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    Motor Size - 2

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    This document discusses equations for calculating the horsepower requirements for water pumping systems. It provides the general equation for calculating water horsepower (WHP) based on head, flow rate, and specific gravity. It also includes equations for determining brake horsepower (BHP) based on pump efficiency and motor horsepower based on motor efficiency. As an example, it calculates the BHP and motor HP needed for a pump station with a head of 2816 feet and flow rate of 7986 gallons per minute, and discusses sizing two parallel pumps or a series pump configuration to meet these requirements.

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    This document discusses equations for calculating the horsepower requirements for water pumping systems. It provides the general equation for calculating water horsepower (WHP) based on head, flow rate, and specific gravity. It also includes equations for determining brake horsepower (BHP) based on pump efficiency and motor horsepower based on motor efficiency. As an example, it calculates the BHP and motor HP needed for a pump station with a head of 2816 feet and flow rate of 7986 gallons per minute, and discusses sizing two parallel pumps or a series pump configuration to meet these requirements.

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    This document discusses equations for calculating the horsepower requirements for water pumping systems. It provides the general equation for calculating water horsepower (WHP) based on head, flow rate, and specific gravity. It also includes equations for determining brake horsepower (BHP) based on pump efficiency and motor horsepower based on motor efficiency. As an example, it calculates the BHP and motor HP needed for a pump station with a head of 2816 feet and flow rate of 7986 gallons per minute, and discusses sizing two parallel pumps or a series pump configuration to meet these requirements.

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    Motor Size - 2

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    Anil Joshi
    This document discusses equations for calculating the horsepower requirements for water pumping systems. It provides the general equation for calculating water horsepower (WHP) based on head, flow rate, and specific gravity. It also includes equations for determining brake horsepower (BHP) based on pump efficiency and motor horsepower based on motor efficiency. As an example, it calculates the BHP and motor HP needed for a pump station with a head of 2816 feet and flow rate of 7986 gallons per minute, and discusses sizing two parallel pumps or a series pump configuration to meet these requirements.

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    Water Systems Piping

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    The general equation used to calculate WHP, also known as hydraulic horsepower (HHP), is as follows: WHP = ft of head (gal/min) specic gravity 3960 (1.63)

    Assuming a pump efciency of 80 percent, the pump brake horsepower (BHP) required is BHP = 5679 = 7099 HP 0.8

    The general equation for calculating the BHP of a pump is BHP = ft of head (gal/min) (specic gravity) 3960 effy (1.64)

    where effy is the pump efciency expressed as a decimal value. If the pump is driven by an electric motor with a motor efciency of 95 percent, the drive motor HP required will be Motor HP = 7099 = 7473 HP 0.95

    The nearest standard size motor of 8000 HP would be adequate for this application. Of course this assumes that the entire pumping requirement at the Corona pump station is handled by a single pump-motor unit. In reality, to provide for operational exibility and maintenance two or more pumps will be congured in series or parallel congurations to provide the necessary pressure at the specied ow rate. Let us assume that two pumps are congured in parallel to provide the necessary head pressure of 1219 psi (2816 ft) at the Corona pump station. Each pump will be designed for one-half the total ow rate (7986.11) or 3993 gal/min and a head pressure of 2816 ft. If the pumps selected had an efciency of 80 percent, we can calculate the BHP required for each pump as follows: BHP = 2816 3993 1.0 3960 0.80 from Eq. (1.64)

    = 3550 HP Alternatively, if the pumps were congured in series instead of parallel, each pump will be designed for the full ow rate of 7986.11 gal/min but at half the total pressure required, or 1408 ft. The BHP required per pump will still be the same as determined by the preceding equation. Pumps are discussed in more detail in Sec. 1.13.

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