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Pipe Sizing Calculation Part 4: Determining Hydraulic Diameter of the Pipe System

Pipe Sizing Calculation Part 6: Determining Reynolds Number

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Pipe Sizing Calculation Part 5: Determining the Relative

Roughness Using Table
This article will show the table for absolute
roughness (different to coefficient of friction) of
pipe surfaces of few commonly used materials.
The absolute roughness is used in the relative
roughness calculation and in the water piping
system sizing design calculations through DarcyWeisbach equation.

Absolute Roughness Value table for Different Pipe Materials:

Pipe surface materials Absolute roughness value ( k in mm)

Aluminum 0.0012
Brass 0.001
Cast iron 0.26
Copper 0.0015
Concrete 0.3-3
Cement 0.3
Drawn tube 0.0015
Galvanized iron 0.15
Plas c, PVC 0 0.0015
Steel 0.045

The water pipe sizing calculation example, we are dealing with, has galvanized iron (GI) tubes. From the above absolute
surface roughness table we can see the value for GI pipe is 0.15.

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For our home water tube sizing example,

The value of relative roughness =absolute roughness / hydraulic diameter (refer part-4)

= 0.15/ 20 = 0.0075

In the next part (part-6), we will calculate the Reynolds number for the piping system.

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