How many gallons of water in 600' of 6" diameter pipe?

[Golden_HVAC]

I know there are a lot of smart people who can look this up quickly, but I am not one of them.

I would like to know about how many gallons of water would be in a piping system that is 600' long, and 6" diameter steel pipe. Then I will be able to figure out how much water treatment to add.

I don't need a really accurate guess, within 50 gallons is fine. .

Thanks,

Fred.

[Dick_A]

Folks,
I have deleted a considerable number of trolling posts from this thread. Please understand this is a forum section for technical issues and if you do not have a pertinent answer please refrain from posting to a thread. Fred asked a reasonable question and there was no reason for three pages of troll posts.

Dick

[pnichols]

Well (no pun intended since ours is about dry), while everyone's math skills are still fresh ... we just installed two new 5000 gallon storage tanks with about 150 feet of 1 1/2 inch pipe going from them to the main pumping tank that supplies our home.

So ... how many gallons can we store in the two new tanks plus the pipe running between them and the pumping tank??? :B

[DougE]

Assuming this is 6" sch. 40 steel pipe, the inside diameter is 6.065" and the enclosed volume is 1.5 gal/ft. Therefore - 900 gallons.

[wca01]

If it is schedule 40 steel pipe, the OD is 6.625: and the ID is 6.031:
Then the correct equation for schedule 40 pipe is:

(6.031 / 2)^2 * pi * 600 * 12 / 231 = 890.408

Good Luck!
Wil

[valhalla360]

6" inside diameter or outside diameter?
If outside diameter, we need to also know the thickness of the pipe walls.

[SDcampowneroper]

SD state dept. of water resources rule of thumb for 6" pipe is 1.5 gal/ ft.

[Bend]

obgraham wrote:
See, we can't even agree on something defined by the rules of mathematics!

Naw... simply stated: The more pie, the more gallons. 8>)


3.14 compared to 3.14159++++++++++...

RJsfishin wrote:
I did that really quick,..........
Area of a 6" circle = pie x radius squared, x 12", x 600, divided by 231 ci in a gallon

[Golden_HVAC]

Thanks everyone! I knew that I would be able to get a quick answer.

880 gallons. And I am filtering about 2 GPM of that water in a 5 micron filter, so I am guessing 120 GPH, and every 7 hours I should have filtered 'all' of the water.

Thanks again!

Fred.

[newman_fulltime]

Hey Fred I just asked Google and it gave me the answer

[RJsfishin]

Quote:
I don't need a really accurate guess, within 50 gallons is fine.
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What in the world makes you think we'd be guessin ?? 😞
🙂

[Vulcaneer]

880.77 Gallons

Question Number 5 on Page 24. Answer in Job #27 following.

[RJsfishin]

I did that really quick,..........
Area of a 6" circle = pie x radius squared, x 12", x 600, divided by 231 ci in a gallon

[newman_fulltime]

881.3 gals

[RJsfishin]

881.2