1618 On Similarity Law of Air-Water Two-phase Flow Performance of Centrifugal Pump

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007.2 (0) ◽  
pp. 247-248
Author(s):  
Naoki MATSUSHITA ◽  
Akinori FURUKAWA ◽  
Kusuo OKUMA ◽  
Tomomichi HASUI ◽  
Satoshi WATANABE
2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoki Matsushita ◽  
Akinori Furukawa ◽  
Satoshi Watanabe ◽  
Kusuo Okuma

Author(s):  
Naoki Matsushita ◽  
Satoshi Watanabe ◽  
Kusuo Okuma ◽  
Tomomichi Hasui ◽  
Akinori Furukawa

Air-water two-phase flow performance of conventional centrifugal pumps causes the impermissible head deterioration even at an inlet void fraction less than about 10%. A tandem arrangement of double rotating cascades and higher blade outlet angle more than 90° only in outer rotating cascade has been proposed as a centrifugal pump impeller with high performance in air-water two-phase flow condition. To obtain further improvement of pump performances, a diffuser cascade is installed downstream of impeller outlet. In design of air-water two-phase flow centrifugal pump in various size and operating conditions as well as in single-phase flow, similarity law of pump performances is very useful. The similarity law of impeller diameter, blade height and rotational speed is investigated for the proposed impeller in the present paper. As the results, the similarity law of impeller diameter and rotational speed is certified experimentally even in two-phase flow condition. In addition, influences of blade height on air-water two-phase flow performances indicate a little difference from the similarity law. This difference is, then, discussed by using the results of static head on the shroud wall and air behaviors in the impellers.


Author(s):  
Henrique Stel ◽  
Edgar Ofuchi ◽  
Dalton Bertoldi ◽  
Moisés Marcelino Neto ◽  
Rigoberto Morales ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Ribeiro Santa Cruz Mendoza ◽  
Rafael Dunaiski ◽  
Edgar Ofuchi ◽  
Henrique Stel ◽  
Rigoberto Morales

1978 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslaw Mikielewicz ◽  
David Gordon Wilson ◽  
Tak-Chee Chan ◽  
Albert L. Goldfinch

The semiempirical method described combines the ideal performance of a centrifugal pump with experimental data for single and two-phase flow to produce a so-called “head-loss ratio,” which is the apparent loss of head in two-phase flow divided by the loss of head in single-phase flow. This head-loss ratio is shown to be primarily a function of void fraction. It is demonstrated that the measured characteristics of a centrifugal pump operating in two-phase flow in normal rotation and normal and reversed flow directions (first and second -quadrant operation) and in reversed rotation and reversed flow direction (third-quadrant operation) can be reproduced with acceptable accuracy.


2010 ◽  
Vol 29-32 ◽  
pp. 658-663
Author(s):  
Chuan Jun Li ◽  
Gang Yu ◽  
Xin Wang

In order to acquire the solid-fluid two phase flow centrifugal pump’s slurry head according with the fact, the solid phase effect coefficient must be calculated precisely. By analysising the acting forces on the solid particle, its moving differential equation was established. And the calculating formula of the solid phase effect coefficient was deduced based on the equation. For the sake of verifying its validity, a test of contrast and comparison on the calculating slurry heads by some ways was carried out. The results shows that the relative error values of the slurry head calculated are less than 2.00% with a small and stably error band. The method has the advantage of simple calculating process, high accuracy, low randomness and good practicability.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Yanping Wang ◽  
Chuanfeng Han ◽  
Ye Zhou ◽  
Zhe Lin ◽  
Jianfeng Ma ◽  
...  

The demand for a centrifugal pump with open impellers for conveying dense fine particles in solid-liquid two-phase flow has increased significantly in actual engineering. The wear of dense fine particles on the centrifugal pump is also exceedingly prominent, which affects the engineering efficiency and economic benefits. The two-phase flow in the open centrifugal pump is three-dimensional and unsteady; the movement of high-volume concentration particles in the centrifugal pump and its mutual influence on the two-phase flow, which results in the calculation of wear, are very intricate. To study the wear characteristics of the centrifugal pump with open impeller with high-volume concentration particles more accurately, numerical simulation and experimental comparison are carried out for the impeller wear of dense fine particles transported by the centrifugal pump with open impellers. Considering the relationship between particles and walls, we used the Fluent 18.0 built-in rebound function and wear model. The RNG k-ε model and the DDPM model were adopted in the numerical simulation, and the numerical solution for centrifugal pump wear was performed under flow rate (9.6 m3·h−1, 12.8 m3·h−1, 16 m3·h−1, and 19.2 m3·h−1), different particle sizes (0.048 mm, 0.106 mm, 0.15 mm, 0.27 mm, and 0.425 mm), and different particle volume concentrations (10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, and 30%), respectively. By comparing the serious wear positions of the impeller, the experimental results correspond well with the numerical simulation, which can be used to predict and study the wear characteristics of the impeller. The results show that the most serious area of blade wear is the middle part of the pressure surface, followed by the middle part of the upper part of the blade. The wear of the impeller is greatly affected by relevant parameters, such as pump flow rate, particle diameter, and particle volume concentration. These results can provide some basis for the wear-resistant design of dense fine particle impeller.


Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuan Wang ◽  
Bo Hu ◽  
Yong Zhu ◽  
Xiuli Wang ◽  
Can Luo ◽  
...  

A self-priming centrifugal pump can be used in various areas such as agricultural irrigation, urban greening, and building water-supply. In order to simulate the gas-water two-phase flow in the self-priming process of a self-priming centrifugal pump, the unsteady numerical calculation of a typical self-priming centrifugal pump was performed using the ANSYS Computational Fluid X (ANSYS CFX) software. It was found that the whole self-priming process of a self-priming pump can be divided into three stages: the initial self-priming stage, the middle self-priming stage, and the final self-priming stage. Moreover, the self-priming time of the initial and final self-priming stages accounts for a small percentage of the whole self-priming process, while the middle self-priming stage is the main stage in the self-priming process and further determines the length of the self-priming time.


Author(s):  
Naoki Matsushita ◽  
Akinori Furukawa ◽  
Kusuo Okuma ◽  
Satoshi Watanabe

A tandem arrangement of double rotating cascades and single diffuser cascade, proposed as a centrifugal pump with high performance in air-water two-phase flow condition, yields lower head due to the smallness of the impeller outlet in comparison with a impeller with large outlet diameter and no diffuser. Influences of impeller diameter change and installation of diffuser blades on two-phase flow performance were experimentally investigated under the case of the same volute casing. As the result, the similarity law of the diameter of impeller having the similar blade geometry and the rotational speed is satisfied even in two-phase flow condition. Comparing pump performances between a large impeller without diffuser blades and a small one with diffuser blades, higher two-phase flow performance is obtained by controlling the rotational speed of a small impeller with diffuser blades in the range of small water flow rates, while a large impeller with no diffuser gives high performance in the range of high water flow rate and small air flow rate.


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