Loss of Head in Bended Pipes

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What the relationship between the radius and the deflection angle and concentrated loss head, especially for bended large pipes when the fluid is water.

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  1. Good suppliers generally provide a frictional coefficient (K factor) for all of their fittings. These are different for all makers, fittings, sizes  and angles. Use these values in your model, and it will give you pretty good indication of hydraulic performance.

  3. The best source for this is DS Miller Internal Flow Systems. This has a lot on standard and non standard fittings that can have a K factor derived from one of the many charts.

  5. Head Losses, caused by bends, elbows, joints, valves etc., in pipelines are sometimes more important than the lossses due to pipe friction but the name is conventional. In almost all cases the minor loss is determined by experiment.

    The problem of Bends has been thoroughly investigated and many of interesting facts have been discovered. For example, when a fluid passes around a bend (viscous/turbulent flow) a condition called secondary flow will be established: a rotating motion (due to the centrifugal force combined with the frictional resistance of the pipe walls) at right angles to the pipe axis which is superimposed on the main motion in the axis direction.

    The total loss is equal to the sum of the excess loss in downstream tangent, the loss due to curvature (​radius, deflection ​angle) and loss in bend due to length.

    To clarify the prolem, I suggest for you to read chapter two of the book: "Flow of fluids through valves , fittings , and pipe " / Crane Co  London : Crane Co., - Technical paper. No. 410 M, . 1985.

    Regards

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  7. Tha Hazen-Williams Equation is used for the calculations to generate head loss of fluids in pipe.  Here's a link in the Engineering Toolbox to the formula:  http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/hazen-williams-water-d_797.html

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    1. Hazen Williams is a friction calculation. head loss around a bend is a momentum change and so it is not applicable