Tank Definition and 736 Threads

Hi all :) I'm trying to figure out how much heat I can save from covering a tank which is open (uncovered). The tank is rectangular made of steel and is filled with water, heated to 50C, and is not insulated with any material. The outside temp and humidity is assumed to be 25C and 60%...

Lets take this specific example: Sun is radiating heat and a water tank with a certain surface area S absorbs this heat. Sun rays are perpendicular to this tank. [PLAIN]http://pokit.etf.ba/get/778c2978a453178481d142a891ae07c5.jpg If I know much energy did my tank of water...

1. A tank with vertical walls, 2m wide and 2m long and 2.5m high, is filled with 4800 litres of water (density 1000 kg/m3) and 3200 litres of light oil (density 900 kg/m3). Calculate the magnitude and location of the resultant force on each of the vertical walls of the tank. 2. By doing some...

An insulated 8-m^3 rigid tank contains air at 600 kPa and 400 K. A valve connected to the tank is now opened, and air is allowed to escape until the pressure inside drops to 200 kPa. The air temperature during the process is maintained constant by an electric resistance heater placed in the...

How would I go about calculating the hydrostatic force on the walls of an upright Cylindrical Tank. To keep it simple, it is completely full of water, is 1m tall, has a diameter of 1m. Many thanks for anyone that can help.

Hello, I am trying to calculate the force exerted by the water pressure on the walls of two different water tanks. A cylindrical tank and a cuboid tank. Are the following calculations correct? (It seems too easy!) Using generic dimensions: Cylindrical Tank: Height 1m, Diameter 1m...

Good Morning to all I saw this problem in one of the courses that I am taking this semester. It is very simple, it consists of an open conical tank being filled in the upper part with an stream (which is assumed to be cylindrical) of water (flow Qi through an area Ai). At the bottom of the...

Homework Statement the tank has a radius of 2m, containing an initial water level of 3m. A hole at the very bottom (underneath) of the tank has radius .005m. How long will it take to empty the tank? Homework Equations Bernoulli's principle. A=radius at top of tank a=radius of...

I have 2 locations of approx 80”w x 80”l x 112”h to install a tank(s). The tank must meet the following criteria: 1. Influent: 100gpm continuous flow of ground water dosed with 12% sodium hypochlorite to eliminate ammonia 2. 10 minute minimum verifiable retention time in the tank during...

Homework Statement A tank of water is 3m long and has a triangular cross section of height 1m and width at the top of 1m. How much work is done pumping the water to the top of the tank? The density of water is 1000kg/m3 and the gravitational constant g has value g m/s2 Homework Equations...

I have a 10,000L water tank (size 3.5m Dia x 1.0 m H) connected to 2 inch pipe (bottom of the tank). How do I calculate the speed/volume of the water flow out from the tank?

Homework Statement Two point sources in a ripple tank are generating waves with the same wavelength \lambda. They are placed a distance apart d = 5.5\lambda: --------------------------- | | | * | | ^ | |...

Greetings! We are designing a very basic two tank system with water flowing in one tank, and out the other. As illustrated here: We have come up with two equations, which should be pretty self-explanatory. W is waterflow, A is area, h is the water level and so forth. As you can see, we...

Homework Statement A 70 ft3 rigid insulated tank contains air at 14.7 psia and 80 º F. The tank is connected to a supply line through a valve. Air is flowing in the supply line at 75 psia and 80 º F. The valve is opened, and air is allowed to enter the tank until the pressure in the tank...

Ok, I have an assignment to do in MATLAB involving the following problem, I am having a problem with my results, I believe I have coded everything correctly with the parameters of the problem yet as my plots show, there is an error in my calculations, any suggestions? I am attaching my problem...

Homework Statement The level of benzene in a storage tank may fluctuate between 10 cm and 300 cm from the top of the tank. Since it is impossible to see inside the tank, an open-end manometer fluid is to be used to determine the benzene level. One leg of manometer is attached to the tank...

I am doing Control on Three Tank System using Simulink and I am newbie in Simulink. I am having a problem in the Simulation of Simulink. I am having the equation as below: az1×Sn×sign(h1-h2)√(2g|h1-h2|) where az1, Sn and g is constant. h1 and h2 is the input of the system. This...

