151. Effect of Internal Flow in Symmetric and Asymmetric Micro Regenerative Pump Impellers on Their Pressure Performance
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Hironori Horiguchi, Yoshinobu Tsujimoto, Shinji Matsumoto, Masaaki Sakagami, and Shigeo Tanaka
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Momentum (technical analysis) ,Angular momentum ,Materials science ,Internal flow ,Mechanical Engineering ,Mechanical engineering ,Mechanics ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Slip factor ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Physics::Fluid Dynamics ,Impeller ,Shear stress ,Head (vessel) ,Casing ,health care economics and organizations ,Pressure gradient - Abstract
The effect of internal flow in symmetric and asymmetric micro regenerative pump impellers on their pressure performance was studied. It was found that the shut off head of the pump with the symmetric impeller was about 2.5 times as that with the asymmetric impeller. The computation of the internal flow was performed to clarify the cause of the increase of the head. It was found that the contribution of the angular momentum supply was larger than that of shear stress for the head development for both cases. The larger head and momentum supply with the symmetric impeller were caused by larger recirculated flow rate and larger angular momentum difference between the inlet and outlet to the impeller. The larger recirculated flow rate was caused by smaller pressure gradient in the direction of recirculated flow. The decrease of the circumferential velocity in the casing was attributed to the smaller local flow rate in the casing.
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- 2009