Questions tagged [pressure]
Questions pertaining to pressurized systems and their applications, from containment to system losses to using as a benchmark for measurement.
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Pneumatic cylinder: Pressure rating
I want to create a Pneumatic cylinder, The purpose is, Inside it will will contain a Nylon piston, and one end will be filled with clay. Cylinder will be closed from either side using end caps, which ...
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Energy required to liquify gaseous oxygen?
Does anyone know where I can find some documentation of a real-world liquification process, and the energy costs?
I can calculate the heat that must be removed from O2 gas to get to liquid, but how ...
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How could you produce large quantities of metallic hydrogen?
Could you somehow crush hydrogen atoms with magnetic fields in order to produce it? Or maybe someday someone will invent a material capable of withstanding 500GPa and we'll have giant machines that ...
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using air pressure as a liquid pump
I have a $100\ \text{psi}, 300\ \text{cfm}$ air compressor that we use for running power tools, I need a way to inject mortar deep into a small opening and was wondering if anyone had experience with ...
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Estimate PSI from pipe diameter and GPM
Many consumer grade pressure washers specify a minimum pressure for the supplied water, which is sometimes well above the low end of household water pressure. Our water pressure is often low and I'm ...
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Reduce and compute flow in self designed pen
I am currently designing a simple pen for drawing with different types of liquid varnishes. My current design has a tip at the bottom side of the pen (blue) and a tank at the top side where the ...
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Can you shape a buoyant object stuck to the bottom of a body of water such that it floats?
I understand that an object, say a closed plastic cube full of air, stuck to the bottom of an aquarium with a smooth glass bottom will not float if you firmly place it such that no water can get ...
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How would a w shaped tunnel system drain water?
My DnD group recently had a scene where we were escaping a tunnel system under a lake. My character used a bag of holding to slow drain the lake until we were at the bottom near the entrance of a ...
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Equivalent Force: Hydraulic rams in H frame machine press
A 100ton H frame machine press can use 1x100 ton ram to exert this amount of force.
Can 3x33 ton rams do the same job if they are applied to same area as the 100ton ram?
Also in relation to a H ...
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How to calculate flowrate of water through a crosssection of pipe?
Assume we have a pipe with a diameter of 10mm. Water is flowing through that pipe and we know that the water pressure at the 'open' end of the pipe is 2 atm. How would one go about calculating the ...
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Does pressure in a centrifugal compressor increase along the path of the flow?
Euler turbomachinery equation doesn't include a term for changes in flow area.
But, an centrifugal impeller (not the volute) has increasing flow area along the path of the flow.
Is the pressure ...
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Calculating Minimum Pipe Pressure Requirement for an Irrigation System
I am setting up an irrigation system for my ranch and I have a hard time calculating the minimum pipe pressure requirements to reduce cost. I need to know the maximum pressure the pipe has to cope ...
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Ceramic pressure measurement - piezoelectrical or capacitive?
Context: I'm writing about an old industrial training facility used for a petrochemical process.
In this training facility, there is a 3-phase separator. On that separator is a pressure measurement. ...
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how to find torque from force due to pressures that change as a function of z
My teacher is very strict about copying his work so I will have to explain it.
We have a wall with two fluids of different constant densities and depths. The wall is 'L' long. The wall has a section ...
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Motor Torque Required in a Reciprocating Compressor
I am working on a Univerity project involving a reciprocating compressor and I am having trouble verifying the motor's torque requirements. I am relatively happy with my calculation method, however, ...
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How to make a 500+ psi water gun staff
I would like to create a life size lego Bionicle Aqua axe(gali nuva Type or gali master of water Type). The problem is unlike The trident in this video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NK6MWt7vpVE&t=...
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Which of these propeller configurations is most efficient?
All propellers shown in the figure above are identical and are operated at identical speeds with four separate (numbered 1 through 4 vertically) configurations illustrated. The physical distance ...
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Liquid delivery to a pump based on viscosity
I have a tank that is filled with a viscous liquid (~3000 CPs). At the bottom of the tank there is a pipe that leads to a gear pump. There is 22" of pipe straight down from the tank followed by a ...
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If an airfoil underwent horizontal loading, would it stiffen the airfoil? [closed]
I am designing a wing for a Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft. I am trying to choose a wingtip winglet for my aircraft. One of the option is a aft-swept wingtip winglet. However, this structure ...
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Is a metal Prince Rupert's drop possible?
Can a Prince Rupert's drop be made of metal instead of glass?
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Why can't I find a small vacuum fryer?
I'm looking for a vacuum fryer and so far the only ones available to buy are large, industrial machines.
Is there some technical consideration that makes small scale machines economically unfeasible?
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Pressure recovery in turbomachinery
Diffusers in turbomachinery are used to transfer some of the kinetic energy of the fluid to pressure energy and to direct the fluid to the ducting/second stage/... I understand this and the mechanism ...
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How to calculate flow rate of water through a pipe?
If a water pipe is 15 mm diameter and the water pressure is 3 bar, assuming the pipe is open ended, is it possible to calculate the flow rate or water velocity in the pipe?
Most of the calculations I ...
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Running a hydraulic pump below minimum RPM
If I had a pressure compensated, hydraulic piston pump, how might the performance look in terms of pressure if I were only looking in the regime of 0 RPM and the minimum ratedRPM?
I.E If a pump was ...
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What types of materials can be tested in a split Hopkinson pressure bar?
A split Hopkinson pressure bar can test different types of specimens, I would like to know what types of materials that are suitable to be tested with this method?
