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Friction Losses in Hose.-In the above table the volumes of water discharged per jet were for stated pressures at the play-pipe.

In providing for this pressure due allowance is to be made for friction losses in each hose, according to the streams of greatest discharge which are to be used.

The loss of pressure or its equivalent loss of head (h) in the hose may be found by the formula h =

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In this formula, as ordinarily used, for friction per 100 ft. of 2-in. hose there are the following constants: 21⁄2 in. diameter of hose d = .20833 ft.; length of hose = 100 ft., and 2g = 64.4. The variables are: v velocity in feet per second; h = loss of head in feet per 100 ft. of hose; m = a coefficient found by experiment; the velocity v is found from the given discharges of the jets through the given diameter of hose.

Head and Pressure Losses by Friction in 100-ft. Lengths of Rubber-lined Smooth 21⁄2-in. Hose.

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These frictions are for given volumes of flow in the hose and the velocities respectively due to those volumes, and are independent of size of nozzle. The changes in nozzle do not affect the friction in the hose if there is no change in velocity of flow, but a larger nozzle with equal pressure at the nozzle augments the discharge and velocity of flow, and thus materially increases the friction loss in the hose.

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Loss of Pressure (p) and Head (h) in Rubber-lined Smooth 2-in. Hose may be found approximately by the formulæ p = and h = in which p = pressure lost by friction, in pounds per square inch; 1= length of hose in feet; q = gallons of water discharged per minute; d= diam. of the hose in inches, 21⁄2 in.; h = frictionhead in feet. The coefficient of d5 would be decreased for rougher hose.

The loss of pressure and head for a 1-in. stream with power to reach a height of 80 ft. is, in each 100 ft. of 2-in. hose, approximately 20 lbs., or 45 ft. net, or, say, including friction in the hydrant, ft. loss of head for each

foot of hose.

If we change the nozzles to 14 or 13% in. diameter, then for the same 80 ft. height of stream we increase the friction losses on the hose to approximately 2 ft. and 1 ft. head, respectively, for each foot-length of hose.

These computations show the great difficulty of maintaining a high stream through large nozzles unless the hose is very short, especially for a gravity or direct-pressure system.

This single 1-in. stream requires approximately 56 lbs pressure, equivalent to 129 ft. head, at the play-pipe, and 45 to 50 ft. head for each 100 ft. length of smooth 2-in. hose, so that for 100, 200, and 300 ft. of hose we must have available heads at the hydrant or fire-engine of 106, 156, and 206 ft.. respectively. If we substitute 14-in. nozzles for same height of stream we must have available heads at the hydrants or engine of 185, 255 and 325 ft., respectively, or we must increase the diameter of a portion at least of the long hose and save friction-loss of head.

Rated Capacities of Steam Fire-engines, which is perhaps one third greater than their ordinary rate of work at fires, are substantially as follows:

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Pressures required at Nozzle and at Pump,with Quantity and Pressure of Water Necessary to throw Water Various Distances through Different-sized Nozzlesusing 2%1⁄2-inch Rubber Hose and Smooth Nozzles. (From Experiments of Ellis & Leshure, Fanning's "Water Supply.")

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*For greater length of 2-inch hose the increased friction can be obtained by noting the differences between the above given pressure at nozzle and " pressure at pump or hydrant with 100 feet of hose." For instance, if it requires at hydrant or pump eight pounds more pressure than it does at nozzle to overcome the friction when pumping through 100 feet of 21⁄2-inch hose (using 1-inch nozzle, with 40-pound pressure at said nozzle) then it requires 16-pounds pressure to overcome the friction in forcing through 200 feet of same size hose.

Decrease of Flow due to Increase of Length of Hose. (J. R. Freeman's Experiments, Trans. A. S. C. E. 1889.)-If the static pres sure is 80 lbs. and the hydrant-pipes of such size that the pressure at the hydrant is 70 lbs., the hose 21⁄2 in. nominal diam., and the nozzle 1% in. diam., the height of effective fire-stream obtainable and the quantity in gallons per minute will be:

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With 500 ft. of smoothest and best rubber-lined hose, if diameter be exactly 21⁄2 in., effective height of stream will be 39 ft. (177 gals.); if diameter be in. larger, effective height of stream will be 46 ft. (192 gals.)

THE SIPHON.

The Siphon is a bent tube of unequal branches,"open at both ends, and is used to convey a liquid from a higher to a lower level, over an intermediate point higher than either. Its parallel branches being in a vertical plane and plunged into two bodies of liquid whose upper surfaces are at different levels, the fluid will stand at the same level both within and without each branch of the tube when a vent or small opening is made at the bend. If the air be withdrawn from the siphon through this vent, the water will rise in the branches by the atmospheric pressure without, and when the two columns unite and the vent is closed, the liquid will flow from the upper reservoir as long as the end of the shorter branch of the siphon is below the surface of the liquid in the reservoir.

If the water was free from air the height of the bend above the supply level might be as great as 33 feet.

