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This document contains a summary of tutorial problems from a fluid mechanics course. It includes 5 problems dealing with flow rates and properties in pipes, nozzles, and orifices. Key details provided include flow rates, diameters, velocities, and pressures at different points in systems involving converging and diverging pipes, venturi meters, tanks discharging through orifices, and branched pipeline networks.

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Tutorial Chapter 03 - Questions

This document contains a summary of tutorial problems from a fluid mechanics course. It includes 5 problems dealing with flow rates and properties in pipes, nozzles, and orifices. Key details provided include flow rates, diameters, velocities, and pressures at different points in systems involving converging and diverging pipes, venturi meters, tanks discharging through orifices, and branched pipeline networks.

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CEB 1053 Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics Jan 2022

Tutorial 3
Chapter 3

1. The jet of water is initially 12 cm in diameter and when directed vertically upwards
reaches a maximum height of 20 m. Assuming that the jet remains circular
determine the rate of water flowing and the diameter of the jet at a height of 10 m.
[0.224 m3/s, 14.27 cm]

2. A pipe AB carries water and tapers uniformly from a diameter of 0.1 m at A to 0.2
m at B over a length of 2 m. Pressure gauges are installed at A, B and also at C, the
midpoint of AB. If the pipe centerline slopes upwards from A to B at an angle of
30o and the pressures recorded at A and B are 2.0 and 2.3 bar, respectively,
determine the flow through the pipe and pressure recorded at C neglecting all
losses. [0.0723 m3/s, 2.29 bar]

3. A venturi meter is constructed from a pipe with a diameter of 300 mm. The venturi
has a throat diameter of 100 mm and a discharge coefficient of 0.98. A mercury U-
tube was used to measure the difference of head between the pipe inlet and the
throat at points 0.6 m apart. The connections to the U-tube are filled with water. If
the mercury gage reading was 760 mm, find the volumetric flow rate through the
pipe. [116.2 L/s]

4. A closed tank partially filled with water discharges through an orifice of 12.5 mm
diameter and has a coefficient of discharge of 0.7. If air is pumped into the upper
part of the tank, determine the pressure required to produce a discharge of 36
dm3/min when the water surface is 0.9 m above the outlet.
[15.7 kPa]

5. As shown in Figure below, a pipeline system. Water flows through pipe AB and
pipe BC, and branch out into two pipes, pipe CD and pipe CE. Pipe CE carries one-
third of the flow in pipe AB. Some of the flow properties are given in TABLE.
TABLE: Flow properties.
Pipe Velocity, ms-1 Diameter, m
AB 3.0 1.2 D
BC 1.5
CD 0.8
CE 2.5 C
A B

E
CEB 1053 Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics Jan 2022

Determine:

a) The velocity of water in pipe BC.

b) The volumetric flow rate of water in pipe CD.

c) The diameter of pipe CE.

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