scholarly journals Centrifugal Pump Design, Fabrication And Characterization: A Project Driven Freshman Experience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Swanbom ◽  
David Hall ◽  
Kelly Crittenden
Keyword(s):  
Centrifugal Pump ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
Fabrication And Characterization ◽  
Freshman Experience

Numerical Study of Rotor–Stator Interaction of a Centrifugal Pump at Part Load With Special Emphasis on Unsteady Blade Load

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Casimir ◽  
Xiangyuan Zhu ◽  
Markus Hundshagen ◽  
Gerhard Ludwig ◽  
Romuald Skoda
Keyword(s):  
Flow Field ◽  
Unsteady Flow ◽  
Centrifugal Pump ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Load Flow ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
Part Load ◽  
Unsteady Characteristics

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) flow simulations are conducted to investigate the highly unsteady flow field at part load operation of a centrifugal pump. By the availability of unsteady flow field measurement data in the impeller wake region, a thorough validation of the simulation method is performed. Grid independence of the results is ensured. Unsteady characteristics in terms of head and shaft power as well as transient blade loads are evaluated to assess the unsteady pump performance. Significant mis-loading of the blading is revealed when one blade passes the volute tongue and associated with the strong unsteady and 3D flow field in the impeller-volute tongue region. Negative radial velocity in the tongue region is the origin of a vortex at the blade pressure side and a subsequent pressure drop that leads to even temporally negative blade loading. The results provide a detailed insight in the complex part load flow field that might be utilized for an improved pump design. As a valuable secondary outcome, a comparison of results obtained by two widely used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes for pump flow simulation is provided, i.e., the commercial code ansyscfx and the branch foam-extend of the open source software openfoam. It is found that the results of both methods in terms of unsteady characteristics as well as local ensemble-averaged velocity field are consistent.

scholarly journals Effect of the staggered impeller on reducing unsteady pressure pulsations of a centrifugal pump

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Zhang ◽  
Junxian Jiang ◽  
Xiaokai Liu ◽  
Bo Gao
Keyword(s):  
Centrifugal Pump ◽  
Internal Flow ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Stable Operation ◽  
Pump Efficiency ◽  
Pressure Pulsations ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
Pump Head ◽  
Rotor Stator Interaction

Abstract High pressure pulsations excited by rotor stator interaction is always focused in pumps, especially for its control considering the stable operation. In the current research, a special staggered impeller is proposed to reduce intense pressure pulsations of a centrifugal pump with ns=69 based on alleviating rotor stator interaction. The numerical simulation method is conducted to illustrate the influence of staggered impeller on the pump performance and pressure pulsations, and three typical flow rates (0.8ФN-1.2ФN) are simulated. Results show that the staggered impeller will lead to the pump head increasing, and at the design working condition, the increment reaches about 3% compared with the original impeller. Meanwhile, the pump efficiency is little affected by the staggered impeller, which is almost identical with the original impeller. From comparison of pressure spectra at twenty monitoring points around the impeller outlet, it is validated that the staggered impeller contributes significantly to decreasing pressure pulsations at the concerned working conditions. At the blade passing frequency, the averaged reduction of twenty points reaches 89% by using the staggered impeller at 1.0ФN. The reduction reaches to 90%, 80% at 0.8ФN, 1.2ФN respectively. Caused by the rib within the staggered impeller, the internal flow field in the blade channel will be affected. Finally, it is concluded that the proposed staggered impeller surely has a significant effect on alleviating intense pressure pulsation of the model pump, which is very promising during the low noise pump design considering its feasibility for manufacturing.

