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Pipe and Tube Purge Times

This spreadsheet calculates time for various pipe or tube sizes
based on the flow rate and volume changes specified

Use of pipe diameter as either NPS or ID is inconsequential

and does not affect the efficacy of the calculations

Volume Changes: 5
Flow Rate CFH: 25

Inside Diameter Purge time (s) Purge Time (min) Seconds Minutes
or NPS Seconds/foot Minutes/foot per 10 ft. (s) per 10 ft. (min.)

0.5 1 9.8
0.75 2 22.1
1 4 39.3
1.5 9 88.3 1.5
2 16 157.0 2.6
2.5 25 245.3 4.1
3 35 353.3 5.9
3.5 48 480.8 8.0
4 63 1.0 628.0 10.5
4.5 79 1.3 794.8 13.2
5 98 1.6 981.3 16.4
6 141 2.4 1413.0 23.6
8 251 4.2 2512.0 41.9
10 393 6.5
12 565 9.4
14 769 12.8
16 1005 16.7
18 1272 21.2
20 1570 26.2
24 2261 37.7
30 3533 58.9
36 5087 84.8

Basis: seconds will it take to purge 1 foot of pipe using 5 volume changes at 50 CFH
sec/ft= 5 * π * radius^2 (in^2) *(ft^3/1728 in^3)*(3600 s/hr)*(hr/50ft^3)*12 in/ft

5 X pi X radius^2 X 3600 X 12 reduces to 5 X pi X radius^2 X 3600

1728 X 50 144 X 50

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