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DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AN APPROPRIATE METHOD FOR HEAD LOSS DETERMINATION IN FOOT-VALVES

Volume : 77
Issue: Feb-feb
Pages: 96 - 99
Published: August 17, 2023
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Abstract


For computing the pressure loss while designing a pump or while selecting a pump, an equation taking into account the area of dome surface, section eross section area, acceleration due to gravity, velocity flow at the foot valve, diameter the suction pipe and strainer opening area was developed.

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96 - 99
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Foot valve Head loss Dimensional analysis
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