BCD Plastic Pipe Design Calculator Ver 3.1

Pipe Weight / Volume

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Pipe/Tubing Selection1
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1 For more information about plastic piping products included in this calculator, please visit the BCD website.

2 "Tubing" refers to products with an actual Outside Diameter (OD) 1/8 inch larger than the nominal size. "Pipe" refers to products with an actual OD matching that of steel pipe of the same nominal size (e.g. IPS), or products where the actual OD matches the nominal size (e.g. DN-Metric).

3For methanol, viscosity and density information is from “Geothermal Heating and Cooling – Design of Ground Source Heat Pump Systems” by Dr. Steve Kavanaugh and Kevin Rafferty (ASHRAE RP-1674) and “Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook (7th ed.)” by Perry, R. H., & Green, D. W. Available data is limited to a temperature range of 32°F to 86°F (0°C to 30°C).
For brine mixtures, viscosity and density information is from “ASHRAE Fundamentals 2021 – Chapter 31”.

*The pipe weight and volume calculations here are at 73°F/23°C.

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