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An Analysis on Hydraulic Loss in a Co-Rotating Bladed Disc Pump

Yaguang Heng    
Kunjian He    
Qifeng Jiang    
Weibin Zhang    
Gérard Bois and Xiaobing Liu    

Resumen

Disc pumps rely on the shear force generated by a co-rotating disc to transport the fluid, the interaction between the fluid and impeller is weak, providing such pumps advantages when handling multi-phase flow. In the present study, a loss analysis is presented on a different kind of disc pump that combines both shear and pressure forces using a co-rotating disc pump and radial blades and that is often applied in marine petroleum engineering for mud-lifting. Experimental measurements on the overall pump performance were performed, and the subsequent hydraulic efficiency analysis shows that similarity laws can be applied for this pump. A particular analysis was specifically performed on the impeller and shows that the resulting loss analysis indicates that the increase in the static pressure is small and that the total pressure increase is mainly contributed to by the dynamic pressure change from the inlet to the outlet impeller sections. In addition, an evaluation of the individual loss levels is proposed in the impeller that is based on one-dimensional assumptions. This type of evaluation has never been proposed for present specific TBD pump designs in the available literature. The obtained results showed that the most important loss levels are roughly equally distributed between the incidence effects, inter-blade leakage, and bolts losses in the impeller, and that all together, they can reach 80% of the total impeller losses, while the blade-loading and friction losses are relatively small. The losses downstream of the impeller are significant; thus, a specific volute design that has been adapted for a disc impeller outlet flow pattern must be considered in order to achieve better performance. The present loss analysis was able to predict the corresponding disc pump performance well, achieving a maximum error rate of ±5% for a rather wide flow coefficient range. The proposed method can be considered to be a useful approach for research or for industrial teams who are working on the same kind of geometry by adopting the same data reduction analysis, allowing them to compare their own results with the present ones.

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