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Chemical and Biological Process Lab 5 Application of Energy Losses in BendsDepartment: Chemical and Biological EngineeringStudent number: 2008-12078Name: Chew Yueh RennGroup: Wednesday Group 8Teacher Assistant: ??? ???Experiment Date: 2010. 11. 3Submission Date: 2010. 11. 3INTRODUCTIONFluid mechanics as part of the mechanicshas been developed since ancient time. This study field has developed from the application of the classical law’s statics mechanics, dynamics and thermodynamics to continuous medium that can be handled with simulation and be analyzed. Especially, this study field grew rapidly when it is found to be closely related to various areas in engineering. Relevant law included mass, energy and momentum conservation laws.These laws enable the simplification ofquantitative analysis of fluid motion. The objective in this experiment is to explore the energy loss of flowing fluid in bends and annex.THEORYSince pipe flow is a flowing flow that fulfill inside the cross-section area regardless of the cross-section condition, it doesn’t have any free surface water and only depend to the pressure, it even have no higher and lower different inside the pipe.2.1 Darcy-Weisbach equationEnergy loss inside the pipe flow is due to the water viscosity where the water molecules themselves or the water molecules with the pipe interacts each other. This friction head loss is dominated by the head loss during the pipe flow. Energy loss that due to friction loss is called major loss and it is represented by Darcy-Weisbach equation.Here, f: frictional coefficient, d: pipe diameter, l: pipe length, V:average flow rate, g: gravityFrom equation above, frictional head loss is inverse proportional to the pipe diameter while proportional to the pipelength, square of average flow rate, roughness inside the pipe, water viscosity. Also, frictional coefficient, f could be figured through formula as follow.For laminar flow (Re2000): (1)For turbulent flow (Re2000): Where, e: absolute roughn