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Irene Fernández García, Daniele Novara and Aonghus Mc Nabola
Pressure Reducing Valves (PRV) have been widely used as a device to control pressure at nodes in water distribution networks and thus reduce leakages. However, an energy dissipation takes place during PRV operation. Thus, micro-hydropower turbines and, m...
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Andreas Neumann and Michaela Brchnelova
Electric space propulsion is a technology that is used in a continuously increasing number of spacecrafts. The qualification of these propulsion systems has to run in ground-based test facilities which requires long testing times and powerful pumping sys...
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Shangcong Zhang, Yongfang Li, Xuefei Chen, Ruyi Zhou, Ziran Wu and Taha Zarhmouti
Fire pumps are the key components of water supply in a firefighting system. At present, there is a lack of fire water pump testing methods that intelligently detect faulty states. Existing testing approaches require manual operation, which leads to low e...
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Yadong Zhu, Haifeng Jiao, Shihui Wang, Wenbo Zhu, Mengcheng Wang and Songshan Chen
In order to study the pressure pulsation characteristics and structural dynamic response characteristics of a vertical shaft cross-flow pump, this study used a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical simulation method to analyze the pressure pulsati...
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Baoling Cui and Mingyu Shi
Centrifugal pumps are essential fluid transfer devices in marine engineering. As the two most critical components of a centrifugal pump, the dynamic?static interference between the volute and the impeller makes the flow near the cutwater highly unstable,...
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Beichen Lu, Yanjun Liu, Xiaoyu Zhai, Li Zhang and Yun Chen
In recent years, clean and renewable energy sources have received much attention to balance the contradiction between resource needs and environmental sustainability. Among them, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), which consists of surface warm seaw...
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Wensi Li, Yu Zhang, Ruizhi Li, Lijun Zhang, Xingwang Zhang, Hongyin Li, Peng Nie and Shengdong Zhang
Currently, over 100 nuclear power units globally have been in operation for more than 40 years. Hindered by the limitations of computer technology at the time, these nuclear facilities lack detailed electronic drawings. Activities such as equipment repla...
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Weidong Cao, He Wang and Jian Tang
Guide vane submersible centrifugal pumps are a kind of submersible pump, and the fluid inside the pump is often mixed with gravel and other impurities during operation, affecting the pump?s operating efficiency and life expectancy. However, past studies ...
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Jafar Jafari-Asl, Seyed Arman Hashemi Monfared and Soroush Abolfathi
This study investigates the optimal and safe operation of pumping stations in water distribution systems (WDSs) with the aim of reducing the environmental footprint of water conveyance processes. We introduced the nonlinear chaotic honey badger algorithm...
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Lucrezia Manservigi, Mauro Venturini, Enzo Losi and Giulia Anna Maria Castorino
A pump as turbine (PAT) can be a cost-effective and versatile solution to recover energy in several fields of application. However, its optimal exploitation requires a reliable and general methodology for selecting the optimal turbomachine. To this purpo...
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