View Full Version : Could somebody help me clearly understand pump head I.e static head, delivery head
 
 anithsundar
Jan 30, 2010, 08:31 PM
Could somebody help me clearly understand pump head i.e static head, delivery head, residual head and friction head . Please give me examples in S.I units. This is for plumbing purposes
 KISS
Jan 30, 2010, 08:57 PM
I must have fell asleep in my fluid mechanics course.
 
Here is residual head, a term I never heard of:  Pump engineering - residual head on pump-system curve (http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=127936&page=11)
 
Static head is easy, it's the force of gravity acing on the water and is dependent on the height of the column.
 
Friction head is really a loss.  It's easier to do the problems if you express it as a length of pipe.  Like an elbow is worth a foot of pipe.  It is also dependent on flow and dependent on the type of pipe (i.e. smoothness of the wall)
 
Delivery head:  Delivery head (http://195.30.249.184/hosting/lauda/website_en.nsf/urlnames/BMJL-5TFBQZ?OpenDocument)