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WATER Power Tools™ v1.0 for Microsoft Excel®


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B3.0 Water Hammer Calculations

In B3.0 WATER Power Tools™ provides you with a simple tool for determining critical thresholds for avoiding water hammer issues in segments of your system. After you enter the criteria for a given section of pipe in the yellow cells, B3.0 automatically generates a table of important values related to measuring and preventing water hammers.

 
Partial Screen Shot of B3.0 Water Hammer Calculations
Double-click on the screen shot to see a larger version in pdf file format
 

By changing values in B3.0 you can determine how making that change in your system would affect water hammer thresholds. Simply type in the new variable and let the program automatically show you the results.

B3.0 also presents its results in a graph, as seen below.

 
Partial Screen Shot of B3.1 Water Hammer Graph
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The Water Hammer Graph, B3.1, is accessed by clicking on the link at the top of B3.0.