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Subject: Pneumatics
Category: Science
Asked by: jamboo-ga
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Posted: 04 Mar 2005 17:29 PST
Expires: 03 Apr 2005 18:29 PDT
Question ID: 484916
How many cubic feet of air will pass through an orphic 0.1875
inches in diameter in one minute?
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Subject: Re: Pneumatics
From: xarqi-ga on 05 Mar 2005 03:10 PST
 
Surely, this depends on the pressure differential, since if there were
none, there would be no flow.
Subject: Re: Pneumatics
From: xarqi-ga on 05 Mar 2005 03:12 PST
 
I'm guessing too that by "orphic", you mean orifice, not some device
found in the Underworld.
Subject: Re: Pneumatics
From: nf1001-ga on 11 Mar 2005 01:20 PST
 
You must specify the medium (eg. air, its temperature and
pressure-meaning density and humidity) and the pressure differential
as well as the orifice area and its flow coifficent.

A simple hole in a thin plate will have a coefficent of .6-.62 whereas
a hole with a rounded entry will have a coefficent of 1.
To simplify using "standard" air density of .075 pounds per cubic
foot, the formula goes as follows-

Square Root of (pressure differential/.075) Times 1096.7 Times the
flow coefficent Times the orifice area in SQUARE FEET = cubic feet per
min.

for example
your orifice is .1875 and I will assume it to be a square edged hole
in a thin plate with a coefficent of .61. Its area will be
PI*(.09375*.09375)=.294525 square inches. .294525/144=.002045313sq ft

pressure differential will be assumed to be 10 inches of water

1096.7*sqrt(10/.075= 12663.6 feet per minite air speed
the orifice area of .002045313*12663.6 = 25.9 theoretical cubic feet per minite
25.9 times the coefficent of .61 = 15.79 cubic feet per minite@ 10in
water pressure differential.

For other pressure differentials just replace the 10 with any other
pressure in inches of water and recalculate.

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