If A = area of cross-section of the tube in square feet, H= the difference in level between the two reservoirs in feet, D the density of the liquid in pounds per cubic foot, then ADH measures the intensity of the force which causes the movement of the fluid, and V = √2gH = 8.02 WH is the theoretical velocity, in feet per second, which is reduced by the loss of head for entry and friction, as in other cases of flow of liquids through pipes. In the case of the difference of level being greater than 33 feet, however, the velocity of the water in the shorter leg is limited to that due to a height of 33 feet, or that due to the difference between the atmospheric pressure at the entrance and the vacuum at the bend.

Leicester Allen (Am. Mach., Nov. 2, 1893) says: The supply of liquid to a siphon must be greater than the flow which would take place from the discharge end of the pipe, provided the pipe were filled with the liquid, the supply end stopped, and the discharge end opened when the discharge end is left free, unregulated, and unsubmerged.

To illustrate this principle, let us suppose the extreme case of a siphon having a calibre of 1 foot, in which the difference of level, or between the point of supply and discharge, is 4 inches. Let us further suppose this siphon to be at the sea-level, and its highest point above the level of the supply to be 27 feet. Also suppose the discharge end of this siphon to be unregulated, unsubmerged. It would be inoperative because the water in the longer leg would not be held solid by the pressure of the atmosphere against it, and it would therefore break up and run out faster than it could be replaced at the inflow end under an effective head of only 4 inches.

Long Siphons.-Prof. Joseph Torrey, in the Amer. Machinist, describes a long siphon which was a partial failure.

The length of the pipe was 1792 feet. The pipe was 3 inches diameter, and rose at one point 9 feet above the initial level. The final level was 20 feet below the initial level. No automatic air valve was provided. The highest point in the siphon was about one third the total distance from the pond and nearest the pond. At this point a pump was placed, whose mission was to fill the pipe when necessary. This siphon would flow for about two hours and then cease, owing to accumulation of air in the pipe. When in full operation it discharged 43% gallons per minute. The theoretical discharge from such a sized pipe with the specified head is 55% gallons per minute.

Siphon on the Water-supply of Mount Vernon, N. Y. (Eng'g News, May 4, 1893.)-A 12-inch siphon, 925 feet long, with a maximum lift of 22.12 feet and a 45° change in alignment, was put in use in 1892 by the New York City Suburban Water Co., which supplies Mount Vernon, N. Y. At its summit the siphon crosses a supply main, which is tapped to charge the siphon.

The air-chamber at the siphon is 12 inches by 16 feet long. A 1⁄2-inch tap and cock at the top of the chamber provide an outlet for the collected air. It was found that the siphon with air-chamber as desc.ibed would run until 125 cubic feet of air had gathered, and that this took place only half as soon with a 14-foot lift as with the full lift of 22.12 feet. The siphon will operate about 12 hours without being recharged, but more water can be gotten over by charging every six hours. It can be kept running 23 hours out of 24 with only one man in attendance. With the siphon as described above it is necessary to close the valves at each end of the siphon to recharge it.

It has been found by weir measurements that the discharge of the siphon before air accumulates at the summit is practically the same as through a straight pipe.

MEASUREMENT OF FLOWING WATER.

Piezometer.-If a vertical or oblique tube be inserted into a pipe containing water under pressure, the water will rise in the former, and the vertical height to which it rises will be the head producing the pressure at the point where the tube is attached. Such a tube is called a piezometer or pressure measure. If the water in the piezometer falls below its proper level it shows that the pressure in the main pipe has been reduced by an obstruction between the piezometer and the reservoir. If the water rises above its proper level, it indicates that the pressure there has been increased by an obstruction beyond the piezometer.

If we imagine a pipe full of water to be provided with a number of piezometers, then a line joining the tops of the columns of water in them is the hydraulic grade-line.

Pitot Tube Gauge.-The Pitot tube is used for measuring the velocity of fluids in motion. It has been used with great success in measuring the flow of natural gas. (S. W. Robinson, Report Ohio Geol. Survey, 1890.) (See also Van Nostrand's Mag., vol. xxxv.) It is simply a tube so bent that a short leg extends into the current of fluid flowing from a tube, with the plane of the entering orifice opposed at right angles to the direction of the current. The pressure caused by the impact of the current is transmitted through the tube to a pressure-gauge of any kind, such as a column of water or of mercury, or a Bourdon spring-gauge. From the pressure thus indicated and the known density and temperature of the flowing gas is obtained the head corresponding to the pressure, and from this the velocity. In a modification of the Pitot tube described by Prof. Robinson, there are two tubes inserted into the pipe conveying the gas, one of which has the plane of the orifice at right angles to the current, to receive the static pressure plus the pressure due to impact; the other has the plane of its orifice parallel to the current, so as to receive the static pressure only. These tubes are connected to the legs of a U tube partly filled with mercury, which then registers the difference in pressure in the two tubes, from which the velocity may be calculated. Comparative tests of Pitot tubes with gasmeters, for measurement of the flow of natural gas, have shown an agreement within 3%.

The Venturi Meter, invented by Clemens Herschel, and described in a pamphlet issued by the Builders' Iron Foundry of Providence, R. I., is named from Venturi, who first called attention, in 1796, to the relation between the velocities and pressures of fluids when flowing through converging and diverging tubes.

