Engineering Data Library: Friction Loss Calculator

For everyone involved in pumping systems, HI’s Engineering Data Library is the place to go to brush up on what you might already know, learn something new, and find tools that make your job easier—and it is as close as the computer monitor on your desk.

The tools section includes a piping friction loss calculator that incorporates pipe and tube friction factors as well as the standard equations presented in the data library. Understanding and accurately calculating pipe friction, is a key consideration in selecting the correct pump and reducing energy consumption.

This calculator makes it easy to understand how the pipe dimensions, fluid properties, flow rate, and pipe length relate to frictional head loss. Providing flexibility for your unit preference, you are able to toggle between US and Metric units. Additionally, the calculator allows viscosity to be input in kinematic or dynamic units.  Figure 1 illustrates the output of the calculator, which not only provides the frictional head loss for the inputs, but also provides underlying data used in the calculation, and shows how all the values would change at higher and low flow rates.

Figure 1 – Pipe friction loss calculator, available in the HI Engineering Data Library

The tools section also includes a unit converter that handles everything from density, velocity, and force to volumetric flow, temperature, power, and viscosity. The viscosity unit converter handles both kinematic and dynamic viscosity. Make sure to bookmark the site https://edl.pumps.org and use it for all your pump system engineering needs.

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