Energy Performance Prediction and Numerical Simulation Analysis for Screw Centrifugal Pump

Abstract:

To explore the screw centrifugal pump performance change, and the impact of solid-liquid two-phase flow on the screw centrifugal pump, the internal flow of type 150×100LN-32 centrifugal pump is used as the research object. Mixture multiphase flow model, standard k-ε turbulence model and the sliding mesh technique are used to carry out the unsteady numerical simulation to describe internal flow field in screw centrifugal pump. By Setting the monitoring point to get the pressure pulsation characteristics and predict the changes in the energy performance. Open laboratory bench tests are carried out to verify the reliability of the numerical methods. Based on this, the impact of the two-phase flow on the screw centrifugal pump is analyzed. The results indicate that the head-flow curve presents a hump-shaped with the increasing of the flow. The maximum of efficiency appears. At the same time, the change of the volume concentration of the solid phase has little effect on the energy performance of screw centrifugal pump. But at different times, the head decreases and the power increases with the increasing of the concentration.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 444-445)
• Pages: 1007-1014
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.444-445.1007
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Hui Quan, Ren Nian Li, Qing Miao Su, Wei Han, Xiao Rui Cheng
• Keywords: Experimental Testing, Numerical Simulation, Performance Prediction, Screw Centrifugal Pump, Two-Phase Flow

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