The Effect of Air Injection Method on the Airlift Pump Performance

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Hu ◽  
Chuan-Lin Tang ◽  
Shu-Peng Cai ◽  
Feng-Hua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Volume Flow Rate ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Air Injection ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
Pump Performance ◽  
Dimensionless Equation ◽  
Measurement Results ◽  
Injection Methods

With simple structure, excellent reliability, low cost, no restriction at depth of water, and easy control and operation, airlift pumps have special advantage in borehole hydraulic jet mining, river dredging and deep sea mining. To clarify the mechanism and process of action of air injection methods on air lift performance, and to enhance lifting capacity, the pump performance of a small airlift system in transporting river sands is investigated experimentally in the present study. The results are as the follows. The influences of air exit ports on water volume flow rate, mass flow rate of solids and lifting efficiency are studied and found to be very low when the number of air exit ports exceeds 3. The pump design show best pumping capability for water and solids at higher air flow rates, but the lifting efficiency is then very low. In addition, a dimensionless equation which describes the flows in the pipe is presented based on the Bernoulli equation, and compared with measurement results in the dimensionless form, which are nearly in good agreement with each other for all the arrangements of air exit ports and are basically contained within ±18% of the theoretical curve. The results are important for understanding the mechanism of airlift pumps and enriching multiphase flow theory.

The Effect of Air Injector on the Performance of Airlift

2012 ◽  
Vol 516-517 ◽  
pp. 1022-1027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Hu ◽  
Chuan Lin Tang ◽  
Feng Hua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Marked Effect ◽  
Pipe Wall ◽  
Tangential Direction ◽  
Air Injection ◽  
Air Flow Rate ◽  
Injection Angle ◽  
Injection Methods ◽  
The One ◽  
Air Lift

In order to investigate the air injection method on the performance of an airlift. For this purpose an air lift system with a riser 2000 mm long and 80 mm in diameter, was designed and tested. Seven different air injection methods were used at a constant submergence. The experimental results showed a marked effect on the airlift performance when operated with different air injection methods. The arrangement of five nozzles gives the best performance, and the one nozzle is the worst. Although the injection angle has a little effect on the airlift performance, but view the general conclusions as a whole, the best lifting efficiency can be obtained when the angle of the nozzle placed along the tangential direction of pipe wall is equal to 10º at a given air flow rate QG =37m3/h.

3D Flow Simulation of a Twin-Screw Pump for the Analysis of Gap Flow Characteristics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Hassannejadmoghaddam ◽  
Boris Kutschelis ◽  
Frank Holz ◽  
Tomas Börjesson ◽  
Romuald Skoda
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Volume Flow Rate ◽  
Overset Grid ◽  
3D Flow ◽  
Screw Pump ◽  
Pump Performance ◽  
Gap Flow ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Twin Screw ◽  
Pump Head

Abstract Unsteady 3D flow simulations on a twin-screw pump are performed for an assessment of the radial, circumferential and flank gap flow effect on the pump performance. By means of the overset grid technique rigid computational grids around the counter-rotating spindles yield a high cell quality and a high spatial resolution of the gap backflow down to the viscous sublayer in terms of y^+ < 1 . An optimization of the hole-cutting process is performed on a generic gap flow and transferred to the complex moving gaps in the pump. Grid independence is ensured, and conservation properties of the overset grid interpolation technique are assessed. Simulation results are validated against measured pump characteristics. Pump performance in terms of pressure build-up along the flow path through the spindles and volume flow rate is presented for a wide range of spindle speed and pump head. Flow rate fluctuations are found to depend on head but hardly on speed. By a profound assessment of the respective radial, circumferential and flank gap contribution to the total backflow, the importance of the most complex flank gap is pointed out. Backflow rate characteristics in dependence on the pump head and the pump speed are presented.

scholarly journals System for measuring vacuum-pump performance using the standard throughput method

ACTA IMEKO ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Sheng-Jui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Volume Flow Rate ◽  
Test Chamber ◽  
Vacuum Pump ◽  
Volume Flow ◽  
Vacuum System ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Pump Performance ◽  
Two Parameters ◽  
Performance Results

Ultimate pressure of a vacuum system is determined by two parameters, namely the total gas load of vacuum system and the pumping speed (volume flow rate) of vacuum pump.  After the total gas load of a system is estimated, the required pumping speed can be set.  In this study, we constructed a system for measuring the pumping speed of vacuum pump according to ISO 21360-1:2012, in which three methods are described, i.e. the throughput method, the orifice method and the pump-down method.  The vacuum pump under test is designed to be used in low vacuum range for evacuating a chamber at high pumping speed.  For this reason, the throughput method was selected as the main method.  The system consists of pressure gauges, thermometers, a flow meter and a test chamber.  The system was used to measure the pumping speed at the inlet of the vacuum pump at several pressure points.  We present the system setup, uncertainty evaluation and vacuum-pump performance results of this work.

