You wish to use a pump to supply water to a simple irrigation system. The pump is required to feed water into a galvanised steel pipe of length 1km. The available pump is capable of delivering a head of 10m. You would like to achieve a flow rate of 10 litres per second. Estimate the minimum practical pipe diameter that you would need to use. State and justify any assumptions or simplifications that you make in your design calculations
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You wish to use a pump to supply water to a simple irrigation system. The
pump is required to feed water into a galvanised steel pipe of length 1km.
The available pump is capable of delivering a head of 10m. You would like to
achieve a flow rate of 10 litres per second. Estimate the minimum practical
pipe diameter that you would need to use. State and justify any assumptions
or simplifications that you make in your design calculations
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