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I cannot properly understand the “pressure” referred to in Bernoulli's Principle despite my efforts
I get that with Bernoulli's Principle an increase in area = a decrease in velocity = an increase in pressure. I also understand the concept of pressure being force per unit area.
My difficulty is with ...
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Need help with reverse engineering a sensor
I have a pressure/temperature sensor for a vehicle, which I decided to tear apart to see exactly how the sensor works.
This sensor as designed by the manufacturer it is meant to be immersed in oil to ...
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Manually Attempting Empirical Measurement of Flour Dough Compressive Strength
I want to make a DIY dough press, so need to know how much pressure I would need to apply. I don't have mechanical engg background, so based on some googling, I think this is what I need to do, but ...
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Strong resin for fibreglass
Is there a binding material that could be reinforced with woven glass fibres cloth for tensile strength, but which offers reasonable containment against high pressure when used minimally? Ie ...
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How to cut a pipe such that water comes out evenly across the length?
I am trying to build a wetland filter for a pond. Basically, you dig a big hole, fill it with rocks (large at bottom, small at the top), and pump water deep under these rocks, so the water slowly ...
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Using a Threaded Rod and Internally Threaded Tube as a Piston Pump
Im looking for a low cost, high pressure pump with good flow/pressure control for an espresso machine (a lot to ask, I know).
My first thought was using a screw-driven piston. This will work, but Im ...
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deformable object squeezing
I have the problem following. There is a deformable sphere with radius r. It goes inside a constriction channel with d*d cross section. Assuming that the sphere volume is constant and the sphere shape ...
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Kinetic energy of a balloon
How do I quantify how much kinetic energy would be released from popping a balloon?
I believe that any additional kinetic energy that results from the balloon will come from it being pressurized, but ...
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Would engineering bricks explode if used to build an oven?
I'm building a pizza oven and, to do so, I bought a whole load of engineering bricks (not these but similar). They've got five holes vertically through them, each hole is 2x6x6.5 cm (80 ml) and the ...
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Understanding Pressure
Ok so what happend is that i started to think about Submarines and why exactly you cannot open the bottom heatch at lets say the Challenger Depth. At least i am pretty sure you cannot do that. Right ?
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Can't Find Regulator for 16G CO2 Cartridge (800 PSI to 400-200PSI)
I am trying to make a Paintball Gun that works off of 16G CO2 Cartridges(800 PSI). I can't find a compact regulator that drops 800 PSI down to 400-200 PSI. If anyone knows of such a regulator could ...
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How does placement of a pressure gauge in a tank of fluid affect the pressure readings?
This is not a real system but rather something I made up to understand how the placement of pressure gauge in a tank takes its readings.
Here’s a diagram of it-
The pressure gauge placed in the ...
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Possible to suck water through manual bilge pump using a transfer pump?
I dug a shallow well (12' deep) on a remote off-grid Florida Property I own. The well is a simple 1-1/4 PVC Sand Point well I hammered in the ground. I then used a rubber coupler to attach a cheap ...
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Sunlight-powered device set to change world: will it work? [closed]
Vast areas of desert sand are being shone on upon by the sun. Now that's some ENERGY!
Using this proposed apparatus:
Sunlight over large area is concentrated on steam chamber, where water turns into ...
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Is there a relationship between temperature and pressure of a refrigerant?
When searching for a pressure temperature relation for a refrigerant a chart appears.
But I was wondering are these charts made by experimenting on the refrigerant or is there a relationship which can ...
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Head loss for T junction diverging water pipes
I am writing to ask for help with a T-junction pipe problem. Attached picture shows the pipe configuration. The schematic shows a large pipe with ID 16.5mm and smaller 4mm ID tubes connected to it. ...
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Explain pressures created by fluid flow through small orifices
So my question is in relation to fluid flow and pressure. In my pictures below you can see that i have two similar situations. Fluid flows in from a large reservoir at a constant rate through a ...
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Part to pierce the valve on a 16g CO2 cartridge and connect to a Solenoid valve
The specific part that I’m after is something that can connect to a solenoid valve and a CO2 cartridge that will break the seal on the end of the CO2 cartridge.
The solenoid valve connection is ...
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How to sanitarily measure vacuum in milk?
I would like to measure the vacuum inside of a tube which will contain air and milk. A vacuum pump attached to the tube will maintain a vacuum of around 15 inHg.
Are there inexpensive sensors I can ...
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Making a radial (only) seal inside a small tube
I'm trying to make a adaptor to fit a nozzle about 5mm wide which only applies pressure radially during insertion. Pushing in a standard O Ring would apply some force axially up or down the inlet due ...
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Using Density Correction Factors for Fans and Blowers
I've been researching fans/blowers and their use in pneumatic systems (particularly conveying systems), and I'm confused by the application of density correction factors. Let me describe a sample ...
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Detect treadle press
I need to detect if a foot treadle has been pressed and send a signal to a Microcontroller unit notifying of that press. What is the best method to achieve this? What kind of sensor can be used and ...
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Hydraulic lift connected to two pistons
I just finished a problem, and got the correct answer, however I am confused on one of the mathematical operations that must be performed in order to get the correct answer.
The problem is as reads: ...
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How can I keep my soda bottle at atmospheric pressure while dispensing the liquid via a sealed system pump?
I am making a "bar bot" and I am trying to figure out a way to dispense soda without it going flat. I am using a bunch of peristaltic pumps:
Which luckily remain sealed at rest. I was ...
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How to quickly equalize pressure in a low pressure container?
Background: This is for a science project I'm creating where I use an airpump connected to a sealed 5gal pail bucket to create a vacuum. That vacuum is then connected to water source to "suck" liquid ...
