Analysis of Internal Flow and Wear Characteristics of Binary Mixture Particles in Centrifugal Pump Based on CFD-DEM

Wang, Yanping; He, Tielin; Ding, Qiangmin; Gao, Panlong; Tao, Ruilin; Zhu, Zuchao

doi:10.3390/pr10040681

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Section: Modeling and Meshingmentioning

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“…A structured grid is applied to the inlet and outlet, while an unstructured grid is applied to the impeller and volute. To ensure the convergence of the calculation results, the mesh size must be larger than the particle size [19], and the Element Quality should exceed 0.3. In order to avoid the influence of the grid configuration on simulation results, seven sets of grids were evaluated to confirm grid independence.…”

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“…(3) To ensure sufficient particle generation space, two-particle factories were set up as shown in Figure 4 [19]. Based on varying concentrations, the different incidence amounts of particles were adjusted at the entrance of the straight tube, and the initial velocity was set at 1 m/s.…”

Section: Boundary Conditionsmentioning

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“…(4) The impeller operates at a speed of 1450 r/min. The impeller is rotated about 1 • as the time step [19], that is, 1.15 × 10 −4 s, the convergence criterion is set to 1 × 10 −6 , and the maximum number of iterations is set to 40;…”

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Effect of the Volume Concentration of Binary Mixed Particles on the Flow and Wear Characteristics of Centrifugal Pumps

Wang,

Zu,

et al. 2024

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Solid–liquid two-phase centrifugal pumps are important fluid transport components in production and life. Most of the studies about the influence of solid-phase parameters on fluid transport mostly focus on single-component solid particles. In this work, two kinds of glass beads with particle sizes of 2 mm and 0.4 mm were used to study the effect of the binary mixed particle volume concentration on the internal flow and wear characteristics of a centrifugal pump. The flow distribution of the binary mixed particles in a centrifugal pump and the interactions between the particles and flow components at different volume concentrations (Cv = 5%, Cv = 7.5%, Cv = 10%, Cv = 12.5%, Cv = 15%) were studied using a Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM). The research results show that with the increase in particle volume concentration, the head and efficiency of the pump decrease. Additionally, the distributions of the particles with different concentrations in the impeller flow passage were obtained. Moreover, the coupling force of the flow field acting on the particles decreases with the increase in particle concentration and the time it takes to convey small particles decreases with the increase in concentration, while that of large particles decreases first and then increases. Furthermore, the contact force between the particles and the blade changes periodically with time, and the wear of the centrifugal pump is mainly concentrated on the pressure surface of the blade and the wall of the volute outlet side; the wear rate increases as the particle concentration increases.

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Section: Modeling and Meshingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Modeling and Meshingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Boundary Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Boundary Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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