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Performance and Internal Flow Condition of Mini Centrifugal Pump with Splitter Blades

  • Shigemitsu, Toru;Fukutomi, Junichiro;Kaji, Kensuke;Wada, Takashi
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • 제6권1호
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2013
  • Mini centrifugal pumps having a diameter smaller than 100mm are employed in many fields. But the design method for the mini centrifugal pump is not established because the internal flow condition for these small-sized fluid machines is not clarified and conventional theory is not suitable for small-sized pumps. Therefore, mini centrifugal pumps with simple structure were investigated by this research. Splitter blades were adopted in this research to improve the performance and the internal flow condition of mini centrifugal pump which had large blade outlet angle. The original impeller without the splitter blades and the impeller with the splitter blades were prepared for an experiment. The performance tests are conducted with these rotors in order to investigate the effect of the splitter blades on performance and internal flow condition of mini centrifugal pump. On the other hand, a three dimensional steady numerical flow analysis is conducted with the commercial code (ANSYS-CFX) to investigate the internal flow condition in detail. It is clarified from experimental results that the performance of the mini centrifugal pump is improved by the effect of the splitter blades. Blade-to-blade low velocity regions are suppressed in the case with the splitter blades and total pressure loss regions are decreased. The effects of the splitter blades on the performance and the internal flow condition are discussed in this paper.

Influence of Blade Outlet Angle and Blade Thickness on Performance and Internal Flow Conditions of Mini Centrifugal Pump

  • Shigemitsu, Toru;Fukutomi, Junichiro;Kaji, Kensuke
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • 제4권3호
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    • pp.317-323
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    • 2011
  • Mini centrifugal pumps having a diameter smaller than 100mm are employed in many fields; automobile radiator pump, ventricular assist pump, cooling pump for electric devices and so on. Further, the needs for mini centrifugal pumps would become larger with the increase of the application of it for electrical machines. It is desirable that the mini centrifugal pump design be as simple as possible as precise manufacturing is required. But the design method for the mini centrifugal pump is not established because the internal flow condition for these small-sized fluid machines is not clarified and conventional theory is not suitable for small-sized pumps. Therefore, we started research on the mini centrifugal pump for the purpose of development of high performance mini centrifugal pumps with simple structure. Three types of rotors with different outlet angles are prepared for an experiment. The performance tests are conducted with these rotors in order to investigate the effect of the outlet angle on performance and internal flow condition of mini centrifugal pumps. In addition to that, the blade thickness is changed because blockage effect in the mini centrifugal pump becomes relatively larger than that of conventional pumps. On the other hand, a three dimensional steady numerical flow analysis is conducted with the commercial code (ANSYS-Fluent) to investigate the internal flow condition. It is clarified from the experimental results that head of the mini centrifugal pump increases according to the increase of the blade outlet angle and the decrease of the blade thickness. In the present paper, the performance of the mini centrifugal pump is shown and the internal flow condition is clarified with the results of the experiment and the numerical flow analysis. Furthermore, the effects of the blade outlet angle and the blade thickness on the performance are investigated and the internal flow of each type of rotor is clarified by the numerical analysis results.

Internal Flow Condition of High Power Contra-Rotating Small-Sized Axial Fan

  • Shigemitsu, Toru;Fukutomi, Junichiro;Agawa, Takuya
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • 제6권1호
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    • pp.25-32
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    • 2013
  • Data centers have been built with spread of cloud computing. Further, electric power consumption of it is growing rapidly. High power cooling small-sized fans; high pressure and large flow rate small-sized fan, are used for servers in the data centers and there is a strong demand to increase power of it because of increase of quantity of heat from the servers. Contra-rotating rotors have been adopted for some of high power cooling fans to meet the demand for high power. There is a limitation of space for servers and geometrical restriction for cooling fans because spokes to support fan motors, electrical power cables and so on should be installed in the cooling fans. It is important to clarify complicated internal flow condition and influence of a geometric shape of the cooling fans on performance to achieve high performance of the cooling fans. In the present paper, the performance and the flow condition of the high power contra-rotating small-sized axial fan with a 40mm square casing are shown by experimental and numerical results. Furthermore, influence of the geometrical shape of the small-sized cooling fan on the internal flow condition is clarified and design guideline to improve the performance is discussed.

