Thanks for the help on this guys. And thanks for the link Zeusfaber, that will be helpful. I was initially approaching the problem as desertfox has described. The reason why I was posted here was to get other opinions and I thank you guys for that. I didn't think of doing this problem...
I have already added lifting lugs above the CG of the machine to facilitate balanced lifting. Thanks for the looking out for me though Mike.
Gruntguru, just so I am understanding what you are saying correctly. In scenario 1 we would have the mg (the weight of the machine) acting downward on...
Guys & Gals, I've got a question that I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. I'm in the process of designing a skid that stores a large amount of cable and has the ability to rotate the cable drum in a CW and CCW direction. This skid happens to be constrained to a pretty...
Thank you for bringing up the cavitation point. I wasn't considering cavitation and it is something that I definitely need to consider.
I am curious as to how you got the 3mm orifice diameter. When I use the online calculators or the orifice equation listed about they all show orifice...
When I talk of orifice I mean a simple sharp edge hole in a flat plate. Nozzle is probably the wrong term but I'm meaning a cone that transitions down to the final hole diameter. The thinking is that a sharp edge orifice will wear out pretty fast but maybe if we add smooth transition from the...
Yeah, I'm definitely worried about the orifice washing out fairly quickly. We are moving a lot of volume at high pressures. That's why I was originally thinking about a nozzle instead of an orifice thinking that a nozzle may last a little longer. The choke valves that we use right now are so...
Yeah, I realize that I will never exactly be able to design an orifice that gives me those exact parameters. I should have specified that the important thing that we have to hold is the pressure on the pumps. We can vary the flow rate (pump speed) a little to achieve the pressure that we need...
OK guys and gals, I'm new here but I'm hoping that you guys may be able to help me out. I'm tasked with creating a fixed flow restriction to test our pumps against. I know the pressure required, the flow rate, the inlet pipe size, etc. Basically I know everything I just need to calculate what...