It consists of two parts-the tube, through which the water flows, and the recorder, which registers the quantity of water that passes through the tube.

The tube takes the shape of two truncated cones joined in their smallest diameters by a short throat-piece. At the up-stream end and at the throat there are pressure-chambers, at which points the pressures are taken.

The action of the tube is based on that property which causes the small section of a gently expanding frustum of a cone to receive, without material resultant loss of head, as much water at the smallest diameter as is discharged at the large end, and on that further property which causes the pressure of the water flowing through the throat to be less, by virtue of its greater velocity, than the pressure at the up-stream end of the tube, each pressure being at the same time a function of the velocity at that point and of the hydrostatic pressure which would obtain were the water motionless within the pipe.

The recorder is connected with the tube by pressure-pipes which lead to it from the chambers surrounding the up-stream end and the throat of the tube. It may be placed in any convenient position within 1000 feet of the tube. It is operated by a weight and clockwork,

The difference of pressure or head at the entrance and at the throat of the meter is balanced in the recorder by the difference of level in two columns of mercury in cylindrical receivers, one within the other. The inner carries a float, the position of which is indicative of the quantity of water flowing through the tube. By its rise and fall the float varies the time of contact between an integrating drum and the counters by which the successive readings are registered.

There is no limit to the sizes of the meters nor the quantity of water that may be measured. Meters with 24-inch, 36-inch, 48-inch, and even 20-foot tubes can be readily made.

Measurement by Venturi Tubes. (Trans. A. S. C. E., Nov., 1887, and Jan., 1888.)-Mr. Herschel recommends the use of a Venturi tube, inserted in the force-main of the pumping engine, for determining the quantity of water discharged. Such a tube applied to a 24-inch main has a total length of about 20 feet. At a distance of 4 feet from the end nearest the engine the inside diameter of the tube is contracted to a throat having a diameter of about 8 inches. A pressure-gauge is attached to each of two chambers, the one surrounding and communicating with the entrance or main pipe, the other with the throat. According to experiments made upon two tubes of this kind, one 4 in. in diameter at the throat and 12 in. at the entrance, and the other about 36 in. in diameter at the throat and 9 feet at its entrance, the quantity of water which passes through the tube is very nearly the theoretical discharge through an opening having an area equal to that of the throat, and a velocity which is that due to the difference in head shown

by the two gauges. Mr. Herschel states that the coefficient for these two widely-varying sizes of tubes and for a wide range of velocity through the pipe, was found to be within two per cent, either way, of 98%. In other words, the quantity of water flowing through the tube per second is expressed within two per cent by the formula W = 0.98 × AX √2gh, in which A is the area of the throat of the tube, h the head, in feet, corresponding to the difference in the pressure of the water entering the tube and that found at the throat, and g = 32.16.

Measurement of Discharge of Pumping-engines by Means of Nozzles. (Trans. A. S. M. E., xii. 575).-The measurement of water by computation from its discharge through orifices, or through the nozzles of fire-hose, furnishes a means of determining the quantity of water delivered by a pumping-engine which can be applied without much difficulty. John R. Freeman, Trans. A. S. C. E., Nov., 1889, describes a series of experi ments covering a wide range of pressures and sizes, and the results showed that the coefficient of discharge for a smooth nozzle of ordinary good form was within one half of one per cent, either way, of 0.977; the diameter of the nozzle being accurately calipered, and the pressures being determined by means of an accurate gauge attached to a suitable piezometer at the base of the play-pipe.

In order to use this method for determining the quantity of water discharged by a pumping-engine, it would be necessary to provide a pressurebox, to which the water would be conducted, and attach to the box as many nozzles as would be required to carry off the water. According to Mr. Freeman's estimate, four 14-inch nozzles, thus connected, with a pressure of 80 lbs. per square inch, would discharge the full capacity of a two-and-ahalf-million engine. He also suggests the use of a portable apparatus with a single opening for discharge, consisting essentially of a Siamese nozzle, so-called, the water being carried to it by three or more lines of fire-hose.

To insure reliability for these measurements, it is necessary that the shutoff valve in the force-main, or the several shut-off valves, should be tight, so that all the water discharged by the engine may pass through the nozzles. Flow through Rectangular Orifices. (Approximate. See p. 556.) CUBIC FEET OF WATER DISCHARGED PER MINUTE THROUGH AN ORIFICE ONE INCH SQUARE, UNDER ANY HEAD OF WATER FROM 3 TO 72 INCHES. For any other orifice multiply by its area in square inches. a. Q' cu. ft. per min.; a = area in sq. in.

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Measurement of an Open Stream by Velocity and Crosssection. Measure the depth of the water at from 6 to 12 points across the stream at equal distances between. Add all the depths in feet together and divide by the number of measurements made; this will be the average depth of the stream, which multiplied by its width will give its area or crosssection. Multiply this by the velocity of the stream in feet per minute, and the result will be the discharge in cubic feet per minute of the stream.

The velocity of the stream can be found by laying off 100 feet of the bank and throwing a float into the middle, noting the time taken in passing over the 100 ft. Do this a number of times and take the average; then, dividing

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