Dipping Tube Hydropneumatic Tank Theory and Application in Water Distribution Systems
The dipping tube hydropneumatic tank is one of the most efficient equipments to prevent water hammer in water distribution and long distance transmission pipe systems. Due to its low costs and easy to maintain features, dipping tube hydropneumatic tank has many irreplaceable advantages, however it is difficult to determine the correct size and gas volume for real world engineering applications. This paper presents a robust method to solve the problems from theory and application. Based on the Method of Characteristics (MOC) equations, this paper derives the equations for modeling dipping tube hydropneumatic tanks in water distribution systems to prevent water hammer. The equations include MOC, differential orifice head loss equation, gas law, air mass, air velocity and etc. The IBMs scientific subroutine package (SSP) is applied to solve the equations by deriving to the form of X=f(X). The method has been integrated into HAMMER. This paper also presents an example to illustrate the methods of determining the tank size, and the comparison results with sealed hydropneumatic tank and surge tank equipment.
Hydropneumatic Tank Hammer MOC Water Distribution Pipe Burst
Ronghe Wang Ping Li Zhixun Wang Feng Zhang
Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, the University Towns, Shenzhen, China Bentley Syst School of Construction and Environment, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China College of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, the University Towns, Shenzhen, China
国际会议
三峡
英文
105-108
2012-05-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）