scholarly journals Experimental Investigation of Unsteady Pressure Pulsation in New Type Dishwasher Pump with Special Double-Tongue Volute

Machines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
Yilei Zhu ◽  
Jinfeng Zhang ◽  
Yalin Li ◽  
Ping Huang ◽  
Hui Xu ◽  
...  

A pressure pulsation experiment of a dishwasher pump with a passive rotation double-tongue volute was carried out and compared with the pressure pulsation of a single-tongue volute and a static double-tongue volute. The pressure pulsation of the three volute models was compared and analyzed from two aspects of different impeller speeds and different monitoring points. The frequency domain and time–frequency domain of pressure pulsation were obtained by a Fourier transform and short-time Fourier transform, respectively. The results showed that the average pressure of each monitoring point on the rotating double-tongue volute was the smallest and that on the single-tongue volute was the largest. When the impeller rotates at 3000 rpm, there were eight peaks and valleys in the pressure pulsation time domain curve of the single-tongue volute, while the double-tongue volute was twice that of the single-tongue volute. Under different impeller speeds, the changing trends of pressure pulsation time and frequency domain curves of static and rotating double-tongue volutes at monitoring point p1 are basically the same. Therefore, a volute reference scheme with passive rotation speed is proposed in this study, which can effectively improve the flow pattern and reduce pressure inside the dishwasher pump, and also provide a new idea for rotor–rotor interference to guide the innovation of dishwashers.

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jinfeng Zhang ◽  
Yilei Zhu ◽  
Yalin Li ◽  
Ping Huang ◽  
Hui Xu ◽  
...  

Through numerical simulations, this work analyzes the unsteady pressure pulsation characteristics in new type of dishwasher pump with double tongue volute and single tongue volute, under volute static and rotation conditions. Likewise, the performance tests were also carried out to verify the numerical results. Multiple monitoring points were set at the various positions of new type dishwasher pump to collect the pressure pulsation signals, and the relevant frequency signals were obtained via Fast Fourier Transform, to analyze the influence of volute tongue and its passive speed on the pump performance. The results reveal that when the double tongue volute is stationary, the pressure pulsation amplitudes increase from the impeller inlet to the impeller outlet. Under the influence of shedding vortex, the pressure pulsation in the lateral region of tongue becomes disorganized, and the main frequency of pressure pulsation changes from blade frequency to shaft frequency. In addition, compared with the static volute, double tongue volute can effectively guide the water flow out of the tongue during the rotation process, thus ensuring good periodicity for pressure pulsation in the tongue region. Accordingly, a volute reference scheme with passive rotation speed is proposed in this study, which can effectively improve the pressure pulsation at tongue position, and provides a new idea for rotor-stator interference to guide the innovation of dishwasher.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2582
Author(s):  
Lucas M. Martinho ◽  
Alan C. Kubrusly ◽  
Nicolás Pérez ◽  
Jean Pierre von der Weid

The focused signal obtained by the time-reversal or the cross-correlation techniques of ultrasonic guided waves in plates changes when the medium is subject to strain, which can be used to monitor the medium strain level. In this paper, the sensitivity to strain of cross-correlated signals is enhanced by a post-processing filtering procedure aiming to preserve only strain-sensitive spectrum components. Two different strategies were adopted, based on the phase of either the Fourier transform or the short-time Fourier transform. Both use prior knowledge of the system impulse response at some strain level. The technique was evaluated in an aluminum plate, effectively providing up to twice higher sensitivity to strain. The sensitivity increase depends on a phase threshold parameter used in the filtering process. Its performance was assessed based on the sensitivity gain, the loss of energy concentration capability, and the value of the foreknown strain. Signals synthesized with the time–frequency representation, through the short-time Fourier transform, provided a better tradeoff between sensitivity gain and loss of energy concentration.


Coatings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 909
Author(s):  
Azamatjon Kakhramon ugli Malikov ◽  
Younho Cho ◽  
Young H. Kim ◽  
Jeongnam Kim ◽  
Junpil Park ◽  
...  

