The blade shown in the figure below is 1 ft wide and is intended to skim oil (SG = 0.9) floating on water with the resulting stream to be caught in a holding tank to clean-up an oil spill. If the skimmer is set to skim off a 8-in. layer of fluid, and all of the fluid skimmed is oil, how much power (hp) must be provided to drive the skimmer at a speed of 8 ft/s? 60° Power = i 0.28028 hp
The blade shown in the figure below is 1 ft wide and is intended to skim oil (SG = 0.9) floating on water with the resulting stream to be caught in a holding tank to clean-up an oil spill. If the skimmer is set to skim off a 8-in. layer of fluid, and all of the fluid skimmed is oil, how much power (hp) must be provided to drive the skimmer at a speed of 8 ft/s? 60° Power = i 0.28028 hp
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![The blade shown in the figure below is 1 ft wide and is intended to skim oil (SG = 0.9) floating on water with the resulting stream to
be caught in a holding tank to clean-up an oil spill. If the skimmer is set to skim off a 8-in. layer of fluid, and all of the fluid skimmed is
oil, how much power (hp) must be provided to drive the skimmer at a speed of 8 ft/s?
60
Power
i
0.28028
hp](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fc1ea62c8-dca4-43ae-94e7-bd957ba42b88%2F94ca47fc-3716-4907-9b01-0e20e2113dcd%2Fbrvsfpt_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:The blade shown in the figure below is 1 ft wide and is intended to skim oil (SG = 0.9) floating on water with the resulting stream to
be caught in a holding tank to clean-up an oil spill. If the skimmer is set to skim off a 8-in. layer of fluid, and all of the fluid skimmed is
oil, how much power (hp) must be provided to drive the skimmer at a speed of 8 ft/s?
60
Power
i
0.28028
hp
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