EP4283137A1 - Zentrifugalpumpe - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- the present invention relates to centrifugal pumps with semi-open impeller for transporting gas-liquid two-phase flows.
- the present invention relates to a design for centrifugal pumps with increased transport delivery capacity for gas-liquid two-phase flows.
- centrifugal pumps comprise a casing, typically having a volute form surrounding the impeller said impeller comprising a back plate onto which is mounted a number of blades, with a free space between adjacent blades, said free space being referred to "channel".
- a front shroud is arranged above the blades at a defined distance, the tip clearance gap or, simply, gap.
- the tip clearance gap between impeller and front shroud such impeller arrangement is known as semi-open impeller with standard gap and semi-open impeller with increased gap, respectively.
- Centrifugal pumps are well known devices for energy conversion where rotational energy of an impeller is transferred to the fluid that is to be transported.
- DE 35 44 566 A1 describes impellers for a semiradial or “mixed flow” type pump comprising openings in the back plate within the channels formed by adjacent blades for allowing the recirculation of the gaseous and liquid phases in order to ensure their mixing and avoiding accumulation of the gas.
- this object is solved by a centrifugal pump with semi-open impeller, wherein macroscopic grooves are provided to the surface of the front shroud directed towards the impeller blades.
- the macroscopic grooves of the present invention are characterized by having dimensions such as depth and width in the order of millimeter.
- the mixing effect of the secondary flow in the tip clearance gap across the impeller blades is maximized by creating intensified vortices, thereby delaying and reducing gas accumulation. In particular, good results can be obtained even at high gas content.
- the alignment of the grooves on the surface of the front shroud can be circumferential, radial, combinations of both of them, such as curved with radial and circumferential components, or any other configuration.
- the cross-section profile can be selected from rectangular, semi-circular, rectangular with curved corners, etc.
- the parameters defining the design of the macroscopic grooves of present invention include number of grooves, alignment, dimensions of grooves, cross-section profile, the inter-groove distance, and in case of radial grooves the length. It is understood that these parameters can vary depending on the particular configuration of the pump, working condition etc.
- At least one of the width, depth and radius, respectively is in the order of millimeter (mm), preferably width, depth and radius, respectively, are all in the order of millimeter (mm).
- the depth can be selected from 2 mm to 12 mm, preferably 3 mm to 10 mm, the width from 6 mm to 12 mm, preferably from 8 to 10 mm and the radius from 1 to 5 mm, respectively.
- the number of grooves is not particularly restricted, but can be selected according to need depending on the circumstances, such as design of pump and size of front shroud.
- a typical number of grooves ranges from 3 to 20, preferably 5 to 16.
- the length of the radial grooves is not particularly restricted.
- the radial grooves extend radially across the surface of the shroud.
- the length of the radial grooves can be less than the width of the front shroud, i.e. the distance between the inner and outer diameter of the front shroud.
- the radial grooves can start at a distance from the inner circumference and end at a distance from the outer circumference of the front shroud.
- the grooves in the front shroud increase the turbulence of the flow and mixing of the phases with development of strong secondary flow and many vortices, thereby avoiding or at least delaying gas accumulation and phase segregation.
- the outer diameter and total area, respectively, of the front shroud can vary according to need, for example depending on the design of the impeller and blades. Typically the outer diameter can range from 100 mm to 500 mm.
- the number of grooves can be adapted to the respective outer diameter.
- a larger area of the front shroud can require a larger number of grooves.
- FIG. 1 the structure of a typical centrifugal pump 1 with semi-open impeller 2 is shown with a representation of individual components in an exploded view.
- the impeller 2 has a back plate 3 onto which a number of diverging curved blades 4 is arranged. Above the blades 4 a front shroud 5, 7, 9 is provided at a defined distance forming a gap.
- a front shroud 9 of prior art a front shroud 9 with radial grooves 6, and one 7 with circumferential grooves 8, respectively, according to the present invention with the grooves 6, 8 being provided on the surface of the front shroud 5, 7 facing the blades 4.
- Impeller 2 and inducer 10 are mounted on the same shaft (not shown).
- the pump 1 has a volute casing 11 for housing the impeller 2 with pressure outlet 12 and inlet pipe 13 with mass flow inlet 14.
- the mass flow inlet 14 is divided into circular air inlet 15 located in the center and an annular water inlet 16 surrounding the circular air inlet 15.
- the impeller shown in Figures 2a and 2b is equipped with 6 non-twisted blades, while the inducer has 3 helical blades to provide low inlet solidity as described in Gülich, J.F., 2008, Centrifugal Pumps, Springer , with a detailed description of design procedures for pumps.
- Impeller Geometrical Dimensions Parameter Symbol Impeller blade inlet diameter D 1 Impeller blade outlet diameter D 2 Impeller blade inlet width b 1 Impeller blade outlet width b 2 Suction pipe diameter Ds Inducer hub to tip diameter ratio D h /D t Inducer blade axial length L b /D s Tip clearance gap (gap) S Radial tip clearance gap of inducer S i width of tip clearance gap S/b 2 width of inducer tip clearance gap S i /b 2
- FIG 3a a sample design of a front shroud 7 with circumferential grooves 8 is shown as top view and as section through line A - A of the top view.
