FLUID FRICTION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS

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Description

The present set-up is designed to study the friction headlosses through pipes, fittings, and flow metering devices.Four different ID sizes smooth pipes and one artificiallyroughened pipe is connected in parallel. A valvearrangement is provided to operate the one pipe at atime. Various types of fitting are also fitted with pressuretaps to conduct the experiment. Venturi meter, orificemeter and pitot tube also accompanies the set-up. Tomeasure the pressure difference across the eachfitting,pressure taps are taken to manometer with help of nonspillquick release couplings. Present set-up is selfcontainedwater re-circulating unit, provided with a sumptank, centrifugal pump etc. Water is pumped by means ofcentrifugal pump and passing through the selected testsections, it returns back to the sump which make thesystem re-circulating type. Flow of water is divertedeither to measuring tank or sump tank with the means ofa flow diverter, when needed. Flow control valve and bypassvalve are fitted in water line to conduct theexperiment on different flow rates. Flow rate of water ismeasured with the help of measuring tank withpiezometer and stopwatch. The supplied set-up iscomplete in all respect. Only water supply and electricitysupply is to be provided by the end user for running theset-up.