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Energy efficiency is a key factor of today?s engineering practice. Water and wastewater systems (made up of supply and disposal networks, treatment plants etc.) often contain under pressure sections. Their energy efficiency strongly depends on the accuracy of the head loss evaluation including local head loss. In these systems a great amount of local head loss is given by different valves. Gate valves and check valves are being widely used in water and wastewater systems, therefore this article focuses especially ...

Due to the flow behavior complexity, the calculation of local head losses needs to be based on experimental results. Although there is great literature regarding the study of valves, and a part of it contains detailed results of local head loss too, these values are always related to a specific manufacturer. This means that for accurate design it is recommended to know the specific head loss exactly for the used device. In the present paper the conception and building of an experimental stand for measurement of lo...