Research Article

Head Loss in Thin-Walled Drip Tapes with Continuous Labyrinth

Table 3

Maximum lengths calculated for lateral lines with Turbo Tape (TT) and Silver Drip (SD) thin-walled drip tapes with continuous labyrinth for different values of reported in the literature with , using estimated mean diameters and Darcy–Weisbach’s equation.

Pipe model (mm) (m)Maximum length variation (%)

TT16.010.28569.5+7.1
TT16.010.316466.9+3.1
TT16.010.344264.9
SD15.710.285104.6+4.7
SD15.710.3164100.6+0.7
SD15.710.322599.9