Influence of downstream pipe length on the water hammer parameters in HDPE pipelines

Przepływ nieustalony o właściwościach uderzenia hydraulicznego występuje stosunkowo rzadko w układach ciśnieniowych, tym niemniej jego skutki mogą wywoływać poważne problemy eksploatacyjne systemów wodociągowych. Zjawisko to jest złożone, a na jego przebieg wpływa wiele czynników. Jednym z nich jest oddziaływanie fali ciśnienia za zaworem wywołującym zjawisko uderzenia hydraulicznego. Wiąże się to z jednoczesnym wzbudzeniem fal ciśnienia o przeciwnych znakach w przewodzie przed i za zaworem. Przeprowadzone badania eksperymentalne potwierdziły znaczące oddziaływanie długości rurociągu poniżej zaworu kulowego na parametry uderzenia hydraulicznego. Dotyczy to szczególnie pierwszej fazy zjawiska. Stwierdzono wpływ długości tego rurociągu na opóźnienie wywołania zjawiska, rozumiane jako czas między rozpoczęciem zamykania zaworu a początkiem przyrostu ciśnienia. Długość przewodu wpływała także na czas przyrostu ciśnienia oraz wartości jego przyrostów. W przypadku tej samej długości przewodu przed i za zaworem, opóźnienia przyrostu ciśnienia były najmniejsze. Najdłuższe czasy opóźnienia zaobserwowano w skrajnych położeniach zaworu – blisko początku lub końca przewodu. Podczas uderzenia prostego wartości przyrostów różniły się nieznacznie od obliczonych ze wzoru Żukowskiego. W przypadku uderzeń nieprostych (złożonych), różnice między uzyskanymi przyrostami ciśnienia przy różnych długościach przewodu dochodziły do 40%.Transient flow with water hammer characteristics is not a common occurrence in pressure systems. However, its effects can lead to serious problems in the management of pressure networks. This complex phenomenon is influenced by several factors. One of them is the impact of the pressure wave downstream of the valve that enforces the phenomenon. This involves concurrent excitation of pressure waves with opposite signs in the upstream and downstream conduit. The research confirmed significant influence of the downstream pipeline length on the hydraulic impact parameters. In particular, this applies to the primary phase of the phenomenon. The effect of the pipeline length on delay of the phenomenon was demonstrated, namely on the time between the start of the valve closure and start of the pressure increase. Furthermore, the pipe length influenced the time of pressure increase and the value of pressure increments. For equal lengths of the pipe upstream and downstream of the valve, delays in the pressure increase were the smallest. The biggest delay time values were observed in the extreme valve positions – near the beginning or the end of the pipe. For a simple water hammer, the measured values differed slightly from those calculated from the Joukovsky formula. For non-simple (complex) impacts, the variations between the pressure increases obtained for different pipe lengths reached up to 40%

An analysis of the impact of valve closure time on the course of water hammer

The knowledge of transient flow in pressure pipelines is very important for the designing and describing of pressure networks. The water hammer is the most common example of transient flow in pressure pipelines. During this phenomenon, the transformation of kinetic energy into pressure energy causes significant changes in pressure, which can lead to serious problems in the management of pressure networks. The phenomenon is very complex, and a large number of different factors influence its course. In the case of a water hammer caused by valve closing, the characteristic of gate closure is one of the most important factors. However, this factor is rarely investigated. In this paper, the results of physical experiments with water hammer in steel and PE pipelines are described and analyzed. For each water hammer, characteristics of pressure change and valve closing were recorded. The measurements were compared with the results of calculations perfomed by common methods used by engineers – Michaud’s equation and Wood and Jones’s method. The comparison revealed very significant differences between the results of calculations and the results of experiments. In addition, it was shown that, the characteristic of butterfly valve closure has a significant influence on water hammer, which should be taken into account in analyzing this phenomenon. Comparison of the results of experiments with the results of calculations? may lead to new, improved calculation methods and to new methods to describe transient flow

