scholarly journals Time-Frequency Characterization of Rotating Instabilities in a Centrifugal Pump with a Vaned Diffuser

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Pavesi ◽  
G. Cavazzini ◽  
G. Ardizzon
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Pressure Fluctuations ◽  
Computer Code ◽  
Design Flow ◽  
Vaned Diffuser ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Ansys Cfx ◽  
Frequency Domains ◽  
Radial Pump

This paper presents acoustic and flowdynamic investigations of large-scale instabilities in a radial pump with a vaned diffuser. Pressure fluctuations were measured with transducers placed flush at the inlet duct, at the impeller discharge, and in the vane diffuser walls. Two impeller rotation speeds were analyzed in the study, at design, and at off-design flow rates. A spectral analysis was carried out on the pressure signals in frequency and in time-frequency domains to identified precursors, inception, and evolution of the pressure instabilities. The results highlighted the existence of a rotating pressure structure at the impeller discharge, having a fluid-dynamical origin and propagating both in the radial direction and inside the impeller. The experimental data were then compared with the results obtained with help of ANSYS CFX computer code; focusing on the changing flow field at part load. Turbulence was reproduced by DES model.

Two-Stage Adaptive Line Enhancer and Sliced Wigner Trispectrum for the Characterization of Faults from Gear Box Vibration Data

1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 488-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Lee ◽  
P. R. White
Keyword(s):  
Background Noise ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Vibration Data ◽  
Frequency Representation ◽  
Frequency Domains ◽  
Adaptive Line Enhancer ◽  
Gear Fault

Impulsive sound and vibration signals in gears are often associated with faults which result from impacting and as such these impulsive signals can be used as indicators of faults. However it is often difficult to make objective measurements of impulsive signals because of background noise signals. In order to ease the measurement of impulsive sounds embedded in background noise, it is proposed that the impulsive signals are enhanced, via a two stage ALE (Adaptive Line Enhancer), and that these enhanced signals are then analyzed in the time and frequency domains using a Wigner higher order time-frequency representation. The effectiveness of this technique is demonstrated by application to gear fault data.

Experimental Investigation of Time-Frequency Characteristics of Pressure Fluctuations in a Double-Suction Centrifugal Pump

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhifeng Yao ◽  
Fujun Wang ◽  
Lixia Qu ◽  
Ruofu Xiao ◽  
Chenglian He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Pressure Fluctuation ◽  
Pressure Fluctuations ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Design Flow ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Blade Passing Frequency ◽  
Design Flow Rate

Pressure fluctuation is the primary reason for unstable operations of double-suction centrifugal pumps. By using flush mounted pressure transducers in the semispiral suction chamber and the volute casing of a double-suction pump, the pressure fluctuation signals were obtained and recorded at various operating conditions. Spectral analyses were performed on the pressure fluctuation signals in both frequency domain and time-frequency domain based on fast Fourier transform (FFT) and an adaptive optimal-kernel time-frequency representation (AOK TFR). The results show that pressure fluctuations at the impeller rotating frequency and some lower frequencies dominated in the semispiral suction chamber. Pressure fluctuations at the blade passing frequency, the impeller rotating frequency, and their harmonic frequencies were identified in the volute casing. The amplitude of pressure fluctuation at the blade passing frequency significantly increased when the flow rate deviated from the design flow rate. At 107% of the design flow rate, the amplitude increased more than 254% than that at the design flow rate. The time-frequency characteristics of these pressure fluctuations were affected greatly by both operating conditions and measurement locations. At partial flow rates the pulsation had a great irregularity and the amplitudes at the investigated frequencies were much larger than ones at the design flow rate. An asymmetrical pressure fluctuation structure in the volute casing was observed at all flow rates. The pulsation behavior at the blade passing frequency was the most prominent near the volute tongue zone, and the pressure waves propagated in both the radial and circumferential directions.

scholarly journals Overall Performance of a Centrifugal Vaned Diffuser Pump for Different Flow Rates, Experimental and Numerical Comparisons

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Data ◽  
Computer Code ◽  
Design Flow ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Vaned Diffuser ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Radial Flow Pump ◽  
Flow Pump

The article presents the analysis of the interactions between the impeller and the vaned diffuser of a radial flow pump. The tests were carried out on the so-called SHF impeller, coupled with a vaned diffuser, and working with air. The particularity of this machine is that the diffuser design flow rate corresponds to 80% of the impeller one. All experimental works were performed at the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory in ENSAM, Lille, France. Investigations have been made for five different flow rates. Global performances of the machine are evaluated thanks to pressure measurements and averaged velocities obtain with a three hole probe, at nine angular positions at diffuser inlet and outlet just as five radial positions in a middle section of a blade-to-blade passage. A post-processing procedure, based on statistical tools, was applied to the experimental results in order to reach a better understanding of the phenomena. In another approach, a numerical simulation of the flow inside the pump, for eight different relative angular positions of the diffuser relative to the impeller (Frozen rotor) was performed by the STAR-CCM+ software. The experimental results were compared to numerical data obtained with the help of STAR-CCM+ computer code.