Analysis on the performance and internal flow of a tubular type hydro turbine for vessel cooling system

  • Chen, Zhenmu;Kim, Joo-Cheong;Im, Myeong-Hwan;Choi, Young-Do
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • 제38권10호
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    • pp.1244-1250
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    • 2014
  • The temperature of the main engine cabin of commercial vessel is very high. The material SS-316L undergoes creep damage at temperatures exceeding $450^{\circ}C$. It is essential to maintain the highly stressed engine cabin below the creep regime. Hence, seawater is employed in this kind of maritime vehicles as cooling liquid. It obtains the thermal energy at the cooling pipe line after passing through main engine cooling system. To harness the energy in the seawater, a turbine can be installed to absorb the energy in the seawater before being released into the sea. In this study, a cooling pipe line is selected to apply the tubular type hydro turbine for transferring the energy. Numerical analysis for investigating the performance and the internal flow characteristics of the tubular turbine is conducted. The results show that the maximum efficiency of 85.8% is achieved although the efficiency drops rapidly at partial flow rate condition. The efficiency descends slowly at the condition of excess flow rate. There is a relatively wide operating range of flow rate of this turbine to keep high efficiency at the excess flow rate condition. For the internal flow of the turbine, there is uniform streamline on the suction and pressure sides of the blade at the design point. However, the secondary flow appears at the suction and pressure sidesat the excess flow rate.In addition, it appears only at pressure side at the partial flow rate condition.

Effervescent atomizer의 내부 유동에 따른 분무특성 (Spray characteristics of effervescent atomizer with internal flows)

  • 구건우;홍정구;김준희;이충원;박창대;임병주;정경열
    • 한국마린엔지니어링학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국마린엔지니어링학회 2012년도 전기공동학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.123-124
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    • 2012
  • Effervescent atomizer in which the liquid is ejected from nozzle with bubble caused by gas injection into the liquid is one of twin-fluid atomizers. Effervescent atomizer is operated with the lower injection pressure and the smaller air flow rate when compared with those of other twin-fluid atomizers. In this study, we attempted experiment study to investigate the atomization characteristics of effervescent atomizer related with the internal flow condition. The nozzle was made with acrylic material to investigate the nozzle internal flow. The macroscopic spray analysis was conducted with internal flow images and spray images. Furthermore, SMD was measured by using the laser diffraction method. According to this study, the internal flow condition changed from bubbly flow to annular flow as the air-liquid mass ratio(ALR) increases. At that time, the atomization characteristics were improved.

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Numerical Analysis of Flow in Radial Turbine (Effects of Nozzle Vane Angle on Internal Flow)

  • OTSUKA, Kenta;KOMATSU, Tomoya;TSUJITA, Hoshio;YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi;YAMAGATA, Akihiro
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.137-142
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    • 2016
  • Variable Geometry System (VGS) is widely applied to the nozzle vane for the radial inflow turbine constituting automotive turbochargers for the purpose of optimizing the power output at each operating condition. In order to improve the performance of radial turbines with VGS, it is necessary to clarify the influences of the setting angle of nozzle vane on the internal flow of radial turbine. However, the experimental measurements are considered to be difficult for the flow in radial turbines because of the small size and the high rotational speed. In the present study, the numerical calculations were carried out for the flow in the radial turbine at three operating conditions by applying the corresponding nozzle vane exit angles, which were set up in the experimental study, as the inlet boundary condition. The numerical results revealed the characteristic flow behaviors at each operating condition.

저 레이놀즈 수에서 실린더 경계 유속조건에 따른 흐름 특성 (Flow Characteristics According to Velocity Conditions of Cylinder Boundary Under Low Reynolds Number)

  • 송창근;서일원;김태원
    • 대한토목학회논문집
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    • 제33권6호
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    • pp.2267-2275
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    • 2013
  • 기존의 천수흐름 해석 상용모형에서는 내부 경계조건을 단순히 완전활동조건으로 가정하여 유체의 흐름을 해석함으로써 구조물 주위에서의 유속, 와도, 수위, 전단력의 분포, 항력 및 양력의 시간에 따른 변화 등을 올바르게 해석하지 못하였다. 본 연구에서는 구조물 주위에서의 흐름특성을 정확하게 예측할 수 있는 유한요소모형을 개발하고, 구조물에서의 경계조건을 활동길이를 이용한 부분활동조건으로 묘사하여 내부경계조건에 따른 원형 실린더 후면에서의 층류 흐름특성을 분석하였다. 종횡방향 유속 및 와도의 시간에 따른 변화, 후류길이, 활동길이에 따른 와류열의 변화와 질량보존율을 비교한 결과 완전활동조건을 부여한 경우에는 와류열이 전혀 형성되지 않고 완전한 층류흐름이 발생하였다. 부분활동조건을 입력한 경우 실린더 표면에서의 유속분포가 변화되어 전단력의 크기와 와도의 발생에 영향을 미치므로 무활조건을 부여한 경우에 비해 와류열의 발생 주기가 짧아졌다. 최대 질량보존 오차는 무활조건을 적용한 경우 0.73%로 나타났으며, 무활조건에 비해 부분활동조건을 부여한 경우의 오차율이 최대 0.21% 감소하였다.

