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.
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A Process Associates proprietary correlation reflecting typical "old" piping
roughness is used. The correlation is derived from refinery data for steel piping in
"clean" gas and liquid services.