A rancher friend of mine asked me this question today and I thought it was too complex for me to answer as I am a carpenter and this does not come up in my line of work:
If a water supply containing 10 acre ft of water is 100 feet above the land to be irrigated and has a slope of 45 degrees, a regulated 12 in pipe is inserted at the bottom of the reservoir as the pipe gets smaller the pressure becomes greater but the volume gets smaller. The question is what is the greatest size pipe at the bottom of the grade that will give 125 psi. the slope is 300 feet long and at the bottom the pipe will be attached to a sprinkler system the pressure cannot exceed 125 psi.
2006-07-07
12:00:42
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this is gravity feed no pumps
2006-07-07
12:23:18 ·
update #1