Local cavitation due to water hammer

The phenomenon of vapour cavitation due to water hammer is investigated ex-perimentally using high frequency pressure transducers (piezoelectric and strain gauges). The water hammer is caused by a sudden closure of a ball valve mounted at the end of the steel pipe. A short-duration pressure pulse, as well as high frequency cavitation pressure oscillations is observed. The high frequency pressure oscillations appear just after the vapour cavity collapse, whereas the pressure pulse does not occur immediately after collapse but is delayed from 0 to the water hammer period $2L/c$, s. The experiments have shown that the maxi-mum high frequency pressure oscillation, directly proportional to the pressure wave velocity, can be many times higher than the maximum water hammer pres-sure amplitude as well as short-duration pressure pulse. The influence of liquid evaporation duration and the steady state losses on the maximum high frequency cavitation pressure oscillation are shown. Growing pressure reduction is accom-panied by gas desorption from the liquid. The liberated air reduces the amplitude of the pressure increase and prolongs the period of oscillations. The experiments have shown that there are three phases of the maximum amplitude of high fre-quency pressure oscillations for each fixed steady state loss. The frequency of va-pour cavitation pressure oscillations depends on the duration of the oscillations. For the test cases, the frequency increases during the cavitation from ca. 400 to 900 Hz for steel pipes

Light-fueled dynamic covalent crosslinking of single polymer chains in non-equilibrium states

While polymer synthesis proceeds predominantly towards the thermodynamic minimum, living systems operate on the reverse principle - consuming fuel to maintain a non-equilibrium state. Herein, we report the controlled formation of 3D macromolecular architectures based on light-fueled covalent non-equilibrium chemistry. In the presence of green light (525 nm) and a bivalent triazolinedione (TAD) crosslinker, naphthalene-containing polymers can be folded into single chain nanoparticles (SCNPs). At ambient temperature, the cycloaddition product of TAD with naphthalene reverts and the SCNP unfolds into its linear parent polymer. The reported SCNP is the first example of a reversible light triggered folding of single polymer chains and can readily be repeated for several cycles. The folded state of the SCNP can either be preserved through a constant supply of light fuel, kinetic trapping or through a chemical modification that makes the folded state thermodynamically favored. Whereas small molecule bivalent TAD/naphthalene cycloaddition products largely degraded after 3 days in solution, even in the presence of fuel, the SCNP entities were found to remain intact, thereby indicating the light-fueled stabilization of the SCNP to be an inherent feature of the confined macromolecular environment.</p

Electrochemical Stimulation of Water-Oil Interfaces by Nonionic-Cationic Block Copolymer Systems

Variable interfacial tension could be desirable for many applications. Beyond classical stimuli like temperature, we introduce an electrochemical approach employing polymers. Hence, aqueous solutions of the nonionic-cationic block copolymer poly(ethylene oxide)114-b-poly{[2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl]diisopropylmethylammonium chloride}171 (i.e., PEO114-b-PDPAEMA171 with a quaternized poly(diisopropylaminoethyl methacrylate) block) were investigated by emerging drop measurements and dynamic light scattering, analyzing the PEO114-b-qPDPAEMA171 impact on the interfacial tension between water and n-decane and its micellar formation in the aqueous bulk phase. Potassium hexacyanoferrates (HCFs) were used as electroactive complexants for the charged block, which convert the bishydrophilic copolymer into amphiphilic species. Interestingly, ferricyanides ([Fe(CN)6]3-) act as stronger complexants than ferrocyanides ([Fe(CN)6]4-), leading to an insoluble qPDPAEMA block in the presence of ferricyanides. Hence, bulk micellization was demonstrated by light scattering. Due to their addressability, in situ redox experiments were performed to trace the interfacial tension under electrochemical control, directly utilizing a drop shape analyzer. Here, the open-circuit potential (OCP) was changed by electrolysis to vary the ratio between ferricyanides and ferrocyanides in the aqueous solution. While a chemical oxidation/reduction is feasible, also an electrochemical oxidation leads to a significant change in the interfacial tension properties. In contrast, a corresponding electrochemical reduction showed only a slight response after converting ferricyanides to ferrocyanides. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) images of the liquid/liquid interface transferred to a solid substrate showed particles that are in accordance with the diameter from light scattering experiments of the bulk phase. In conclusion, the present results could be an important step toward economic switching of interfaces suitable, e.g., for emulsion breakage. </p