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- The Losses in Bends and Fittings apparatus has been designed for students experiment on the investigation of energy losses in pipe bends and fittings as well as gate valve. The equipment is mounted on a free-standing framework supporting the test pipe work and instrumentations. These pipe fittings include mitre bend, 90° elbow, sweep bend, contraction and enlargement.
- Bends and fittings are all instrumented with upstream and downstream pressure tapings connected to a bank of twelve water manometer tubes. The manometer tubes are pressurized by a hand pump. The system has wo manometers, Bourdon type: 0 - 2.5 bar. A gate valve is provided to control the flow rate and a separate gate valve is supplied with upstream and downstream pressure tapings connected to a differential gauge.
- The equipment requires a Hydraulics Bench (SMT-FM-100) as the source of water supply.
