Tank Definition and 691 Threads

Tank Level Monitor! Hey Everybody!...i have a concern!...i need to do a circuit that moniotors me the level of a fluid in a tank...the thing is that i have the design...but i need to count 5 seconds everytime that the liquid gets to the next level...i mean... the tank is empty...you start...

Hello all I wish to simulate hydrogen flow from a high pressure tank 700 bar down to 11 bar via a Pressure relief valve. In practice we notice the hydrogen tank cooling (starting from room temperatures) down drastically as well as the relief valve. My task is to simulate the cooling effect...

Homework Statement A tank contains 90 kg of salt and 2000 L of water. Pure water enters a tank at the rate 12 L/min. The solution is mixed and drains from the tank at the rate 6 L/min. Find the amount of salt in the tank after 1.5 hours. Homework Equations Assorted Calculus stuff...

I have looked everywhere i can think of trying to find information on how to clean a tank that has been used to store water based emulsion. The tank measures 10.5' X 30' and by rough calculation holds around 18,000 gallons of liquid. I took a hard chunk of the material and put a torch to it...

HI i need help for one of my homework problems. http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/290/sp3220080229004426gf6.gif

Homework Statement A tank contains 80 gallons of pure water. A brine solution with 2 lb/gal of salt enters at 2 gal/min, and the well-stirred mixture leaves at the same rate. Find (a) the amount of salt in the tank at any time and (b) the time at which the brine leaving will contain 1 lb/gal...

There are two pipes, Pipe A and Pipe B. Pipe A filled a tank in for minutes less than B does. If both pipes are open the tank is filled in 24 minutes. Find the time A will take if B is closed

Building an experimental washout tank for testing automotive adhesives. Need to calculate the maximum water velocity of the following set-up in the 3" pipe: Vertical 3" pipe approximately 3 meters high with a "T" located towards the bottom with a guillotine type valve attached to a...

Homework Statement I have a cylindrical water tank of mars, where acc. due to gravity= 3.71 The pressure at the surface of the water is 110 kPa, and the depth of the water is 14.5 m The pressure of the air outside the tank is 91 kPa Find the net downward force on the tanks flat...

A village maintains a large tank with an open top, containing water for emergencies. The water can drain from the tank through a hose of diameter 6.15 cm. The hose ends with a nozzle of diameter 2.35 cm. A rubber stopper is inserted into the nozzle. The water level in the tank is kept 7.50 m...

Guys, I need some help. I've designed a container that I plan to use for a starting system that uses gasoline. I'm storing the gas in a sealed container and plan to pressurize the container with compressed air from a compressor. The container is rated for 600 psi and I plan to use a shop air...

I am a little rusty on my differential equations as I haven't seen them in a few years! I am looking for some direction on a question on a first order ODE. I am trying to find the time required to drain a tank that is open to atmosphere. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

A storage tank is a right circular cylinder 20ft long and 8 ft in diameter with its axis horizontal. If the tank is half full of olive oil weighing 57 lb/ft^3, find the work done in emptying it through a pipe that runs from the bottom of the tank to an outlet that is 6 ft above the top of the...

An underground oil storage tank ABCDEFGH is part of an inverted square pyarmid, as shown in the diagram. the complete pyramid has asquare base of side 12 m and height 18 m.the depth of the tank is 12 m. http://haniny.com/haniny/Square_pyramid.gif when the depth of oil in the tank is h...

Tank Problem -- Pump at the END? I will try to post more relevant data if possible but my main issue is this: I have a pump that receives water from a reservoir--so basically a gravity feed into an open-air tank. The tank itself is supposed to feed into a pump (that is located at the very...

The base of a cone-shaped tank is a circle of radius 5 feet, and the vertex of the cone is 12 below the base. The tank is filled to a depth of 7 feet, and water is flowing out of the tank at a rate of 3 cubic feet per minute. Find the rate of change of the depth of the water in the tank.

