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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Middlessex county, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by red-beard
The pipe is 9" in diameter. At 60,000 barrels per day, the flow rate is about 30 gallons per second (120 liters per second) and the velocity is around 9 feet per second (3 meters per second).
Somewhere down the pipe, the diameter is reduced to 7".
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How much power would a radio controlled torpedo need to force its way against a flow like that? My idea is to make a torpedo/plug and drive it into the hole. Could then expand itself and get stuck in there.
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