Check valve head loss
Can anyone confirm this to me please.
Does a check valve has a different had loss value, if it's installed in a vertical or horizontal pipe?
It depends on the style of the check valve.
There are check valves that will not operate in a vertical or horizontal position ("flapper check and ball check).
What is "a different had loss value"...???
That's something else. It is static head, not frictional flow
head. Valves, pipes, other flow elements have frictional
losses. Elevation change doesn't, it has "elevation losses".
Get the flow coefficient "Cv" of the check valve.
Flow_GPM / Cv_GPM/psi^(1/2) = (diff_Press_psi)^(1/2)
As for any valve, Cv doesn't change with orientation. What does change
is the pressure drop across the valve. That changes slightly with
orientation, if installed with an angle to the horizontal, due to the
density of the fluid x elevation difference between inlet and outlet
that will result.
So use the formula above for frictional head or
pressure loss, being sure that your known inlet or outlet pressure
includes that due to elevation considerations, as it should, then the
total pressure drop across the valve will be the sum of that calculated
by Cv formula plus or minus the fluid density x valve length x
sin(alpha), where alpha = angle that the valve makes with the horizontal
plane
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