Homework Statement An underground gasoline tank at 54°F can hold 1100 gallons of gasoline. If the driver of a tanker truck fills the underground tank on a day when the temperature is 82°F, how many gallons, according to his measure on the truck, can he pour in? Assume that the temperature of...

Homework Statement An aquarium tank is 100 cm long, 35 cm wide, and 40 cm deep. It is filled to the top. What is the force of the water on the bottom (100cmX35cm) of the tank? What is the force of the water on the front window (100x40) of the tank? Homework Equations this where i am...

HI, anyone know how to calculate the velocity of a gas escaping through a valve in a rank ? The gas is pressurized at 2psig and I can get the area of the orifice if necessary. Thanks.

Hi everyone! Here's something that has been bothering me for quite some time now: If you detonate an explosive device outside a completely airtight tank, what happens to the air pressure inside? Does the shockwave traveling through the wall of the tank have a notable effect on the pressure inside?

What would the velocity of water be at the end of pipe of inner diameter 1 inch coming from the base of a overhead tank 10 meters high. Ignore the frictional losses. Also please post a formula for the same.

Problem stated A tank (which its area of its corners is negligble) with mass M, moves on a surface with coefficients of friction between the surface and the tank \mu_{s} \mu_{k} (static and kinetic).Rain drops are dropping on the tank with angle \alpha with speed V, the water comes to the tank...

I'm stuck with this problem, can anyone help me please? Two large tanks are connected by a cast iron pipe 50mm in diameter and 50m long. There are eight 60 degree and four 90 degree bends along the length of the pipe. The inlet to and the exit from the pipe are abrupt and the rate of flow of...

Homework Statement A hemi-spherical tank with a 5 foot radius is full of water. Given than water weighs 62.5 pounds per cubic foot, find the work required to pump the water out of the tank Homework Equations Radius = 5 so range will be 0 to 5. Formula should be pi * r^2 for each...

Homework Statement I know with air bubbles in water that they will rise in water because they are lighter and less dense than water. But if you had let's say a tank of water suspended in the air and at the bottom of the tank there were small holes so small that air can go through the holes...

tell me if anyone knows that if we maintain a pressure of 500psi in the tank then what will be itz volume and dimensions

Hi All, I'm a student trainee at the public utilities at where I live. I have been given a task to find information about septic tank design and advanced oxidation. I have exhausted all resources at my library and also the online library. I searched online and found the same redundant...

I am trying to figure out how to equate hole size to pressure loss/time for a closed tank. Here's the scenario: 300 L closed tank Pressurized to 20 psig with air Pressure loss is 1 psi over a time period of 1 hour Temperature is 30 deg. C How can I relate hole size to this pressure...

Homework Statement In a large water tank experiment, water waves are generated with straight, parallel wave fronts, 3.00 m apart. The wave fronts pass through two openings 5.00 m apart in a long board. The end of the tank is 3.00 m beyond the board. Where would you stand, relative to the...

If I have a tank of compressed air with 5% CO2 and 95% air, and I know the flow rate coming out of the tank is 0.01 LPM, how do I determine the number of [moles/L] of CO2 coming out of the tank?

A tank of compressed air of volume 1.0 m^3 is pressurized to 50 atm at T = 273 K. A valve is opened and air is released until the pressure in the tank is 17 atm. How many air molecules were released? I tried this problem using PV = NkT and PV = nRT. I realize the difference in these...

Homework Statement The water tank is open to the atmosphere and has two holes in it, one at 0.80m and the other at 3.6m above the floor on which the tank rests. if the two streams of water strike the floor in the same place, what i the depth of water in the tank. tank height is 5 m...

Homework Statement If you had a tube running from the top of one tank at a lower level to the top of another tank at a higher level. And the water could only flow in one direction towards the higher tank. And the water level in the high tank started to descend. I think the tube would...

Homework Statement The end of a tank containing water is vertical and has the indicated shape (in attached picture). Explain how to approximate the hydrostatic force against the end of the tank by a Riemann sum. Then express the force as an integral and evaluate it. Homework Equations...

