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[moorea9]

Alkaline,
If I may ....
The pump power of the station N you have put the AOT on is a function of the drag effect in this section, but also in the other sections (as liquids are incompressible, and all is connected).
The sections that are most affecting the pump power of the station N are of course the drag of section N, N-1 and N+1 (immediate neighbours).

This is also true from the perspective of station N-1 : pump power of this station will depends on the drag of section N-2, and N.

So when you switch on the AOT on station N and the viscosity reduces so much that the drag effect is dramatically much lower in section N, according to the above, it will effect the power of the pump N-1 and depending on the way the pump N-1 has been parametered, you may see and increase of power of station N-1, which will in turn increase the flow and the parameters of station N that you are studying.

This is an example where the test might be "flawed" hence the need to design a new protocol. Had the viscosity reduction be less dramatic, the impact on pump N-1 would have been less and the test would be more "conclusive" meaning no need to redesign the protocol.

In a way the need to redesign the protocol is a direct consequence of the totally unexpected effects that have been observed.

Re: deesil post# 18384
Post # of 18407

What kind of testing parameters and variables?

Can you give some ideas of the kind of issues they would likely have sought to address in the second test, and the kind of variables they might have thought were present in the first test?

I'm always very curious about the details of these things.

And of course, if one got a 75% pump reduction number right off the bat, you would wonder what the heck was going on and of course order up another test with extreme controls and protocols to make absolutely sure you could isolate the effect and measure it to the extent possible. That kind of astounding outcome only demands it.