A high-voltage powerline operates at 500000 V-rms and carries an rms current of 500 A. If the resistance of the cable is 0.050?/km, what is the resistive power loss in 200 km of the powerline?

a. 250 kW
b. 500 kW
c. 1 Megawatt
d. 2.5 Megawatts
e. 250 Megawatts


d

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A series of tests in which water was heated while flowing through a 1 m-long electrically heated tube of 1.3 cm ID yielded the experimental pressure-drop data shown next.



GIVEN
Water flowing through a tube
Isothermal and nonisothermal pressure drop data given above
The dimensionless friction factor

Reynolds number

Inside tube diameter

Tube length


FIND
Dimensionless equation of the form:

SKETCH

PROPERTIES AND CONSTANTS
From Appendix 2, Table 13, for water

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