HYDRAULIC MACHINES III

PUMP PERFORMANCE AND CHARACTERISTIC CURVES

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

3- The characteristic of a centrifugal pump handling water are given as:

m s
3

Q(

0.01 9.5 65

0.014 8.7 81

0.017 7.4 78

0.019 6.1 68

0.024 0.9 12

H( m) (%)

The system consists of 840m of 15cm diameter pipes with absolutes roughness 6x10-6m joining two reservoirs, the difference between water levels being 3m. Neglecting all losses except frictions. Determine the rate of flow between two reservoirs at the operation point and the power consumed by the pump. Take absolute viscosity of water as =1.14x10 Pa.s and =1000
-3

kg m
3

solution:

0.01 0.014 m3 Q Pump := 0.017 0.019 s 0.024

%1
:= 6 10
-6

9.5 8.7 HPump := 7.4 m 6.1 0.9

:= 1.14 10
-3

65 81 78 % 68 12 :=
7

for the reason of scale, efficiency I used reduction scale 1:7, that's why divided all efficiencies by 7

L := 840m

d := 15cm

z := 3m

Pa s

:= 1000

kg m
3

In the given data there no pipe friction factor, to get the system equation is needed, in t his case is necessary the interaction in order to get acceptable pipe friction factor

Interact pipe friction factor start by 0.01

2

f1 := 0.01

HSys f , L, Q Pump , d := z +

8 f L Q Pump g d
2 5

R( , Q , , d) :=

4 Q
d

f ( , d , R) :=

0.25

log + 5.74 3.7 d 0.9 R

HSys1 := z +

8 f1 L Q Pump g d
2 5

3.914 4.792 HSys1 = 5.642 m 6.301 8.266

head and flow rate form the graph at f1 = 0.01 H1 := 6.25m Q 1 := 0.018834 m s
3

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HYDRAULIC MACHINES III

PUMP PERFORMANCE AND CHARACTERISTIC CURVES

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

After getting the system equation always plot it to find the head and flow rate and then use it to calculate Reynolds number and new friction factor until getting the right one as show below: R2 := 4 Q 1
d

R2 = 140235.05

f2 :=

0.25

log + 5.74 3.7 d R2 0.9 4.551 6.039 HSys2 = 7.481 m 8.597 11.931
f3 :=

f2 = 0.017

HSys2 := z +

8 f2 L Q Pump g d
2 5

head and flow rate form the graph at f2 = 0.017 H2 := 7.4211m Q 2 := 0.016897 m s
3

R3 :=

4 Q 2
d

R3 = 125812.448

0.25

log + 5.74 3.7 d R3 0.9 4.583 6.102 HSys3 = 7.574 m 8.714 12.117
f4 :=

f3 = 0.0173

HSys3 := z +

8 f3 L Q Pump g d
2 5

head and flow rate form the graph at f3 = 0.0173 H3 := 7.4605m Q 3 := 0.016985 m s
3

R4 :=

4 Q 3
d

R4 = 126467.682

0.25

log + 5.74 3.7 d R4 0.9

3 := ( 11.143 ) ( 7) = 78.001 %

f4 = 0.0173

HSys.Ideal := HSys3

I multiply by 7 because of the scale that I used for efficiency

After getting the ideal pipe friction factor the one of the system3, m ean that the head, flow rate and efficiency of two reservoir is also from system 3, now we are able to calculate the power consum ed as show below
:= 9.81

kN m
3

Specific Density of water

Pcons :=

H3 Q 3 3

100

Pcons = 1.594 kW

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HYDRAULIC MACHINES III

PUMP PERFORMANCE AND CHARACTERISTIC CURVES

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

12 10.8 9.6

Head & Efficiency

8.4 7.2 6 4.8 3.6 2.4 1.2 0 0.01

0.0115

0.013

0.0145

0.016

0.0175

0.019

0.0205

0.022

0.0235

0.025

Flow Rate Pump Curve System Curve 1 with f1 System Curve 2 with f2 System Ideal Curve 3 with f3 Efficiency Curve

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