scholarly journals Evaluation of thermal performance for natural and forced draft wet cooling tower

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 6007-6021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Al-Dulaimi ◽  
F. A. Kareem ◽  
F. A. Hamad
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Thermal Performance ◽  
Cooling Tower ◽  
Volume Flow Rate ◽  
Volume Flow ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Axial Fan ◽  
Natural Draft ◽  
Forced Draft

This paper presents an experimental and numerical investigation of the thermal performance of natural draft wet cooling tower (NDWCT). The experimental investigation is carried out under natural draft condition and forced draft condition created by an axial fan. The operational parameters considered in this study are the thickness of the fill (10 and 20 cm), inlet water temperature (40, 45, and 50 °C) and inlet water volume flow rate (5.68, 7.75, and 9.46 L/min). The experimental results showed that the thermal performance is improved when the fans are used with the NDWCT. The temperature difference between inlet and outlet and effectiveness increase by 35% and 37.2%, respectively at fill thickness of 20 cm and water volume flow rate of 11.35 L/min. The temperature distribution of the air and the relative humidity were numerically simulated for both cases of natural and forced draft by employing the commercial CFD software ANSYS Fluent 15. The experimental and numerical results were validated with results from a previous work and showed a good agreement. The experimental results showed that the effectiveness increase by 22% and 30% for NDWCT and FDWCT respectively when in case of fill thickness 20 cm.

scholarly journals C INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT AUGMENTATION IN DIVERGENT RECTANGULAR DUCT FOR TWO PHASES FLOW (AIR-WATER)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Hadi O . Basher ◽  
Riyadh S Al-Turaihi ◽  
Ahmed A. Shubba
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Volume Flow Rate ◽  
Volume Flow ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Maximum Heat ◽  
Air Volume ◽  
The Heat Transfer Coefficient

In this project, the flow distribution for air and water, and the enhancement of the heattransfer coefficient are experimentally studied. Experimental studies have been performed totest the influence of discharge, pitch, the height of ribs at a constant heat flux on thetemperature and pressure distributions. Along the channel of the test and the heat transfercoefficient, the water volume flow rate was about (5-12 L/min), the air volume flow rate wasabout (5.83-16.66 L/min), and heat were (80, 100,120, watt). An experimental rig wasconstructed within the test whole system. On the other hands, the channel has a divergentsection with an angle =15o with vertical axis. The study included changing in the ribs heightby using three values (12, 15, 18 mm) and changing the ribs pitch into three values (5, 8, 10mm).The results indicated an increasing in the local heat transfer coefficient as a result ofincreasing the discharge. While there was an inverse influence for the temperature distributionalong the test channel which drops when the discharge rise. The results also confirm that theincreasing in the pitch distance leads to reduce the heat transfer coefficient. Increasing theribs height increases the coefficient of heat transfer. However, the experiment heat transfercoefficient improves about (15.6 %) when the water volume flow rate increased from (5 to 12L/min), and about (18.7%) when the air volume flow rate increased from (5.83 to 16.66L/min). The best heat transfer coefficient was about (35.6 %) which can be achieved whenthe pitch decreased from (10 to 5mm). The increasing of the height from (12 to 18) mmimproves the heat transfer coefficient about (11.2 %). The best rib dimension was 18 mmheight, and 5 mm pitch, which give a maximum heat transfer coefficient (1212.02 W/m2. oC).

scholarly journals Analytical Model for the Flow in Progressing Cavity Pump with the Metallic Stator and Rotor in Clearance Fit

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zheng ◽  
Xiaodong Wu ◽  
Guoqing Han ◽  
Huachang Li ◽  
Yi Zuo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Model ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
High Rotational Speed ◽  
Pump Performance ◽  
Petroleum Equipment ◽  
Volumetric Rate ◽  
And Performance

As the metallic stator progressing cavity pump (PCP) operates with the stator and rotor in clearance fit, the slippage between cavities has a significant influence on the pump performance. In this paper, an analytical model is developed for the flow in the metallic stator PCP. Based on the analyses of the meshing movement and the clearance geometry inside the pump, the slippage through the transversal and longitudinal sealing regions is calculated considering different slippage mechanisms. Then the flow rate is obtained by subtracting the total slippage from the theoretical volumetric rate. This model is validated against results obtained from the performance experiments of commercial metallic stator PCP products from Shihong Petroleum Equipment Company. The model results show that the metallic stator PCP with smaller clearance or more stages is more capable of achieving good performance at high differential pressure. It is suitable for pumping the fluid with certain viscosity, and the influence of the slippage can be compensated by adopting appropriate high rotational speed. Furthermore, the model can be used to predict the pump performance and provide guidance for the pump design and performance optimization in field applications.

