A series of experiments has been conducted to identify the effects of both fluid viscosity and wear-rings gap on the performance of a low specific speed industrial centrifugal pump of type 65Y60 for transporting viscous oils by the author group. Unfortunately, the experimental results remained unexplained on a fluid dynamics base. To remedy this problem, a highly viscous oil flow model and computational method in the side chambers in that pump were proposed based on the existing theoretical and experimental results. The flow coupling between the chambers and the gaps of the wear-rings and/or the balance holes was realized. The model was validated by making use of the existing experiment data in the chamber between a rotating disk and the walls of a stationary cylindrical container. Then the flow model was applied into the two side chambers in that pump when the wear-rings clearances and liquid viscosity were changed. The results demonstrated that the flow model is sensitive to wear-rings gap, liquid viscosity, the roughness of the wet walls of the chambers, and leakage flow rate. For this pump, an enlarged clearance can improve the mechanical efficiency, but the increment in the efficiency is unable to compensate for the considerable drop in the volumetric efficiency, causing the gross efficiency not be improved, especially at a high viscosity.
Issue Section:
Multiphase Flows
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