Pipe Sizing for Single Phase Incompressible Flow
 | The pipe sizing procedure presented here applies to Newtonian fluids which are incompressible and single phase in isothermal and steady-state flow situations. The friction factor is calculated rigorously from the original Colebrook equation. Piping pressure drop and rating are treated elsewhere. |
| A more comprehensive and powerful version of this procedure is available online through Process Associate's clients gateway (password required). WWW-based and Stand-alone versions of the full program for Windows 3.1x/95/NT and Unix operating systems are available through their coordination office. The full version of this procedure is part of their Process Designer® line of intelligent software. |
| For your convenience, The input form below has several multiple choice fields {using radio buttons} with one field already selected as default. Please make sure that you always mark the proper button corresponding to your input if it is different from the default. |
| Flowrate | ||
| Mass Basis | ||
| Volume Basis | ||
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| Fluid's Physical Properties | ||
| Density | ||
| Viscosity | ||
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| Piping | ||
| Length | ||
| Allowable | Pressure drop | |
| Head loss | ||
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| Condition | New/clean | (Server will calculate roughness) |
| Fouled, rel. roughness | ||
| Fouled, typical(1) | (Server will calculate roughness) | |
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| Report: | ||
| Pipe inside diameter in | ||
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