losses thru a valve
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:26 am
Hi hoping somone can help me understand how to sort out my problem.
We need to insert a sleeve type valve into an air line,either once or possibly at each 20m hose end, so there could be up to 10 valves/hoses in line.
The sleeve valve will create turbulent flow and a restriction, i am trying to work out how much of a restriction, based on the idea that the restriction(s) will be accumulative if more than 1 valve is installed, and there will be a maximum no of valves/ hoses that can be used before there is a performance issue with the air tool.
From looking at the calculator i understand i need to input data, but unsure what set-up is needed to get the input data.
I have at my disposal air receivers and compressors of various size , plus the 1" (25mm) flexible hose the system is based on, plus availability of pressure guage / swiths solenoids and timing devices.
In the workplace where this will be used the compressors are huge and feed in via 6" steel pipes to 1" outlets.
So can you suggest a test setup so that i can get the data to use the calculator, or have i lost the plot.
Thanks in anticipation.
We need to insert a sleeve type valve into an air line,either once or possibly at each 20m hose end, so there could be up to 10 valves/hoses in line.
The sleeve valve will create turbulent flow and a restriction, i am trying to work out how much of a restriction, based on the idea that the restriction(s) will be accumulative if more than 1 valve is installed, and there will be a maximum no of valves/ hoses that can be used before there is a performance issue with the air tool.
From looking at the calculator i understand i need to input data, but unsure what set-up is needed to get the input data.
I have at my disposal air receivers and compressors of various size , plus the 1" (25mm) flexible hose the system is based on, plus availability of pressure guage / swiths solenoids and timing devices.
In the workplace where this will be used the compressors are huge and feed in via 6" steel pipes to 1" outlets.
So can you suggest a test setup so that i can get the data to use the calculator, or have i lost the plot.
Thanks in anticipation.