I forgot, maybe the minimum suction pressure can't go below -14.7 so this
would mean considerably less flow than 1500.
I was trying to find out what maximum draft on a fire pump was last
night, gave up
and decided to watch the Indians lose. Again. Anyone know the answer?
I'd like either -
the Indians <or > that draft thing.
Where are the academics when we need some hydraulic theory?
Bill Brooks
William N. Brooks, P.E.
Brooks Fire Protection Engineering Inc.
372 Wilett Drive
Severna Park, MD 21146-1904
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ralphy
Henderson
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 1:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Pump, Tank, 1000 ft suction line.....
No, I don't need a PC to do the calc but I'd like for hydra calc to show all
this w/o an additional set. Things like that tend to confuse the AHJ's -
especially hand written things. You would think a multi thousand dollar
program would be able to take the calc from a tank to the pump and to the
system in one report - but it looks like that's not the case.
--- On Tue, 6/7/11, George Church <[email protected]> wrote:
From: George Church <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Pump, Tank, 1000 ft suction line.....
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 4:47 PM
Why not take a piece of paper, write down the length of the run, multiply it
by the FL/ft, and use a calculator to multiply the two and get the friction
loss?
Then correct for any dif in elevation by multiplying the dif x .433.
It really isn't that hard and you really don't need a pc to run a simple
supply calc.
Ok, maybe I should say you SHOULDn'T need a pc....
George L. Church, Jr., CET
Rowe Sprinkler Systems, Inc.
PO Box 407, Middleburg, PA 17842
877-324-ROWE 570-837-6335 fax
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ralphy
Henderson
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 12:29 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Pump, Tank, 1000 ft suction line.....
Bob,
That's kind of what I was getting at. I'll probably just have to submit a
separate calc showing the 150% pump rating through the pump to the tank to
prove the losses are acceptable. Does anyone know if there is a way to do
this in a single calc in hydracalc? I can put in an additional water
'source' but then would have to enter in a static, res, and flow for the
tank to get it to run through the program and these numbers are unknown
(except for static).
Thanks,
RB
--- On Mon, 6/6/11, Bob <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Bob <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Pump, Tank, 1000 ft suction line.....
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, June 6, 2011, 11:05 PM
Ralph,
Looking at this I'm coming up with 20.3 psi loss in 1000' of pipe not
counting fittings and valves.
(4.52*1000.00^1.85)/(140^1.85*6.4^4.85) = .0203 .0203 * 1000 = 20.3. 6.4"
is ID of 6" Tyton Joint Pipe DI. Fittings and valves will increase your
losses. At 1500 gpm you will have .43 psi / ft loss. These numbers will
vary depending on pipe type and ID. As far as how to do it; I think I would
simply run the numbers through the calculation back to the tank. Or better
yet, if there are hydrants fed off of the tank have a flow test performed
and calc back to that point of connection.
Bob Knight, CET III
208-318-3057
www.firebyknight.com
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vince Sabolik
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 4:37 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Pump, Tank, 1000 ft suction line.....
Ralph -
My rough calcs say about 16 psi loss at 100% flow and 34 psi loss at 150%
flow.
Unless this is an elevated tank, or your source is uphill from the pump,
this won't work.
At 06:32 PM 6/6/2011, you wrote:
>at 1000 gpm, you are going to lose about 2 psi per 100' of 6"
>ductile iron pipe. At 1500 gpm, you are going to lose about 5 psi /
>100' of DI pipe. You need to have enough elevation between the tank
>and pump to provide a positive pressure at the suction flange.
>
>On 6/6/2011 3:28 PM, Ralphy Henderson wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>Can someone explain to me how one would go about calculating a fire
>>pump being fed solely from a water storage tank but with a 6" x
>>1,000 ft suction line? I've calculated fire pumps off of tanks that
>>had a small 10 ft. suction lines directly off the tank but never one
>>with this amount of underground line and I'm concerned about making
>>sure friction losses in the suction are properly accounted for. The
>>pump is 75 psi @ 1000 gpm.
>>
>>We use hydracalc, and typically when a fire pump and tank scenario
>>comes up we have only one 'source', the pump, being specified.
>>Would this change in this instance? I guess the main thing I'm
>>concerned about is coming up with a negative pressure at the suction
>>flange due to such a long run.
>>
>>Any help?
>>
>>-RB
>>
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