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[ryn376]

Can anybody provide guidance on designing a long piping system, how to calculate required number of pumps and stations, available design manuals, slack flow, or any important points that come to mind? The pipe line will be pumping water from an aquifer ~ 50 ft below ground along the route in the attached picture. The pipeline is ~35 km long, it will be installed at an elevation of +/-14,000 ft. above sea level in rough mountain terrain (elevations are provided in attached picture).

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Edited by ryn376, 16 December 2016 - 07:01 AM.

[Bobby Strain]

Picture? Thanks. I expect that the system you need at the pump station would be a storage tank to collect water from the well pumps. And pumps at this pump station from the tank to deliver to the destination. The distance is reasonably short. You failed to mention the flow. But it is most likely that you can provide sufficient pressure at the pump station to deliver water to the destination without  any intervening booster pump station. Your chore, then, is to optimize the pipeline and pump capital cost and pump operating cost. This should be a simple task to look at the cost for several pipe sizes, starting with the smallest diameter pipe required to maintain the maximum allowable velocity.

 

Bobby

Edited by Bobby Strain, 16 December 2016 - 04:06 PM.