In: Civil Engineering
A water tower supplies water to a city through a pipe with 1 ft
diameter. The pipe is 0.5 miles long and is made of commercial
steel pipe. Over the years, the supply line lost head and engineers
are considering the replacement of 94 percent of the pipe length
with a larger diameter pipe (same type). The peak water demand is
3.53 ft3/sec. How much pressure head could be gained by this
strategy?