scholarly journals Investigation of Speed Matching Affecting Contrarotating Fan’s Performance Using Wireless Sensor Network including Big Data and Numerical Simulation

Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hengxuan Luan ◽  
Liyuan Weng ◽  
Ranhui Liu ◽  
Yuanzhong Luan ◽  
Dongmin Li

This paper describes the investigations performed to better understand two-stage rotor speed matching in a contrarotating fan. In addition, this study develops a comprehensive measuring and communication system for a contrarotating fan using ZigBee network. The investigation method is based on three-dimensional RANS simulations; the RANS equations are solved by the numerical method in conjunction with a SST turbulence model. A wireless measurement system using big data method is first designed, and then a comparison is done with experimental measurements to outline the capacity of the numerical method. The results show that when contrarotating fan worked under designed speed, performance of two-stages rotors could not be matched as the designed working condition was deviated. Rotor 1 had huge influences on flow rate characteristics of a contrarotating fan. Rotor 2 was influenced by flow rates significantly. Under large flow rate condition, the power capability of rotor 2 became very weak; under working small flow rate condition, overloading would take place to class II motor. In order to solve the performance mismatch between two stages of CRF under nondesigned working conditions, under small flow rate condition, the priority shall be given to increase of the speed of rotor 1, while the speed of rotor 2 shall be reduced appropriately; under large flow rate condition, the speed of rotor 1 shall be reduced and the speed of rotor 2 shall be increased at the same time.

Author(s):  
Yasutoshi Senoo ◽  
Hiroshi Hayami ◽  
Hironobu Ueki

The pressure recovery of a low-solidity circular cascade diffuser of a centrifugal blower was predicted by a simple method combining a theory of circular cascade diffusers and that of vaneless diffusers and it was compared with a series of experiments. Furthermore the stall limit of the diffuser was studied. In order to improve the performance further, a series of tandem-cascade diffusers were tested. In these diffusers, the front row of the cascade was designed for a small flow rate while the rear row of the cascade was designed for a large flow rate so that the tandem cascade would accomplish good pressure recovery in a wide range of flow rate. Experimental results showed that the operating range was as wide as that of a vaneless diffuser and the pressure recovery was excellent at a small flow rate while it was somewhat better than that in a vaneless diffuser at a large flow rate.


2020 ◽  
Vol 181 ◽  
pp. 116021
Author(s):  
Lihua Cao ◽  
Jiaxing Wang ◽  
Huanhuan Luo ◽  
Heyong Si ◽  
Rongzu Yang

Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 932
Author(s):  
Weidong Cao ◽  
Jiayu Mao

The affinity law is widely used in pump design and experiments. The applicability of the affinity law in an emergency drainage pump at different rotating speeds was studied. Experiments and numerical simulation through ANSYS CFX (Computational Fluid Dynamics X) 15.0 software were used to research the affinity law characteristics. Results show that the simulation of characteristics is basically consistent with the experimental curves. In small flow rate conditions, due to the existence of obvious differential pressure between the pressure side and the suction side in the impeller blade tip area, the leakage flow occurs at the tip clearance, which collides with the main stream at the inlet and generates vortices at the leading edge of the impeller. The tip leakage flows of the pump at four different rotating speeds were compared, and it was found that the tip leakage increased with increasing rotation speed, and at the same rotation speed, the tip leakage flow was large in the small flow rate condition, which led to the simulation value of the characteristics being greater than the scaling value. As the flow rate increased, the anti-cavitation performance of the pump became worse and the hydraulic loss was larger, so the pump’s performance curve deviated from the scaling curve.


Author(s):  
Masahiro Ishida ◽  
Daisaku Sakaguchi ◽  
Hironobu Ueki

An optimization of the inlet ring groove arrangement has been pursued in the present study for obtaining better impeller characteristics and a wider operation range at both small and large flow rates in a high specific speed type centrifugal impeller with inducer. The effects of the shape parameters with respect to the inlet ring groove on the impeller characteristic and the flow incidence were analyzed mainly based on numerical simulations, but also compared to the experimental results. At small flow rates, a significant improvement in the impeller characteristic is achieved due to reduction in the excessive-positive flow incidence by optimizing both location and width of the rear groove near the inducer tip throat. On the other hand, the impeller characteristic is improved at large flow rates by implementing the corner radius at the rear groove edge and by placing another front ring groove in the suction pipe. As a result, by the optimized configuration of the front and rear ring grooves, the unstable flow range of the test impeller can be reduced by about 50% without deterioration of the impeller characteristic even at the 125% flow rate.


2001 ◽  
pp. 1436-1439 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ashauer ◽  
H. Scholz ◽  
R. Briegel ◽  
H. Sandmaier ◽  
W. Lang

Author(s):  
Daisaku Sakaguchi ◽  
Hironobu Ueki ◽  
Masahiro Ishida ◽  
Hiroshi Hayami

Low solidity circular cascade diffuser abbreviated by LSD was proposed by Senoo et al. showing a high blade loading or a high lift coefficient without stall even under small flow rate conditions. These high performances were achieved by that the flow separation on the suction surface of the LSD blade was successfully suppressed by the secondary flow formed along the side walls. The higher performance of the LSD was achieved in both pressure recovery and operating range by adopting the tandem cascade because the front blade of the tandem cascade was designed suitably for small flow rates while the rear blade of the tandem cascade was designed suitably for large flow rates. In order to clarify the reason why the tandem cascade could achieve a high pressure recovery in a wide range of flow rate, the flow in the LSD with the tandem cascade is analyzed numerically in the present study by using the commercial CFD code of ANSYS-CFX 13.0. The behavior of the secondary flow is compared between the cases with the single cascade and the tandem one. It is found that the high blade loading of the front blade is achieved at the small flow rate by formation of the favorable secondary flow which suppresses the flow separation on suction surface of the front blade, and the flow separation on pressure surface of the front blade appeared at the design flow rate can be suppressed by the accelerated flow in the gap between the trailing edge of the front blade and the leading edge of the rear blade, resulting in the positive lift coefficient in spite of a large negative angle of attack.


Author(s):  
Zunqiang Fan ◽  
Jianfang Liu ◽  
Jingshi Dong ◽  
Jianqiao Li ◽  
Bin Jiang

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