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Pump Head Loss Calculator

Directions: Select a pump from the "Select your Pump" dropdown menu. Next, enter your system data in the spaces provided. Vertical Length refers only to height that you need to pump the water vertically. Horizontal Length refers to the total horizontal length of pipe from the output of your sump to the input into your tank. If there are any valves, elbows, couplings, etc, enter that data into the spaces provided. Once all of the system data is entered into the required fields, click the SOLVE! button to find out what your overall system flow and plumbing losses will be with the given pump/plumbing information.

The results will be printed out at the bottom of your screen.

For additional plumbing and pump information, please see the January 2003 issue of Advanced Aquarist for Sanjay Joshi, Nathan Paden, and Shane Graber's "An Engineering View of Aquarium Systems Design: Pumps and Plumbing" article.

For technical pump data, please see the following URL: http://www.reefs.org/library/pumps/

Select your Pump:
Vertical Length in feet:
Horizontal Length in feet:
Pipe Diameter in inches:
Number of 90° Elbows:
Number of 45° Elbows:
Number of Gate Valves:
Number of Ball Valves:
Number of Union Couplings:
Number of Swing Check Valves:
Number of Pipe Exits:
Number of Pipe Entrances:

Pump diameter cannot be zero.

Head Loss Calculator developed by Jason Nugent and ReefCentral, with pump curve information courtesy of Shane Graber and Reefs.org

© 2003 www.reefs.org

Pump Head Loss Calculator

The results will be printed out at the bottom of your screen.

For additional plumbing and pump information, please see the January 2003 issue of Advanced Aquarist for Sanjay Joshi, Nathan Paden, and Shane Graber's "An Engineering View of Aquarium Systems Design: Pumps and Plumbing" article.

For technical pump data, please see the following URL: http://www.reefs.org/library/pumps/

Select your Pump:

Vertical Length in feet:

Horizontal Length in feet:

Pipe Diameter in inches:

Number of 90° Elbows:

Number of 45° Elbows:

Number of Gate Valves:

Number of Ball Valves:

Number of Union Couplings:

Number of Swing Check Valves:

Number of Pipe Exits:

Number of Pipe Entrances:

Pump diameter cannot be zero.