1.

The main air supply duct of an air-conditioning

system is 800 mm 600 mm in cross-section,
and carries 300 m3/min of standard air. It
branches in to two ducts of cross-section 600
mm 500 mm and 600 mm 400 mm. If the
mean velocity in the larger branch is 480 m/min,
find

i. mean velocity in the main duct and the

smaller branch
ii. mean velocity pressure in each duct in
mm of water.

2. A circular duct of 100 mm diameter converges

gradually to a 75 mm duct, as shown. The static
pressure just upstream of the reducer is 30 mm
of water and the velocity is 450 m/min. The loss
of pressure in the reducer is 0.1 of the velocity
head in the duct downstream of the reducer.
Calculate the total pressures upstream and
downstream of the reducer. Also determine the
pressure indicated by a U-tube water manometer
connected differentially to pressure tappings
upstream and downstream of the reducer.
3. The duct shown in the figure is supplied with air
at a velocity of 600 m/min in section AB, which is
0.6 m in diameter and 45 m in length.

The duct CD is 1.2 m in diameter and 150 m in

length and duct EF is 0.45 m in diameter and 15 m
in length. It discharges freely to atmosphere at F.
The loss in the expander BC is 0.5 times the velocity
pressure in duct AB and the loss in the reducer DE
is 0.2 times the velocity pressure in the duct EF.
Using the expression
0.263 V 1.85
pf
D1.27
where pf is the pressure loss due to friction in mm of
water per 100 m length of the duct, V is the duct
velocity in m/s and D is the diameter of the duct in
m, find the static pressure required at point A.