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Pump is a most common equipment used in a chemical plant to transfer fluid from one location to another. This article shows how to do pump sizing calculation to
determine di erential head required to be generated by pump based on suction and discharge conditions.
Suction Pressure
Pressure at pump suction is calculated as following
where,
Pstatic
where, h1 is height of liquid above pump suction, SG is specific gravity of liquid, is liquid density (kg/m) and g is gravitational constant (9.81).
Pfriction
PPipe is pressure drop in a pipe due to single phase fluid flow (https://cheguide.com/2015/08/single-phase-fluid-flow-pressure-drop/). PFittings is pressure drop due to pipe
fittings, which can be calculated based on 2-K & 3-K method (https://cheguide.com/2015/09/pipe-fitting-losses/).
Discharge Pressure
Pressure at pump discharge is calculated as following
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where,
Pstatic
Differential Head
Di erential head required to be generated by pump is calculated as following.
Hydraulic Power
Hydraulic power is calculated as following.
NPSH Available
Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH) available is calculated as following.
Pump curve and system curve can be fitted into a second order polynomial. Operating point is calculated by solving these equations for positive roots.
Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet for Pump Sizing Calculation (https://cheguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Pump_Sizing_Calculation.xlsx)
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