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1. A hydroelectric turbine installation having a 200 m elevation difference between upper and lower reservoirs is
installed, having a penstock diameter of 2 meters with a friction factor 0f 0.025 and a length of 500 meters. Penstock
entry and exit loss factors are each 0.5. Determine the maximum power that can be generated from the turbine
installation, and at what flow rate this occurs.
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2. For the problem above, if there were no turbine installed but the same pipeline is installed, what would be the flow
rate and the velocity of the fluid in the pipe?
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3. A 0.5 m pump delivers 1.0 m3/s at a head of 50 m at 1500 rpm. What head and flow rate will the pump develop when
it is run at 1200 rpm in Mars, where gravity is one third that of earth?
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4. A sphere moves in water at 2 m/s and experiences a drag of 5 N. Another sphere twice the diameter is placed in a
wind tunnel. Find the velocity of the air and the drag of the bigger sphere in air which will give homologous
conditions as the smaller sphere in water. The ratio of the kinematic viscosities of air to water is 13. Density of air is
1.2 kg/m3, water is 1000 kg/m3. Consider the following parameters are important in the drag measurement:
kinematic viscosity (m2/s), drag force F (N), velocity v (m/s), fluid density (kg/m3), diameter D (m), acceleration of
gravity g (m/s2).