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Q#1 GATE CH 2015 NAT +2 marks -0 marks

A centrifugal pump delivers water at the rate of  from a reservoir at ground level to another reservoir at a height , through a vertical pipe of 0.2 m diameter. Both the reservoirs are open to atmosphere. The power input to the pump is 90 kW and it operates with an efficiency of 75%.

Data:
Fanning friction factor for pipe flow is
. Neglect other head losses.
Take gravitational acceleration,
 and density of water is .
The height
, in meters, to which the water can be delivered (up to one decimal place) is
.

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