Homework Statement Consider a closed tank filled with water, with depth h. A plate on the surface moves horizontally with constant velocity U (Excuse my poor diagram) The Attempt at a Solution Velocity field: \mathbf{v} = w(z) \mathbf{i} \rho \frac{\partial w}{\partial x}...

Homework Statement I need to create a function that will supply me with a vector that lists the heights at which markers should be placed on a tank to display the volume at that level. The tank is a cylinder on its side with 2 boxes on either end to make it free standing (image attached)...

Hello, I have this problem that I am struggling with. I have a heating element that is submerged in a water tank. The temperature of the water in the tank starts at say 5C. The temperature of the water flowing through the heating element is at 90C. I can also assume that the metal of the...

I know you guys must get tired of the tank problem, but I just can't seem to get this figured out. This is my first post here, so hopefully this is in the right subforum and is presented properly. "A brine solution of salt flows at a constant rate of 4L/min into a large tank that initially...

Homework Statement A vertical cross section of a tank is shown. Assume the tank is 16 feet long and full of water. (\delta=62.4, and that the water is to be pumped to a height of 8 feet above the top of the tank. Find the work done in emptying the tank. The tank is a triangular prisim with...

Homework Statement Solve problem 23 under the assumption that the solution is pumped out at a faster rate of 10 gal/min. When is the tank empty? 23. A large tank is filled to capacity with 500 gallons of pure water. Brine containing 2 pounds of salt per gallon is pumped into the tank at a...

Homework Statement A tank initially contains 200 gallons of fresh water, but then a salt solution of unknown concentration lb/gal is poured into the tank at 2 gal/min. The well-stirred mixture flows out of the tank at the same rate. After 120 minutes, the concentration of salt in the tank is...

hellO :D Homework Statement (Q)A large cylindrical tank has a hole of area A at its bottom.Water is poured in the tank by a tube of equal cross-sectional area "A" ejecting water at the speed "v". <a>Water level in the tank will keep on rising <b>No water can be stored in the tank <c>The...

I have a system that consist of a water tank a pump that is pumping into a pressuirsed tank at 100 GPM and another pump at the outlet of the pressurized tank that is pumping to the 6th floor , my question is can I consider the 2 pumps as 2 pumps in series ? , my second question is : is there a...

Homework Statement On the afternoon of January 15, 1919, an unusually warm day in Boston, a 26.0 m high, 27.4 m diameter cylindrical metal tank used for storing molasses ruptured. Molasses flooded the streets in a 9 meter deep stream, killing pedestrians and horses and knocking down buildings...

Homework Statement A rigid tank has a volume of 0.01m3. It initially contains saturated water at a temperature of 200°C and a quality of 0.4. The top of the tank contains a pressure-regulating valve that maintains the vapor at constant pressure. This system undergoes a process whereby it is...

Homework Statement Water flows at a rate of 30ml/s from an opening in the bottom of a 4m high pressure tank (a tank with a plunger type lid). Calculate the flow rate when an extra 50 kPa of pressure is applied. Homework Equations Bernoulli's equation and \frac{V}{t} = AvThe Attempt at a...

Hello, Can someone please give some hints on how to start this problem? I tried a few things but nothing is working! A spherical tank of water has a radius of 14 ft, with the center of the tank 50 ft above the ground. How much work will it take to fill the tank by pumping water up from...

Hi guys/gals, I have a problem, my maths isn't that great. I have some underground storage tanks with petrol in them. and I can only measure depth of the liquid at the bottom. however i want to know the volume for disposal purposes. Can anyone tell me how to find the volume given the height...

I am working on a Hydro project. Just can't get this right. I have a water tank (cone shaped) with Radius 60 Inches and height 120 Inches. The Tip of the cone has a nozzle with a 3 inch opening. If the Air pressure is ignored. What will be the flow rate of water and pressure. ?

Homework Statement A vertical cylindrical tank of cross-sectional area A_1 is open to the air at the top and contains water to a depth h_0. A worker accidentally pokes a hole of area A_2 in the bottom of the tank. Derive an equation for the depth of the water as a function of time t after...