Pressure instabilities in a vaned centrifugal pump

2011 ◽  
Vol 225 (7) ◽  
pp. 930-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Cavazzini ◽  
G Pavesi ◽  
G Ardizzon
Keyword(s):  
Centrifugal Pump ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Dynamical Evolution ◽  
Detached Eddy Simulation ◽  
Time Step ◽  
Transient Model ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Commercial Code ◽  
Frequency Domains

This article reports the acoustic and fluid-dynamical analyses of large-scale instabilities in a vaned centrifugal pump. The unsteady pressure fields at full/part load were measured by dynamic piezoresistive transducers placed at the impeller discharge and on an instrumented diffuser vane. To spectrally characterize the inception and the evolution of the unsteady phenomena, spectral analyses of the pressure signals were carried out both in frequency and time–frequency domains. Numerical analyses were carried out on the same pump with the help of the commercial code CFX. All the computations were performed using the unsteady ‘transient’ model with a time step corresponding to about 1° of the impeller rotation. The turbulence was modelled by the detached eddy simulation model. Numerical pressure signals were compared with the experimental ones to verify the development of the same pressure instabilities. The unsteady numerical flow fields were analysed to study the fluid-dynamical evolution of the instabilities and investigate their origin.

scholarly journals Characterization of Frequency Domains of Bandlimited Frame Multiresolution Analysis

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1050
Author(s):  
Zhihua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Multiresolution Analysis ◽  
Background Noise ◽  
Sparse Reconstruction ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Processing Data ◽  
Narrowband Signal ◽  
Frequency Domains ◽  
Frame Multiresolution Analysis

Framelets have been widely used in narrowband signal processing, data analysis, and sampling theory, due to their resilience to background noise, stability of sparse reconstruction, and ability to capture local time-frequency information. The well-known approach to construct framelets with useful properties is through frame multiresolution analysis (FMRA). In this article, we characterize the frequency domain of bandlimited FMRAs: there exists a bandlimited FMRA with the support of frequency domain G if and only if G satisfies G⊂2G, ⋃m2mG≅Rd, and G\G2⋂G2+2πν≅∅(ν∈Zd).

scholarly journals Time-Dependent Statistical Analysis of Wide-Area Time-Synchronized Data

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Messina ◽  
P. Esquivel ◽  
F. Lezama
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Nonstationary Process ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
Area Measurement ◽  
Wide Area ◽  
Time Frequency

Characterization of spatial and temporal changes in the dynamic patterns of a nonstationary process is a problem of great theoretical and practical importance. On-line monitoring of large-scale power systems by means of time-synchronized Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) provides the opportunity to analyze and characterize inter-system oscillations. Wide-area measurement sets, however, are often relatively large, and may contain phenomena with differing temporal scales. Extracting from these measurements the relevant dynamics is a difficult problem. As the number of observations of real events continues to increase, statistical techniques are needed to help identify relevant temporal dynamics from noise or random effects in measured data. In this paper, a statistically based, data-driven framework that integrates the use of wavelet-based EOF analysis and a sliding window-based method is proposed to identify and extract, in near-real-time, dynamically independent spatiotemporal patterns from time synchronized data. The method deals with the information in space and time simultaneously, and allows direct tracking and characterization of the nonstationary time-frequency dynamics of oscillatory processes. The efficiency and accuracy of the developed procedures for extracting localized information of power system behavior from time-synchronized phasor measurements of a real event in Mexico is assessed.

Some applications of electron beam microanalysis techniques in VLSI process evaluation

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 160-161
Author(s):  
Simon Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Process Evaluation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Analysis Of Failures ◽  
Characterization Of Materials ◽  
Circuits Vlsi

Trends in the technology development of very large scale integrated circuits (VLSI) have been in the direction of higher density of components with smaller dimensions. The scaling down of device dimensions has been not only laterally but also in depth. Such efforts in miniaturization bring with them new developments in materials and processing. Successful implementation of these efforts is, to a large extent, dependent on the proper understanding of the material properties, process technologies and reliability issues, through adequate analytical studies. The analytical instrumentation technology has, fortunately, kept pace with the basic requirements of devices with lateral dimensions in the micron/ submicron range and depths of the order of nonometers. Often, newer analytical techniques have emerged or the more conventional techniques have been adapted to meet the more stringent requirements. As such, a variety of analytical techniques are available today to aid an analyst in the efforts of VLSI process evaluation. Generally such analytical efforts are divided into the characterization of materials, evaluation of processing steps and the analysis of failures.

Characterization of seawater reverse osmosis fouled membranes from large scale commercial desalination plant

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chem Int
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Retention Rate ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Microscopic Analysis ◽  
Transmembrane Pressure ◽  
Hydraulic Permeability ◽  
Seawater Reverse Osmosis ◽  
A Chain

The objective of this work is to study the ageing state of a used reverse osmosis (RO) membrane taken in Algeria from the Benisaf Water Company seawater desalination unit. The study consists of an autopsy procedure used to perform a chain of analyses on a membrane sheet. Wear of the membrane is characterized by a degradation of its performance due to a significant increase in hydraulic permeability (25%) and pressure drop as well as a decrease in salt retention (10% to 30%). In most cases the effects of ageing are little or poorly known at the local level and global measurements such as (flux, transmembrane pressure, permeate flow, retention rate, etc.) do not allow characterization. Therefore, a used RO (reverse osmosis) membrane was selected at the site to perform the membrane autopsy tests. These tests make it possible to analyze and identify the cause as well as to understand the links between performance degradation observed at the macroscopic scale and at the scale at which ageing takes place. External and internal visual observations allow seeing the state of degradation. Microscopic analysis of the used membranes surface shows the importance of fouling. In addition, quantification and identification analyses determine a high fouling rate in the used membrane whose foulants is of inorganic and organic nature. Moreover, the analyses proved the presence of a biofilm composed of protein.

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