Ultrasonic non-destructive analysis is a promising and effective method for the inspection of protective coating materials. Offshore coating exhibits a high attenuation rate of ultrasonic energy due to the absorption and ultrasonic pulse echo testing becomes difficult due to the small amplitude of the second echo from the back wall of the coating layer. In order to address these problems, an advanced ultrasonic signal analysis has been proposed. An ultrasonic delay line was applied due to the high attenuation of the coating layer. A short-time Fourier transform (STFT) of the waveform was implemented to measure the thickness and state of bonding of coating materials. The thickness of the coating material was estimated by the projection of the STFT into the time-domain. The bonding and debonding of the coating layers were distinguished using the ratio of the STFT magnitude peaks of the two subsequent wave echoes. In addition, the advantage of the STFT-based approach is that it can accurately and quickly estimate the time of flight (TOF) of a signal even at low signal-to-noise ratios. Finally, a convolutional neural network (CNN) was applied to automatically determine the bonding state of the coatings. The time–frequency representation of the waveform was used as the input to the CNN. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method automatically determines the bonding state of the coatings with high accuracy. The present approach is more efficient compared to the method of estimating bonding state using attenuation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 1550021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Al-Manie ◽  
W. J. Wang

Due to the advantages offered by the S-transform (ST) distribution, it has been recently successfully implemented for various applications such as seismic and image processing. The desirable properties of the ST include a globally referenced phase as the case with the short time Fourier transform (STFT) while offering a higher spectral resolution as the wavelet transform (WT). However, this estimator suffers from some inherent disadvantages seen as poor energy concentration with higher frequencies. In order to improve the performance of the distribution, a modification to the existing technique is proposed. Additional parameters are proposed to control the window's width which can greatly enhance the signal representation in the time–frequency plane. The new estimator's performance is evaluated using synthetic signals as well as biomedical data. The required features of the ST which include invertability and phase information are still preserved.


2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Viet Khoa

This paper presents a wavelet spectrum technique for monitoring a sudden crack of a beam-like bridge structure during earthquake excitation. When there is a sudden crack caused by earthquake excitation the stiffness of the structure is changed leading to a sudden change in natural frequencies during vibration. It is difficult to monitor this sudden change in the frequency using conventional approaches such as Fourier transform because in Fourier transform the time information is lost so that it is impossible to analyse short time events. To overcome this disadvantage, wavelet spectrum, a time-frequency analysis, is used for monitoring a sudden change in frequency duringearthquake excitation for crack detection. In this study, a model of 3D crack is applied. The derivation of the stiffness matrix of a 3D cracked beam element with rectangular section adopted from fracture mechanics is presented. Numerical results showed that the sudden occurrence of the crack during earthquake excitation can be detected by the sudden change in frequency using wavelet power spectrum. When the crack depth increases, the instantaneous frequency (IF) of the structure is decreased.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denchai Worasawate ◽  
Warisara Asawaponwiput ◽  
Natsue Yoshimura ◽  
Apichart Intarapanich ◽  
Decho Surangsrirat

BACKGROUND Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system. The current diagnosis is dependent on clinical observation and the abilities and experience of a trained specialist. One of the symptoms that affect most patients over the course of their illness is voice impairment. OBJECTIVE Voice is one of the non-invasive data that can be collected remotely for diagnosis and disease progression monitoring. In this study, we analyzed voice recording data from a smartphone as a possible disease biomarker. The dataset is from one of the largest mobile PD studies, the mPower study. METHODS A total of 29,798 audio clips from 4,051 participants were used for the analysis. The voice recordings were from sustained phonation by the participant saying /aa/ for ten seconds into the iPhone microphone. The audio samples were converted to a spectrogram using a short-time Fourier transform. CNN models were then applied to classify the samples. RESULTS A total of 29,798 audio clips from 4,051 participants were used for the analysis. The voice recordings were from sustained phonation by the participant saying /aa/ for ten seconds into the iPhone microphone. The audio samples were converted to a spectrogram using a short-time Fourier transform. CNN models were then applied to classify the samples. CONCLUSIONS Classification accuracies of the proposed method with LeNet-5, ResNet-50, and VGGNet-16 are 97.7 ± 0.1%, 98.6 ± 0.2%, and 99.3 ± 0.1%, respectively. CLINICALTRIAL ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02696603; https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02696603


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