Investigation on Performance Conversion of Centrifugal Oil Pumps Used in China

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dun-Song Xue ◽  
Guang-Jun Cao ◽  
Xiao-Ling Chen
Keyword(s):  
Correction Factor ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Performance Tests ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
Pump Performance ◽  
Oil Pump ◽  
Impeller Outlet

A series of performance tests with different specific speeds (40, 50, 80, 90 and 130) were carried out on centrifugal oil pumps used in China’s oil industry under different conditions of liquid viscosities (1–300mm2/s) and pump rotating speeds (1000–3000rpm). The effect of viscosity on centrifugal oil pump performance and cavitations characteristic has been investigated. By considering the effects of flow rate viscosity and pump design parametric such as impeller outlet diameter and outlet width on the pump cavitations characteristics, a new performance and cavitations conversion correction factor diagram was plotted.

An Experimental Study of Heat Transfer Coefficient in a Bubble Flow throughout an Annulus Pipe Heated at Inner Wall

2014 ◽  
Vol 660 ◽  
pp. 654-658
Author(s):  
Sarjito ◽  
Sartono Putro ◽  
Nurmuntaha Agung Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Volume Flow Rate ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Maximum Heat ◽  
Maximum Heat Transfer ◽  
Water Mass Flow Rate

The aim of the research work describe in this paper is to investigate correlation of water, air massflow rate and calor fluks to heat transfer coefficient. The investigation was carried out toward a pipe section test developed from acrylic with diameter of 60 mm and 210 mm length, therefore, the buble can be easier to shoot. A concurrent water were flowed upward and air was injected from the bottom. The wall of the heater was heated using two thermocouple installed at the outer surfece of the heater. The fluid flow was measured using thermocouple installed along the annulus pipe. A heater with transparent tube diameter of 50 mm and 1800 mm length was also installed, and supplied with 1000 Watt electric power. Result of the experiment showed that heat transfer coefficient incresed along with the air massflow rate increased, and its decreased with the increasing of water mass flow rate. The maximum heat transfer coefficient of 4340,602 W/m2 °C at electric fluck calor of 29582,448 W/m2 was echieved on water volume flow rate of 3 lpm and 9 lpm of air volume rate.

Design Optimization of Fixed-Valve Micropumps for Miniature Cooling Systems

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred K. Forster ◽  
Travis Walter
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamic ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
System Modeling ◽  
Load Flow ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Liquid Cooling ◽  
Cooling Systems ◽  
Load Pressure ◽  
Pump Design ◽  
Pump Performance

The piezoelectrically driven fixed-valve micropump may be an attractive choice for miniature liquid cooling systems due to its low-cost potential and simple fabrication. The thin, stackable design can be fabricated in many materials, including silicon, metal and plastic. Previous linear system modeling has been used to predict resonant behavior in terms of valve Reynolds number and used as a guideline for design, but can not yield predictions of pressure and flow, which depend on nonlinear fluid dynamic phenomena. In this study we report an extended model that incorporates the calculation of block-load pressure and no-load flow in a manner such that thousands of designs can be analyzed quickly. The results indicate that by calculating these two pump performance parameters over a design space of valve size and actuator stiffness, pump design is better able to match pump performance to system requirements. Experimental verification was performed using prototype pumps with interchangeable plastic and metal parts to demonstrate the approach for these two low cost materials.

Impact of Structure Design of Artififical Upwelling Tube

2014 ◽  
Vol 496-500 ◽  
pp. 547-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Ying Leng ◽  
Jia Wang Chen ◽  
Hao Cai Huang ◽  
Shan Lin ◽  
Ming Zhou Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Volume Flow Rate ◽  
Free Water ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Volume Flow ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Nutrient Distribution ◽  
Surrounding Water ◽  
Deep Ocean Water

Deep ocean water (DOW) is cold, nutrient-rich and pathogen-free water, which can be transported to the surface by upwelling. Upwelling can change the temperature and nutrient distribution of the surrounding water, hence improves the marine ecological environment and the marine primary productivity. Two lake experiments were accomplished in Qiandao Lake .The first experiment was done with hard PVC upwelling tube, while in the second experiment , the upwelling tubes with different diameters (0.5 m, 1 m, 1.5 m and 2 m) were made of nylon ,which are supported by rings. It can be concluded that upwelling ratio (the ratio of water volume flow rate and air volume flow rate) of the hard PVC upwelling tube was higher than that of soft nylon upwelling tube, and in condition of soft nylon upwelling tube, upwelling ratio of 1 m diameter tube was higher than that of others, providing important guidance for the next sea trial.

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