Comparative analysis of internal flow characteristics of LBE-cooled fast reactor main coolant pump with different structures under reverse rotation accident conditions

  • Lu, Yonggang;Wang, Xiuli;Fu, Qiang;Zhao, Yuanyuan;Zhu, Rongsheng
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제53권7호
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    • pp.2207-2220
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    • 2021
  • Lead alloy is used as coolant in Lead-based cooled Fast Reactor (LFR). The natural characteristics of lead alloy are combined with the simple structural design of LFR. This constitutes the inherent safety characteristics of LFR. The main work of this paper is to take the main coolant pump (MCP) in the lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) as the research object, and to study the flow pattern distribution of the internal flow field under the reverse rotation pump condition, the reverse rotation positive-flow braking condition and the reverse rotation negative-flow braking condition. In this paper, the double-outlet volute type and the space guide vane are selected as the potential designs of the CLEAR-I MCP. In this paper, the CFD method is used to study the potential reverse accident of the MCP. It is found that the highest flow velocity in the impeller appears at the impeller outlet, and the Q-H curves of the two design programs basically coincide. The space guide vane type MCP has better hydraulic performance under the reverse rotation positive-flow condition, the Q-H curves of the two designs gradually separate with increasing flow rate, and the maximum flow velocity inside the space guide vane type MCP is obviously lower than that of the double-outlet volute type. For the reverse rotation test of MCP, only the condition of the forward rotating pump of the main coolant pump is tested and verified. For the simulation of the MCP in LBE medium, it proved that the turbulence model and basic settings selected in the simulation are reliable.

$CO_2$ 열펌프용 내부 열교환기의 냉방조건에서 열전달 및 압력 강하 특성에 대한 연구 (Study on Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Characteristics of Internal Heat Exchanger for $CO_2$ Heat Pump under Cooling Condition)

  • 김대훈;이상재;최준영;이재헌;권영철
    • 설비공학논문집
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    • 제20권8호
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    • pp.517-525
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    • 2008
  • In order to study the heat transfer and pressure drop of an internal heat exchanger for $CO_2$ heat pump under cooling condition, the experiment and numerical analysis were performed. Four kinds of internal heat exchangers with a coaxial tube type and a micro-channel tube type were used. The experimental apparatus consisted of a test section, a power supply, a heater, a chiller, a mass flow meter, a pump and a measurement system. The section-by-section method and Hardy-Cross method were used for the numerical analysis. The effects of the internal heat exchanger refrigerant flow rate, the length of the internal heat exchanger, the operating condition of the gas-cooler, the evaporator and the type of the internal heat exchangers were investigated. With increasing of the flow rate, the heat transfer rate increased about 25%. The heat transfer rate of the micro-channel tube type was higher about 100% than that of the coaxial tube type. With increasing of the length of the internal heat exchanger, the heat transfer rate increased about $20{\sim}50%$. The pressure drop of the low-side tube was larger compared with that of the high-side tube.

The effect of suction pipe leaning angle on the internal flow of pump sump

  • Lee, Youngbum;Kim, Kyung-Yup;Chen, Zhenmu;Choi, Young-Do
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • 제39권8호
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    • pp.849-855
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    • 2015
  • A better flow condition for the intake of pump is provided by the sump pump that connects the forebay to the intake of the pump station. If the suction sump is improperly shaped or sized, air-entraining vortices or submerged vortices may develop. These phenomena may greatly affect pump operation if vortices become sufficiently large. Moreover, any remaining vortices in the pump flow passage may result in an increase in the noise and vibration of the pump. Therefore, the vortices in the pump flow passage must be reduced to achieve good pump sump station performance. In this study, the effect of suction pipe leaning angle on the pump sump's internal flow is investigated. Additionally, a pipe type with an elbow shape is investigated. The results show that the air entraining vortices occur under the condition of a water level ratio H/D = 1.31 for each suction pipe type.