- five circumferential grooves 8 are provided in coaxial manner on the front shroud 5, the circumferential grooves 8 having a rectangular cross-section profile as shown in the section view with W indicating the width and D the depth of each groove 8.
- FIG. 3b A sample design of a front shroud 5 with radial grooves 6 is shown in Figure 3b as top view and as section through line A-A of the top view.
- a number of sixteen radial grooves 6 is regularly distributed over the surface of the front shroud 5 and extends radially outward.
- the width of the grooves 6 increases with increasing diameter of the front shroud 5 where the referenced width being the width at mid-length of the radial grooves 6 resulting in a symmetrical trapezoid form. That is, here reference to width of the radial grooves relates to width at mid-length of the respective groove.
- the cross-section profile of the radial and circumferential grooves 6, 8 is rectangular.
- Figures 4a to 4d Some examples for different designs of the grooves for the front shroud according to the present invention are shown in Figures 4a to 4d as a section view through impeller 2 with back plate 3, blade 4, and front shroud with grooves.
- Figure 4a Shown in Figure 4a are circumferential grooves with rectangular cross-section profile with W being width and D being depth, Figure 4b circumferential grooves with semi-circular cross-section profile with r being the radius, Figure 4c circumferential grooves with rectangular cross-section profile and curved corners, and Figure 4d a front shroud with radial grooves with L being the length of the grooves and D being the depth.
- the pumps according to the present invention had a semi-open impeller with standard gap with the front shroud being provided with either radial or circumferential grooves.
- the setting for the impeller were the same as used for the prior art pump with standard gap as set out in Table 2 with reference to Figures 2a and 2b .
- the parameters changed in case of radial grooves were depth (D), width (W), and number of grooves (n g ) with the radial grooves stretching radially along the shroud.
- the length of the radial grooves was always constant and shorter than the blade radial length.
- Table 3 the details of all grooves combination according to this invention used in the examples are listed.
- Table 3 Parameter of grooves Groove type Groove name Groove crosssection No. of grooves Width (mm) W Depth (mm) D Radius (mm) r Length (mm) L Circumferential grooves C1 Rectangular 5 10 5 0 - C2 3 C3 8 8 C4 3 10 5 C5 Semicircular 3 0 0 5 Radial grooves R1 Rectangular 16 10 10 0 71 R2 8 R3 5 R4 8 10 R5 12 10 5
- the gas volume fraction ⁇ was set to 3 %.
- the results obtained for this setting of the gas volume fraction can be representative for higher gas volume fractions as has been shown in previous studies [1,2]. These studies show that a pump keeps its performance for higher gas volume fraction as found by a similar analysis concerning turbulence and mixing.
- the surface uniformity S u also called uniformity index
- S u also called uniformity index
- the value S u always ranges from S u , min and 1, with the minimum value being found at the inlet surface where the two phases are completely separated at injection.
- the non-dimensional mixing coefficient M c ranges between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates no mixing at all (gas and liquid are perfectly separated like in the injection plane of the inlet surface), while 1 indicates that the two phases are perfectly mixed.
- the pumps with grooved front shrouds of the present invention results in smaller and more dispersed gas bubbles compared to those of the prior art pumps.
- the radial grooves show an even higher number of smaller structures compared to the circumferential grooves particularly for nominal and overload conditions.
- the presence of the grooves results in formation of strong secondary flows with many vortices for both the circumferential and the radial grooves.
- the impeller blades move past the grooves, the vortices were stretched along the blades and the recirculation zones were fed continuously by the impeller rotation, which amplifies the mixing of the gas and the liquid. Higher turbulence and mixing levels are obtained which significantly support two-phase pumping, particularly at high gas volume fractions.
- the pumps with circumferential groves according to the present invention have improved flow mixing at part-load compared to the prior art pumps without inducer, yet less than the pump with inducer.
- all the examples of pumps with radial grooves according to the present invention are clearly better than all other configurations inclusive the prior art pump with inducer, leading to a strong improvement in two-phase mixing.
- the examples with radial grooves according to the present invention show at least as good results than the best prior art pump, i.e. the pump with inducer, with example R1 being much better than the prior art pump with inducer.
- the performance of the examples with radial grooves according to the present invention is significantly better than both that of the examples with circumferential grooves according to the present invention and the prior art pump with standard gap exceed the performance of the prior art pump with inducer, with R1 exceeding all the other pumps studied.
- pump R1 has the highest number of grooves, 16, and largest cross-section area. Consequently, it is believed that there is a positive correlation between the total area of the radial grooves and the resulting efficiency.
- the total area of the radial grooves A G is calculated by multiplying the number of grooves by the width and the depth.
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DE3544566A1 (de) | 1984-12-22 | 1986-07-03 | Rolls-Royce Ltd., London | Laufrad fuer eine zentrifugalpumpe |
JPH094585A (ja) * | 1995-06-20 | 1997-01-07 | Torishima Pump Mfg Co Ltd | 汚水ポンプ |
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DE3544566A1 (de) | 1984-12-22 | 1986-07-03 | Rolls-Royce Ltd., London | Laufrad fuer eine zentrifugalpumpe |
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GULICH, J.F.: "Centrifugal pumps", 2008, SPRINGER |
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