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    Vacuum Vessel Design

    I was wondering about design calculations for vacuum tanks loaded on trucks and their associated vacuum line accessories. At uni, I only ever worked on pressure vessels, and all calculations were based on a higher internal pressure than their surrounding atmosphere. Will these equations be the...
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    Fluid Flow calculations

    Thanks alot for that. I now have a new problem. I need to compare two pumps, and one will suck up water into the vacuum tank the same way as you would with drinking through a straw, it would all be liquid in the pipe. The other pump cannot create enough vacuum in the tank to lift only water in...
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    Fluid Flow calculations

    I' looking at calculating the theoretical flow rate of water through a vertical pipe. This pipe is modeling the suction pipe of a vacuum truck. I'm doing this in an attempt to prove a higher vacuum in the tank is better than a higher flow rate of air being removed from the tank to create the...

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