DOI : https://doi.org/10.18517/ijaseit.2.3.196

Investigation of Water Hammer Effect Through Pipeline System

Tan Wee Choon (1), Lim Kheng Aik (2), Lim Eng Aik (3), Teoh Thean Hin (4)
(1) School of Mechatronic Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia
(2) School of Mechatronic Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia
(3) Engineering Mathematics Institute, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia
(4) Aircraft Maintenance Department, Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Shah Alam, Malaysia
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Choon, Tan Wee, et al. “Investigation of Water Hammer Effect Through Pipeline System”. International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, vol. 2, no. 3, June 2012, pp. 246-51, doi:10.18517/ijaseit.2.3.196.
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This paper we study the condition where the water hammer effect is occurs in pipe line. Water hammer can cause the pipe to break if the pressure is high enough. The experiment will be set-up to investigate the water hammer effect in order to avoid the water hammer effect happen. The prevention of water hammer effect will be propose and prove the prevention method is successfully reduce the water hammer effect. The prevention method using is installing the bypass pipe with non-return valve. The experiment is done by capture the vibration signal by using data acquisition device and accelerometer. The pressure signal is capture after a sudden shutoff for the valve. The signal is than analyze and convert to wave speed. The project is differentiating and compares the water hammer phenomenon with different pipe material, pipe length, inlet diameter of pipe, and pressure in pipeline. From the experiment, result shown that the lower strength material pipe, smaller inlet diameter pipe, and longer pipe will deal with lager water hammer effect. Besides, the prevention method by installing by pass pipe with non-return valve of water hammer effect is proved successfully reduce the water hammer phenomenon by 33.33% of pressure.

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