scholarly journals Flow pulsation reduction of a single-piston piezoelectric pump based on elastic cavity group and unloading valve

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 168781402110310
Author(s):  
Bin Wang ◽  
Nanyue Xu ◽  
Rongfei Yang

A piston piezoelectric (PZT) pump has many advantages for the use of light actuators. How to deal with the contradiction between the piston amount and oil delivery quality is an essence when designing the pump. In order to depress the pressure pulsation and flow pulsation in a single-piston PZT pump, a two-stage attenuator is proposed. It involves an elastic cavity group and an unloading valve. Unsteady flow inside the pump is numerically calculated and analyzed to reveal its delivery characteristic in the whole pumping cycle. The distributing process of the passive valves is obtained through the dynamic mesh technique. Influences of key design and operation factors on the delivery performance of the pump are analyzed. The results indicate that the flexible cavity group and the unloading valve arranged at the delivery port can reduce the flow pulsation by 45%. The design can effectively provide stable flow for the actuator in a certain frequency range.

2014 ◽  
Vol 703 ◽  
pp. 425-429
Author(s):  
Jun Fei Wu ◽  
Zhi Li ◽  
Fan Guo Meng ◽  
Ben Liang Yu

Compared with traditional screw pump,all-metal screw pump have more advantages in the oil extraction. In this paper, all-metal single screw pump's geometric model was made by PROE software; then the dynamic mesh technique was applied to mesh the model and constraint condition was applied in the ANSYS-FLUENT software. 3D flow field was numerical analyzed In that software, the impacts of screw speed on volume flow and volumetric efficiency were concluded, the conclusion can offer some valuable guidances to the all-metal single screw pump's design.


2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-480
Author(s):  
Baghdad Science Journal

This paper deals with numerical study of the flow of stable and fluid Allamstqr Aniotina in an area surrounded by a right-angled triangle has touched particularly valuable secondary flow cross section resulting from the pressure gradient In the first case was analyzed stable flow where he found that the equations of motion that describe the movement of the fluid


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1592
Author(s):  
Xin Chen ◽  
Shiyang Li ◽  
Dazhuan Wu ◽  
Shuai Yang ◽  
Peng Wu

In order to study the effects of the suction and discharge conditions on the hydraulic performance and unsteady flow phenomena of an axial-flow reactor coolant pump (RCP), three RCP models with different suction and discharge configurations are analyzed by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. The CFD results are validated by experimental data. The hydraulic performance of the three RCP models shows little difference. However, the unsteady flow phenomena of RCP are significantly affected by the variation of suction and discharge conditions. Compared with that of Model E-S (baseline, elbow-single nozzle), the pressure pulsation in rotating frame of Model S-S (straight pipe-single nozzle) and Model E-D (elbow-double nozzles) is weakened in different degrees and forms, due to the more uniform flow fields upstream and downstream of the impeller, respectively. It indicates that the generalized rotor-stator interaction (RSI) actually exists between the rotating impeller and all stationary components causing the circumferentially non-uniform flow. Furthermore, improving the circumferential uniformity of the flow upstream and downstream of impeller (suction and discharge flow) also contributes to reducing the radial dynamic fluid force acting on the impeller. Compared with those of Model E-S, the dynamic FX and FY of Model S-S are severely weakened, and those of Model E-D also gain a minor amplitude decrease at fBPF. In contrast, the general pressure pulsation in fixed frame is mainly related to the rotating impeller and barely affected by the suction and discharge conditions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 458-480
Author(s):  
Xiaoqi Jia ◽  
Sheng Yuan ◽  
Zuchao Zhu ◽  
Baoling Cui

Purpose Instantaneous radial force induced from unsteady flow will intensify vibration noise of the centrifugal pump, especially under off-design working conditions, which will affect safety reliability of pump operation in severe cases. This paper aims to conduct unsteady numerical computation on one centrifugal pump; thus, unsteady fluid radial force upon the impeller and volute is obtained, so as to study the evolution law of instantaneous radial force, the internal relationship between radial force and pressure pulsation, the relationship among each composition of radial force that the impeller received and the influence of leakage rate of front and back chamber on radial force. Design/methodology/approach The unsteady numerical simulation with SST k-ω turbulence model was carried out for a low specific-speed centrifugal pump using computational fluid dynamics codes FLUENT. The performance tests and pressure tests were conducted by a closed loop system. The performance curves and the pressure distribution from numerical simulation agree with that of the experiment conducted. The unsteady pressure distributions and the instantaneous radial forces induced from unsteady flow were analyzed under different flow rates. Contribution degrees of three components of the radial force on the impeller and the relation between the radial force and leakage rate were analyzed. Findings Radial force on the volute and pressure pulsation on the volute wall have the same distribution tendency, but in contrast to the distribution trend of the radial force on the impeller. In the component of radial force that the impeller received, radial force on the blade accounts for the main position. With the decrease of flow rate, ratio of the radial force on front and back casings will be increased; under large flow rate, vortex and flow blockage at volute section will enhance the pressure and radial force fluctuation greatly, and the pulsation degree may be much more intense than that of a smaller flow rate. Originality/value This paper revealed the relation of the radial force and the pressure pulsation. Meanwhile, contribution degrees of three components of the radial force on the impeller under different working conditions as well as the relation between the radial force and leakage rate of front and rear chambers were analyzed.


2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Bohn ◽  
Sabine Ausmeier ◽  
Jing Ren

A frozen rotor approach in a steady calculation and a sliding mesh approach in an unsteady simulation are performed in a stator clocking investigation. The clocking is executed on the second stator in a two-stage axial turbine over several circumferential positions. Flow field distributions as well as the estimated performances from two approaches are compared with each other. The optimum clocking positions are predicted based on the estimated efficiency from the two approaches. The consistence of the optimum clocking positions is discussed in the paper. The availability and the limit of the frozen rotor approach in predicting the optimum clocking position is analyzed. It is concluded that the frozen rotor approach is available to search the optimum clocking position in the preliminary design period, although it misses some features of the unsteady flow field in the multistage turbines.


Author(s):  
Shouqi Yuan ◽  
Jianping Yuan ◽  
Houlin Liu ◽  
Yue Tang ◽  
Jinfeng Zhang ◽  
...  

Centrifugal pump is widely used in various fields of the national economy. Pumps, of which 70% are centrifugal pumps, consume 20.9% of the total electricity generation nationwide in China in 2009, according to the statistics. In this paper, the research advances in design methods and characteristics of internal flow fields for centrifugal pumps, carried out by the Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering and Technology of Jiangsu University, is introduced. First of all, the Greater Flow Design method, Non-Overload Design method and Splitter Blade Offset Design method are fully discussed through systematically studies. In addition, three methods of performance prediction for centrifugal pumps are adopted, and a CAD/CFD software for hydraulic design and analysis is initially developed. Secondly, to deepen the understanding of characteristics of internal flow in centrifugal pumps, the numerical simulation and PIV measurement investigation have been done. Then the unsteady flow induced vibration and noise are studied considering fluid-structure interaction and fluid-sound interaction. The control of the unsteady flow in centrifugal pumps is also attempted to optimize the design method for centrifugal pumps. In addition, the pressure pulsation and vibration behaviors under both cavitation and non-cavitation conditions are obtained and analyzed. Finally, some detecting methods and criterion for cavitation incipiency and development are put forward.


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