Effect of coating thickness on a solid-liquid two-phase flow centrifugal pump under water medium

Luo, Kaikai (author), Wang, Yong (author), Liu, Houlin (author), Dular, Matevž (author), Chen, Jie (author), Zhang, Zilong (author)

Spraying a coating on the surface of wet parts of a solid-liquid two-phase flow centrifugal pump could effectively increase its service life. To research the effect of coating thickness on the performance of the pump, a solid-liquid two-phase flow pump with a speed of ns = 81.5 was chosen, and polyurethane coatings with different thicknesses were sprayed on the surface of the blades of the impeller. The influence of coating thickness on the performance of the pump was tested under the condition of a water medium. Combined with numerical simulation, the internal flow, pressure fluctuations and radial force of the model pump were further analysed in detail. Keeping the blade outlet angle unchanged, the head and efficiency of the pump decrease with the increase of the coating thickness, and the amplitude of the decrease increases with the increase of the coating thickness. The peak value of pressure fluctuations increases with the increase of coating thickness. The pressure value on the impeller inlet increases first and then decreases with the increase of coating thickness. Radial force of impeller increases with the increase of coating thickness, and the radial force distributes in the triangle, which is the same as the number of blades.

• Language: English
• Keywords: coating thickness, solid-liquid two-phase flow pumps, numerical simulation, pressure fluctuation, radial force
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 251-261
• Numbering: Vol. 65, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-126369
• UDC: 621.67:519.6(045)
• ISSN on article: 0039-2480
• URN: URN:NBN:SI:doc-8N0JIVPU
• DOI: 10.5545/sv-jme.2018.5865
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16618779
• Publication date in RUL: 19.04.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Strojniški vestnik
• Shortened title: Stroj. vestn.
• Publisher: Zveza strojnih inženirjev in tehnikov Slovenije [etc.], = Association of Mechanical Engineers and Technicians of Slovenia [etc.
• ISSN: 0039-2480
• COBISS.SI-ID: 762116

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Vpliv debeline prevleke na tok tekočine in trdnih delcev v centrifugalni črpalki
• Keywords: debelina prevleke, dvofazne črpalke, numerična simulacija, nihanje tlaka, radialna sila