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2017,29(6):1085-1088
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-6058(16)60822-3
Design and experiment of the centrifugal pump impellers with twisted inlet vice
blades *
Abstract: In order to introduce gap drainage technology into practice, the design concept and expression format of spatial geometry
are proposed for gap drainage impeller with twisted vice blades. First, the profile of vice blade at leading edge and relative position
of main blade need to be parameterized. In addition, the influence of these parameters on the performance of a centrifugal pump
should be studied. After the above-mentioned work is done, a centrifugal pump with good performance can be designed. On the basis
of previous research results, the geometric parameters of twisted blades are determined and the centrifugal pump impellers are
designed and manufactured. Through performance tests and cavitation tests, it is verified that the twisted vice blades on centrifugal
pumps are effective and practical.
Key words: Centrifugal pump, gap drainage technique, twisted blade, parameterization, performance, experiment
Gap drainage technology is a design scheme for inlet flow channel area. This made flow velocity field
centrifugal pump impellers proposed by the author. distribution more uniform to reduce the energy loss, as
With the addition of a vice blade which is overlapped can be seen in Fig.1.
with main blade and hold a certain gap in the vicinity
of the leading edge of main blade, the flow in the
centrifugal pump is effectively controlled and there-
fore the performance is improved.
Since gap drainage impeller has been put forward,
the author and his collaborators have carried out a
series of research[1-7]. In terms of the design of gap
drainage impeller, the optimized design process of
vice blades are explored, as a preliminary. For the re-
search into mechanism, a scalable detached simulation
(SDES)[4] model was proposed and developed based
on the detached eddy simulation (DES)[8] method.
By numerical analysis based on SDES model and
flow visualization experiments[4], it was considered Fig.1 (Color online) Water velocity distributions[4]
that the leading edge deviating from original position
reduced the blade exclusion and the vice blades In addition, the separated flow would be sup-
overlapping partly with main blades increased the pressed at the leading edge as a result of guide flow
function of the vice blades of gap drainage impellers,
and high pressure fluid on the pressure surface passes
* Project supported by the National Natural Science through the gap into the suction surface which com-
Foundation of China (Grant No. 51379120). pensates pressure to low pressure zones to some
Biography: Hong-xun Chen (1962- ), Male, Ph. D., Professor extent. At the same time, the fluid ejected from the
gap produces a disturbance to the cavitation region,
which accelerates the cavity shedding and suppresses
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the formation of large cavitation area to improve the gap drainage blade can be described in Figs.3(a), 3(b).
cavitation performance, as are illustrated in Fig.2.
(4) The middle streamline is used as an example (10) The molded lines obtained by the above
to illustrate the drawing procedure of gap drainage method are fitted to the working surfaces of main and
blades. Based on the middle blade profile drawn in vice blade. According to the law of thickening blades,
Step 2, the positions that boundary layers are separa- the working surfaces are thickened to obtain the back
ted are inferred by experience. The truncation point surfaces of the main and vice blade.
B1G is determined preliminarily, and molded line Designing gap drainage blades need to determine
B1-B2 is divided into two segment (B1-B1G, B1G-B2). some additional parameters ( 1 , 2 , , gap ,
(5) The leading edge segment (B1-B1G) is re-
moved, and the position of the remaining part (B1G-B2) s ). Currently, these parameters are mainly deter-
remains unchanged. B1G-B2 is defined as the middle mined in accordance with the principle of reducing
molded line of main blade, and inlet angle 1b g of exclusion and suppressing flow separation, which are
determined by designer’s experience.
main blade are obtained. The wrap angle correspon- On the basis of the above, a centrifugal pump
ding to the middle molded line is defined as the wrap impeller with good performance is designed and
angle of main blade 2 . Generally, 2 should be manufactured as shown in Fig.3(c). And the hydraulic
less than 0 , which means main blade is slightly performance and cavitation performance tests are
carried out on the open loop test rig. The performance
shorter than entire blade designed according to tradi- curves in Fig.4 shows that the Q - ( Q and
tional method.
(6) The inlet location point (B1G) of main blade respectively represent the flow rate and efficiency)
along the streamline on meridional cross-section is curve of the gap pump is overall higher than the
moved to obtain the auxiliary point Bʹ. The movement traditional pump, which means all conditions have
been improved to some extent. The Q - H ( H is
distance (s) should be larger than thickness of the
the abbreviation of head) curves tend to be flat at
flow surface corresponding to this point. Then the
initial stages, and head of the gap pump is basically
point is rotated around Ζ axis to determine the the same as the traditional one under low flow rate
outlet location point (B2G) on the middle streamline. conditions. As flow rate increases, the Q - H curve
The intersection angle ( ) between the meridional
of the gap pump moves up as a whole. That is to say,
planes, where B1G and B2G locate, is defined as the head of the gap pump is higher than the traditional one
overlapping degree between vice blade and main under other conditions except for low flow rate
blade that should be determined according to conditions. Furthermore, the gap pump’s power is
experience. To ensure the smooth flow, the outlet widely lower than the traditional one’s, and the
angle ( 2b g ) of vice blade can be determined by difference decreases as flow rate increases.
referring the inlet angle ( 1b g ) of main blade. De-
pending on the actual situation, it could be made
appropriate adjustments.
(7) The wrap angle of vice blade is defined as 1 ,
and appropriate 1 is selected to re-determine the
inlet location point (B1) of the middle streamline and
determine the inlet angle (1b ) of vice blade. At this
time, the total wrap angle of vice blade and main
blade is defined as gap .
(8) According to the given law about drawing
blade profile described in Step 3, molded line B1-B2G
is drawn that be called the middle molded line of vice Fig.4 Performance curves of the two pumps
blade. At this point, the process of drawing the middle
molded line B1- B2G and B1G -B2 have been finished. Flow rate of the performance curves shown in
(9) Then, the procedure for segmenting of the Fig.4 is replaced by specific speed (denoted by ns ) as
initial blade, re-determining of the location points and the results shown in Fig.5. It is found that compared
reshaping the profile of vice blade is repeated. In with the traditional impeller, efficiency of the gap
accordance with the principle that molded lines should pump is improved under different specific speeds. And
be smoothly transited, the molded lines on front cover when ns is in the range from 35 to 70, the effect
(A1-A2G,, A1G-A2) and back cover (C1-C2G, C1G-C2)of
become more obvious.
the main and vice blade are drawn respectively.
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