Egyptian Academy for Engineering and Advanced Technology

Chemical Engineering Department (spring 2017)

Momentum transfer, CHE 121

Sheet 2
Fluid statics

1. If, by measuring the pressure of the gas in some vessel with the U-tube filled with
mercury ( 13600 kg m 3 ) you got H Hg 80 mm , what is the value for the pressure

in the vessel? What is the value for H H 2O if you replace the U tube with mercury with

the U-tube filled with water ( 1000 kg m 3 )? (Ans. 10.67 kPa, 1.088 m)

2. A pressure gage at elevation 8 m on the side of a tank containing a liquid reads

57.4 KN/m2. Another gage at elevation 5 m reads 80 KN/m2. Compute the specific
weight and density of the liquid. (Ans. 767.92 kg/m3, 7533.3 N/m3)

3. Some skin divers go as deep as 50 m. What is the gage pressure at this depth in fresh
water, and what is the ratio of the absolute pressure at this depth to normal atmospheric
pressure? Assume T = 20C. (Ans. P= 490, P/Patm = 5.83)

4. Somewhere on the earth, the pressure at the sea level is 755 mm Hg, and the
temperature is 32C. There is a camp located on a mountain 2360 m above sea level in
that area.
Calculate the pressure value at the camp:
i) Assuming isothermal conditions (T = const). (579.38 mmHg)
ii) Assuming isentropic conditions (P/ = const, air = 1.4). (573.42 mmHg)

5. As shown, an air space above a long tube is pressurized to 50 kPa vacuum. Water
(15C) from a reservoir fills the tube to a height h. If the pressure in the air space is
changed to 25 kPa vacuum, will h increase or descrease and by how much? Assume
atmospheric pressure is 100 kPa. (Ans. h = 2.55 m)

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6. The loss through equipment X is to be measured by a

differential gage using oil of relative density 0.75 as the
gage fluid. The liquid flowing has a relative density of 1.5.
Find the change in pressure head between A and B for the
deflection of the oil shown in figure.
(Ans. 248.4 mmHg)

7. In the shown figure calculate the

reading of the pressure gage PA in
z = 25 cm
atm. abs., and the reading of the A

manometer x in mm.
(Ans. 103.262 kPa, 46.87 mm) Alcohol
s = 0.8

y = 50cm
cm

Hg

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8. For the stationary fluid shown in Fig the

pressure at point B is 20 kPa greater than at
point A. Determine the specific weight of the
manometer fluid. (Ans. 7100 N/m3 )

9. A tank with an attached manometer contains water at 20C. The atmospheric

pressure is 100 kPa. There is a stopcock located 1 m from the surface of the
water in the manometer. The stopcock is closed, trapping the air in the
manometer, and water is added to the tank to the level of the stopcock. Find
the increase in elevation of the water in the manometer assuming the air in the
manometer is compressed isothermally. (Ans. l = 0.082 m)