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Hydraulic pressure-drop power

Inputs

User-entered pressure loss across the stated bounded circuit element or aggregate; no network is solved.
User-entered flow through the stated pressure-drop record; duty, leakage, and flow distribution are not derived.
Percent greater than 0 through 100 used to report a literal time-scaled loss-power average.

Results

Literal hydraulic pressure-drop power

2.5

Literal active-time-scaled loss power

1

Literal loss energy per elapsed hour

1

kWh/elapsed h
Declared active-time fraction

40

%
Ploss = Δp·Q/600; Pavg = Ploss·D/100; Eper elapsed hour = Pavg·1 h

A first-pass number, not a code check, certification, or approval. Read the method and its limits below. What this is and is not.

Nearby: Hydrostatic pressure · Flow continuity · Pipe mean velocity · Bernoulli equation

Method

Formula, when it applies, and when it does not

Convert pressure drop and flow into hydraulic loss power, then scale it by an active-time fraction without sizing a circuit or thermal system.

Ploss = Δp·Q/600; Pavg = Ploss·D/100; Eper elapsed hour = Pavg·1 h

When

  • Declared pressure drop and flow
  • Metric hydraulic power conversion
  • Scalar time-average arithmetic

Don’t

  • This multiplies only a declared pressure drop by a declared flow, then scales the result by a declared active-time fraction. It does not select a pump, valve, hose, reservoir, accumulator, cooler, or component; infer system efficiency; model networks, temperature, fluid properties, accumulators, heat rejection, duty cycles beyond the stated scalar fraction, capacity, safety, suitability, or approval.
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