Homework Statement A tank with a rectangular base and rectangular sides is to be open at the top. It is to be constructed so that its width is 4 meters and its volume is 36 cubic meters. If building the tank covers $10 per square meter for the base and $5 per square meter for the sides, what...

Homework Statement A welder using a tank of volume 8.00X10^-3 m^3 fills it with oxygen (with a molar mass of 32.0 g/mol) at a gauge pressure of 2.80×10^5 Pa and temperature of 39.0 Celsius. The tank has a small leak, and in time some of the oxygen leaks out. On a day when the temperature is...

Problem: A cylinder of compressed Oxygen is carried on a spacecraft headed for Mars. The compressed gas cylinder has a volume of 17000 L and is filled to a pressure of 157 atm at 234 K. The maximum pressure the cylinder can hold is 1000 atm. Question: The...

Homework Statement A tank initially contains 400 gal of brine in which 100 lb of salt are dissolved. Pure water is run into the tank at the rate of 20 gal/min, and the mixture (which is kept uniform by stirring) is drained off at the same rate. How many pounds of salt remain in the tank after...

Homework Statement Take into account the speed of the top surface of the tank and shown that the speed of fluid leaving the opening at the bottom is v1=sqrt(2gh/(1-(A21/A22)) P=Atmospheric pressure d=density v=velocity g=gravity h=height A=Area Homework Equations...

howdy, I have never worked with superconductive circuitry, nor do I know of it's use much past MRI machines with large coils and in its research for transmission lines. What if you were to make a superconducting capacitor, and place it in parallel with a superconducting coil to make a...

I am working on an assignment which is based around studying and designing the control system for a tank which has two inlet flows and one outlet flow. For the purpose of what i am doing, i will be assuming that only one of the inlet flow rates changes. Part of the assignment requires me to...

Ok so this is the question A tank contains 100 kg of salt and 2000 L of water. A solution of a concentration 0.025 kg of salt per liter enters a tank at the rate 5 L/min. The solution is mixed and drains from the tank at the same rate. A.What is the concentration of our solution in the...

a bowl shaped tank is in the shaoe of a hemisphere with a radius of 2 in. If the bowl is filled with water density rho to a depth of 1 in, find the work in pumping the water out fo the tank W=FD V=integral of surface area * height F= rho *V V is the integral of pi(sqrt(4-y^2))^2...

a bowl shaped tank is in the shaoe of a hemisphere with a radius of 2 in. If the bowl is filled with water density rho to a depth of 1 in, find the work in pumping the water out fo the tank W=FD V=integral of surface area * height F= rho *V V is the integral of pi(r-x)^2 from 0-1...

Homework Statement A tank is filled with water to a depth of 1m. A hole of cross section 1 cm^2 at the bottom allows the water to drain out. At what distance below the hole the cross sectional area of the stream is 0.9 times the area of the hole. Homework Equations The Attempt at a...

Hello, I am trying to develop a formula to calculate the force of water sloshing against the inside of a cylinder. While there has been a lot of development of baffles and structures designed to minimize the effect of sloshing liquids in tanks, we are doing some studies of liquids in small...

Homework Statement "Consider the tank and water supply system as shown in the figure below. The diameter of the supply pipe, D1 = 20 mm, and the average velocity leaving the supply pipe is V1 = 0.595 m/s. A shut-off valve is located at z = 0.1 m, and the exit pipe, D2 = 10 mm. The tank...

Suppose you have a cylindrical tank of water that is filled to height h. Total mass of water is M. How do you calculate the potential energy of water relative to the base of the tank?

I have a problem to solve where i am required to linearise a nonlinear system. Basically, the system involves a mixing tank of height H(t) and cross section area A with two input streams with flow rates Q1(t) and Q2(t) with concentrations C1 and C2 of some species (concentrations are constant)...

I use a C02 tank to fill up the tires on my truck. C02 is used because it can store a larger volume of gas in a smaller tank than most other gases. But i have no idea why this would be true. I can actually fill all four 35" tires about four times flat to full with one 10# tank. Nitrogen...

Homework Statement A rigid tank of volume 83 m3 contains 100 kg of H2O at 100oC. The tank is heated until the temperature inside reaches 120oC. Determine the pressure inside the tank at (a) the beginning and (b) the end of the heating process. Homework Equations The Attempt at a...