[RE-wrenches] Well siphon?

[Jay]

Hi Bill 

Sorry about the egg

Here is some actual info to confirm what I and others have said. 

You cannot vacuum water any more than 33’ at sea level. 



https://www.nwcg.gov/course/ffm/squirt-water/35-drafting-guidelines

Jay

> On Jan 27, 2022, at 5:34 PM, frenergy <frenergy at psln.com> wrote:
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> OK, I'll gamble some egg on my face.  In this case though, you would not be "pulling a vacuum" with air (a gas) involved.  If you can fill the entire pipe with a liquid (water), the water that's down slope of the water in the well on the other side of the ridge it would pull the water out of the well and up over that ridge as long as the pipe exit is below the dynamic water level in the well and the pipe's intake.  
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>             The caveat: the pipe would have to be filled by pumping out of the well (one time to set-up this siphon) and the exit end of the pipe would have to be closed to be able to fill the pipe completely, which would require an air vent (exhaust vent only, not intake) at the highest point of the pipe going over the ridge.  A valve would also be required at the exit end for flow control and prevent the siphon from drawing the well dry.  The pipe would have to rated to handle the crushing force of the vacuum being pulled on the uphill section of pipe after it left the well.  There could absolutely not be any leaks in the pipe.
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>             I hope my seat-of-the-pants physics is working today.
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> Bill
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> On 1/27/2022 2:28 PM, Darryl Thayer wrote:
>> Yes, but if the rise is greater than about 30 feet (25 feet even) the water head is greater than atmospheric and the water will draw a vacuum in the pipe.  These numbers depend upon the location (elevation) and temperature of the water.  
>> for example at 15,000 feet the atmosphere is about 1/2 or sea level, meaning the water column will break at 15 feet of head.  (from my high school physics, this is the scale height) so that at 7500 feet the water column is a maximum of 3/4 x 30 feet or 22 feet.  this is from memory and mine is not so good.
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>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 3:51 PM William Miller <william at millersolar.com> wrote:
>>> Colleagues:
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>>> All of our water pumping customers to date have been pumping water to tanks higher in elevation than the well-head.  Just now I am looking at a system pumping to a pond that is lower than the well-head and lower even than the bottom of the well.  The 300’ well has the head at 1200’ elevation and pumping to a pond at 800’ elevation.  The line goes over a 1500’ ridge.  If there were nothing impeding the water flow, would it not siphon to the pond?
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>>> Has anyone seen the basic physics available being used to advantage?
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>>> Thanks in advance.
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>>> William
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>>> Miller Solar
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>>> 17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422
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>>> CA Lic. 773985
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