Hey, here's a fun problem many of you would probably enjoy trying. I've done it myself, and it truly is a fun problem to do. Here it is: We have an initial amount of 800 gallons in a tank at 8:00 in the morning on any particular day. 35% of that 800 gallon solution is acidic. Spigot A is...

The L-shaped tank shown in Figure 14-33 is filled with water and is open at the top. (a) If d = 5.0 m, what is the force on face A due to the water? N (up) (b) What is the force on face B due to the water? N (right) The Force of water on the face A...

I would like to determine what should be the size and number of pipes that are attached tangent to the cone of a tank. I will very much appreciate it that some one comment on how to approach and calculate it. I am trying to create a whirlpool action with an angular velocity of 1 rpm in a...

Description: You are assigned the design of a cylindrical, pressurized water tank for a future colony on Mars, where the acceleration due to gravity is 3.71 meters per second per second. The pressure at the surface of the water will be 150 kPa, and the depth of the water will be 14.2 meters. The...

I read about incidences of fuel tank explosions in commercial airliners recently. (For example, this http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/14/twa.main/index.html" ). I'm aware of four incidences of fuel tank explosions on commercial airliners. All four were on Boeing airplanes. - The first was in...

Homework Statement A tank full of water has the shape of a parabloid of revolution with shape obtained by rotating a parabola about a vertical axis. a) If its height is 4 ft and the radius at the top is 4 ft, find the work required to pump the water out of the tank. b) After 4000 ft-lb of work...

Homework Statement Figure P9.81 shows a water tank with a valve at the bottom. If this valve is opened, what is the maximum height attained by the water stream coming out of the right side of the tank? Assume that h = 8.0 m, L = 1.50 m, and = 30° and that the cross-sectional area at A is very...

A water tank is in the shape of an inverted cone with depth 10 meters and top radius 8 meters. Water is flowing into the tank at 0.1 cubic meters/min but leaking out at a rate of 0.001h2 cubic meters/min, where h is the depth of the water in the tank in meters. Can the tank ever overflow...

A village maintains a large tank with an open top, containing water for emergencies. The water can drain from the tank through a hose of diameter 6.60cm. the hose ends with a nozzle of diameter 2.20 cm. A rubber stopper is inserted into the nozzle. the water level in the tank is kept 7.50 m...

"A large storage tank, open at the top and filled with water, develops a small hole in its side at a point 16.0m below the water level. If the rate of flow from the leak is 2.50x10^-3 m^3/min, determine; A) The speed at which the water leaves the hole and (B) The diameter of the hole. So I...

I am having trouble setting up this problem. Especially part A of the problem. I think I have a good idea of what to do for part B, but could anyone give me any hints on how to find moles from the given information? A 14.0 cm-diameter compressed-air tank is 40.0 cm tall. The pressure at...

For this problem I don't think I am setting up the linear system right: Two tanks containing 500 gal of salt solution. Pure water pours into the top tank @ 5gal/s. Salt solution pours out of the bottom of the tank and into the tank bellow @ 5 gal/s. There is a drain @ the bottom of the second...

Hey I think I'm missing something fundamental in this problem. The problem reads: a 1 m3 tank initially contains air at 300 kPa, 300K. The air slowly escapes until the pressure drops to 100 kPa, via a process where pv1.2=constant (v being specific volume) Find the heat transfer for a...

:smile: As i know there was the load for the weight of tank itself, second will be the volume of the soil on the top of the tank. Since the horizontal tank is round at the upper part, so is that the force wil be uniformlly distributed along the curve surface? Is that any force of stress...

I need to find the volume of water in a conical tank as a function of time. I am given that the cone is standing on its point. The radius at the top of the cone is 1m and the height of the cone is 4m. The height of the water initially is h(0)=0 and h(2)=3. I am also told that the top of the...

This problem has been perplexing me all week, it doesn't look hard but somehow I can't get the right answer. The question is - A salt tank of capacity 500 gallons contains 200 gallons of water and 100 gallons of salt. Water is pumped into the tank at 3 gallon/min with salt of 1 lb/gallon...