Mass flow rate Definition and 89 Threads

I have a motorcycle engine on a test stand and I need a way to measure the mass flow rate into the engine. It is currently carburated. I had two ideas off the top of my head. 1) build a venturi, and measure the pressure drop to figure out the velocity and therefore the mass flow rate...

Homework Statement Helium gas flows through a well-insulated nozzle at steady state. The temperature and the velocity at the inlet are 550°R and 150 ft/s, respectively. At the exit, the temperature is 400°R and the pressure is 40 lbf/in2. The area of the exit is 0.0085 ft2. Using the ideal gas...

Homework Statement Air expands through a turbine from 8 bar, 960 K to 1 bar, 450 K. The inlet velocity is small compared to the exit velocity of 90 m/s, The turbine operates at a steady state and develops a power output of 2500 kW. Heat transfer between the turbine and it's surroundings and...

Homework Statement Air enters aone-inlet, one-exit contreol volume at 6 bar, 500K and 30m/s through a flow area of 28cm3. At the exit the pressure is 3 bar, the temperature is 456.5 K and the velocity is 300 m/s. The air behaves as an ideal gas. For steady state operation determine a) the...

Homework Statement A pump steadily delivers water through a hose terminated by a nozzle. The exit of the nozzle has a diameter of 0.6 cm and is located 10 m above the pump inlet pipe, which has a diameter of 1.2 cm. The pressure is equal to 1 bar at both the inlet and the exit, and the...

Homework Statement Inlet Average Velocity at Inlet = 2.50 m/s Pressure Abs. = 100 Kpa Elev = 2.00 m Inlet tube diameter 12.0 cm Water density 997 kg/m^3 Outlet Average velocity at outlet = 8.00 m/s Elevation = 2.00m a.) Calculate mass flow rate through the pump b.) w/ an outlet pressure of...

The Mass Flow Rate in a water flow system determined by collecting the discharge over a timed interval is 0.2 kg/s. The scales used can be read to the nearest 0.05kg and stop watch is accurate to 0.2 s. Estimate the precision with which the flow rate can be calculated for time intervals of a.)...

Hi all, I have a question regarding the mass flow rate of air through a pipe. On paper, it looks like temperature and pressure effect the mass flow rate but I can't rationalize it in my head. Here's what I got: Goal: Calculate the actual mass flow rate of let's say, CH4 through a...

Homework Statement a gas turbine is designed to produce 3000hp when using air at a maximum inlet temperature of 650k and assuming a heat loss of 70 kj/s. if the exhaust temperature is desired to be no greater than 200 degrees celsius, determine the mass flow rate of air required. Homework...

Homework Statement An experimental power plant at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii generates electricity from the temperature gradient of the ocean. The surface and deep-water temperatures are 25°C and 7°C respectively. The cold water that enters the plant leaves it at a...

Hi, how do i work this one out? The mass flow rate of a fluid flowing through a section of pipe with a diameter of 38mm at a flow velocity of 5ms-1 with a specific volume of 0.00109 m3/kg is? Thanks,

Hey guys, Ive got a little stuck calculating the mass flow rate of a choked flow through a de laval nozzle. I have been given a formula to use for theoretical max and experimental but they seem to be SO far apart, I am sure I am missing something. Given data: Density of water 1000...

A natural draught cooling tower is designed to have a 3% loss of the mass of the water entering the tower by evaporation into the atmosphere. Atmospheric air enters the tower at a volume flow rate of 4 m^3/s a temp of 10C and a relative humidity of 50%. Air leaves the tower in a saturated...

Homework Statement Calculate the mass flow rate of blood (of den- sity 1 g/cm3) in an aorta with a cross-sectional area of 2 cm2 if the flow speed is 43 cm/s . Answer in units of g/s. Homework Equationsm=pAv The Attempt at a SolutionHey guys! I can tell that this is a very...

1. In an air conditioning unit fresh air at 10°C is mixed with warm air at 30°C. If the mass flowrate ratio of warm to fresh air is 1.6, estimate the temperature at which the mixed air leaves the air conditioner. State any assumptions made. and also do you always make the air standard...

Refrigerant-134a is to be cooled by water in a condenser. The refrigerant enters the condenser with a mass flow rate of 6 kg/min at 1 MPa and 70oC and leaves at 35oC. The cooling water enters at 300 kPa and 15oC and leaves at 25oC. Neglecting any pressure drop, determine (a) the mass flow rate...

It's been a long time since I had to do any calculus and longer still since I had to deal with ideal gases but now I'm confronted with both. The problem setup is this: Air is coming into a compressor at a known mass rate, pressure and temp. It's being compressed to fill a known tank...

Homework Statement I am supposed to find the mass flow rate for the two resulting water jets. Homework Equations Bernoulli's equation Mass Continuity equation Momentum equation The Attempt at a Solution I've assumed the two areas for jet A and B to be equal, and used mass...