Evaluate a New Pump Design Using CFD Simulation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Ding ◽  
Benjamin Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Centrifugal Pump ◽  
Cfd Simulation ◽  
Cfd Simulations ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
Pump Performance ◽  
Simulation Techniques ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Design Software ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Pump Assembly

Abstract This paper describes how CFD simulations were used to help evaluating a centrifugal pump performance. The simulated pump was designed totally from scratch. Many aspects of pump performance characteristics were predicted based on the geometry generated using a pump design software. Especially the effects of the free spin of the 3rd rotor in a 3 stage pump assembly on overall performance were evaluated. Pump models, simulation techniques, and simulation approaches will be presented in detail. Simulation results will be discussed and compared with available test data.

scholarly journals Performance Optimization of High Specific Speed Centrifugal Pump Based on Orthogonal Experiment Design Method

Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li ◽  
Ding ◽  
Shen ◽  
Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Centrifugal Pump ◽  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Orthogonal Experiment ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Experiment Design ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
Orthogonal Experiment Design ◽  
Specific Speed

A high specific speed centrifugal pump is used in the situation of large flow and low head. Centrifugal pump parameters need to be optimized in order to raise its head and efficiency under off-design conditions. In this study, the orthogonal experiment design method is adopted to optimize the performance of centrifugal pump basing on three parameters, namely, blade outlet width b2, blade outlet angle β2 and blade wrap angle φ. First, the three-dimensional model of the centrifugal pump is established by CFturbo and SolidWorks. Then nine different schemes are designed by using orthogonal table, and numerical simulation is carried out in CFX15.0. The final optimized combination of parameters is b2 = 24 mm, β2 = 24°, φ = 112°. Under the design condition, the head and efficiency of the optimized centrifugal pump are appropriately improved, the increments of which are 0.74 m and 0.48%, respectively. However, the efficiency considerably increases at high flow rates, with an increase of 6.9% at 1.5 Qd. The anti-cavitation performance of the optimized centrifugal pump is also better than the original pump. The results in this paper can provide references for parameter selection (b2, β2, φ) in the centrifugal pump design.

Fault Diagnosis of a Centrifugal Pump by Vibration Analysis

Volume 3 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Behzad ◽  
A. R. Bastami ◽  
M. Maassoumian
Keyword(s):  
Centrifugal Pump ◽  
Vibration Analysis ◽  
Vibration Measurement ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
Pump Speed ◽  
Speed Controller ◽  
Performance Curves ◽  
Electrical Faults ◽  
Dissolved Air

This paper gives the final Solution for vibration reduction in a centrifugal pump. Vibration measurement in different conditions has been carried out in order to find the main reason for excessive vibration of the pumps. In the first stage several parameters including cavitation, not working in the pump design condition and mechanical and electrical faults assumed to be the reason for the pump vibration. By vibration analysis it is found that the major reason for the pump vibration is working in off design conditions. More over dissolved air in the suction fluid can possibly cause two-phase flow leading to the pump vibration. For solving both problems considering pump performance curves it has been suggested to use a speed controller to reduce pump speed.

scholarly journals A Practical Method for Speeding up the Cavitation Prediction in an Industrial Double-Suction Centrifugal Pump

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 2088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Pei ◽  
Majeed Koranteng Osman ◽  
Wenjie Wang ◽  
Desmond Appiah ◽  
Tingyun Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Centrifugal Pump ◽  
Optimization Design ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Computation Time ◽  
Practical Method ◽  
Optimization Methods ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Critical Cavitation

Researches have over the past few years have been applying optimization algorithms to quickly find optimum parameter combinations during cavitation optimization design. This method, although better than the traditional trial-and-error design method, consumes lots of computational resources, since it involves several numerical simulations to determine the critical cavitation point for each test case. As such, the Traditional method for NPSHr prediction was compared to a novel and alternative approach in an axially-split double-suction centrifugal pump. The independent and dependent variables are interchanged at the inlet and outlet boundary conditions, and an algorithm adapted to estimate the static pressure at the pump outlet. Experiments were conducted on an original size pump, and the two numerical procedures agreed very well with the hydraulic and cavitation results. For every flow condition, the time used by the computational resource to calculate the NPSHr for each method was recorded and compared. The total number of hours used by the new and alternative approach to estimate the NPSHr was reduced by 54.55% at 0.6 Qd, 45.45% at 0.8 Qd, 50% at 1.0 Qd, and 44.44% at 1.2 Qd respectively. This new method was demonstrated to be very efficient and robust for real engineering applications and can, therefore, be applied to reduce the computation time during the application of intelligent cavitation optimization methods in pump design.

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