HYDRAULIC MACHINES III

VELOCITY TRIANGLE

Solution by DF Sozinando, Mechanical Eng. student at Vaal University of Technology

4- A centrifugal pum p delivers water against a head of 14.5 metres while running at 1000 rpm . The vanes are c urved backwards 30 at outlet. The im peller diam eter and its width at outlet are 300m m and 50m m respectively.Determine the discharge of pum p if the m anom etric efficiency 85%. Assum e zero whirl at inlet.

Solution: Hm := 14.5m N := 1000rpm

2 := 30

d2 := 300mm

b 2 := 50mm

m := 85%

d2 r2 := 2

U 2 := N r2 Hth := 1m Given
m =

U 2 = 15.708

m s

Hm Hth m s

Hth := Find Hth

( )

Hth = 17.059 m

vf := 1 Given

U2 - 1 Hth = U 2 - vf tan 2 g

( ( ))

vf := Find( vf) m s
3

vf = 2.92

m s

Q := 2 r2 b 2 vf

Q = 0.138

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