How should steam quality, mass flow rate, temperature and pressure of the steam be optimized in order to have the most out of turbine? I mean which ones have be to be higher? Also when they design turbine, do they design it based on the properties of the steam or they change the properties of...

(a) Is it true that if the mass flow rate of a gas is low, say 2g/s (grams per second), the friction losses and other losses in the piping will be negligible? (b) If it is true that losses in the piping are negligible, is it the Euler's dimensionless number that we can use to prove this...

Hello, I have some physics homework and I'm not looking for the answers. Rather, the textbook I currently use does not seem to be doing a good job (in my opinion) in explaining the topics. If anyone has seen some of these questions before and know what textbook they are used in, please let me...

Hello Everyone, I am Mayur I am working on a system, in the system there is one diffuser through which exhaust gases at 3000K are flowing at a rate of 170Kg/s. The material of diffuser is Stainless Steel. The diffuser is double walled type with cooling water flowing between the walls. I need...

Homework Statement How can you determine the mass flow rate, given that net power output is 100 MW, of the cooling water if it enters the condenser at 20 C and leaves at 35 C. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I thought that mass flow rate is the same all through...

Hi all, I am designing a pressure relief system for a high pressured gas (air) system. System consists of a highly pressurised gas receiver with PSV mounted driectly on it which vents via tailpipes to atmosphere. I know the max mass flow rate out of the container I know the back pressure...

hi how to find air mass flow rate in jet engine? we are using thrust/Isp equation to find the mass flow rate for rocket equation. is that any formula available for finding the mass flow rate in jet engine

Hi I am designing a heat exchanger. I know the mass flow rate required for cooling. I have calculated the pressure drop for current design. How do I work out if the size if the heat exchanger can handle the flow rate ? Does the mass flow rate depend on the size of the heat exchanger tubes ...

hi all, First all my disipline is not fluids so this is why asking for little help here on the following. Basically i have all the required information but i can't seem to figure out how the answer to the mass flow rate of an orifice is obatained, its doing my head in, if anyone could...

What would be the effect on a choked mass flow rate if there were fluctuations in the downstream pressure? Thanks

I want to clarify this because I'm still not sure how to find the mass flow rate, for instance from a rocket. I still puzzled from the formula that describes the mass flow rate which is \frac{dv}{dt}. This the formula that I'm currently looking over but I'm not sure if its this formula to find...

Homework Statement see attachment Homework Equations Av=dV/dt mass flow rate =roe*dV/dt The Attempt at a Solution the velocity at point c is 50m/s and the area of the opening is 0.04m^2. (50m/s)(0.04m^2)(1000kg/m^3)=2000Kg/s

Mass is the product of density and volume. Mass flow rate is the product density, velocity, and cross-sectional area. (It's the derivative of mass with respect to time.) Bare with the syntax please... Looking at a sphere within a larger sphere, the volume of the difference is...

Homework Statement Adiabatic Steam turbine produces 4000 kW Steam is fed at 21 bar/475 deg C Exhaust is saturated steam (P=0.1bar) Exhaust is fed into condenser where it is cooled to 30 deg C Problem asks for flow rate of cooling water supplied to condensener if water enters at 15 deg C...

Homework Statement The aorta carries blood away from the heart at a speed of about 40 cm/s and has a radius of approx. 1.1cm. The aorta branches eventually into a large number of tiny capillaries that distribute the blood to the various body organs. In a capillary, the blood speed is approx...

If I know air is flowing through a tube with diameter of 40 cm at 18 m/s, with P=1 atm, T=32 C how do I find the mass flow rate..thank you

A pressurized cylindrical tank, 5.0 m in diameter, contains water which emerges from the pipe at point C, with velocity 29 m/s. Point A is 10 m above point B and point C is 3 m above point B. The area of the pipe at point B is 0.08 m^2 and the pipe narrows to an area of 0.04 m^2 at point C...

Steam enters a turbine at 3 mpa and 450 c, expands in a reversible adaibatic process, (KE and PE are negligible) and exhausts at 10 kpa. The power output of the turbine is 800 kW. What is the mass flow rate? I did the problem but I don't know if the anwser is correct and wanted to check...

Consider a water pump that receives liquid water at 15C and 100kPa, and delevers it to a same diameter short pipe having a nozzle with exit diameter of .01m to the atmosphere at 100 kPa. Neglect KE in pipes and assume constant internal energy u for water. Find exit velocity and mass flow rate if...

Hi all, I've been asked to search for a way, cost isn't that big of an issue, to measure flow rate in real-time of small, fast, abrasive particles (AlO2). These particles are, on average, 50 microns in diameter, and are shot out of a nozzle, itself just a bit bigger than 50 microns...

If subsonic flow is accelerated in a converging duct to mach 1 and then the duct is further converged, choked flow will occur. Will flow at the exit of the duct be compressed as the volume flow rate is decreasing but the mass flow rate has to remain the same.