Customer Query

[den]

Customer: You build automated water tanker fill stations, right?
Me: Yep! We've built them for mines.
C: Good. We have Euclids with 200 tonne* tanks we use to spray the roads.
Me: That won't be a problem, we can build to suit.
C: But there's a power problem. The fill stations will have to use gravity to move the water.
Me: That's still not a problem. We've built gravity-fed systems before.
C: And the tankers have to fill in less than 5 minutes.
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: (grabs calculator. 200,000/300=667 litres/second)
Me: Riiiight.


Over half a tonne of water per second. Fed by gravity. Time to talk to a hydraulic engineer.







*200,000 litres

Comments

[nekura-ca.livejournal.com]

667 litres/sec, through a 12" pipe that's ... ~2.2m/s through the pipe? vs 1.5 reccomended? O.O (If my calculations are correct, that is ^_^)


You have a very interesting job, to say the least. You always make it sound like so much fun. ^_^

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I think we'll have to talk them down on the timing. Or get bigger pipes.

[thoughtsdriftby.livejournal.com]

Or have side by side pipe runs, even pairs from both sides
Just be sure to charge 4x