In a soya bean oil manufacturing plant, soya bean slurry at 20C is pumped from a collection tank to a cooler operating at 50 kPa and located 3.5 m above the tank. From the tank, the slurry flows at the rate of 1.5L/s through a total of 5.6m of 2.54 cm ID stainless steel commercial pipe, three 90 elbows (standard), a straight tee (used as coupling for mounting pressure gauge) and a gate valve (open). Assuming the pump has an efficiency of 78%, estimate the power requirement in hp of the pump. The density for soybean slurry is 1041 Kg/m3 while the viscosity is 4.53 x 10-3 Pa-s. Conversion: 1hp = 0.7457 kW Answer: 0.103 hp

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In a soya bean oil manufacturing plant, soya bean slurry at 20C is pumped from a collection tank to a cooler operating at 50 kPa and located 3.5 m above the tank. From the tank, the slurry flows at the rate of 1.5L/s through a total of 5.6m of 2.54 cm ID stainless steel commercial pipe, three 90 elbows (standard), a straight tee (used as coupling for mounting pressure gauge) and a gate valve (open). Assuming the pump has an efficiency
of 78%, estimate the power requirement in hp of the pump. The density for soybean slurry is 1041 Kg/m3 while the viscosity is 4.53 x 10-3 Pa-s. Conversion: 1hp = 0.7457 kW
Answer: 0.103 hp

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