TY  - EJOU
AU  - Luo, Wenbin 
AU  - Wang, Youmin 
AU  - Yan, Yuting 
AU  - Shi, Yifang 
AU  - Zhang, Zhendong 

TI  - Optimization of the Structural Parameters of a Plastic Centrifugal Pump in the Framework of a Flow Field Analysis
T2  - Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing

PY  - 2022
VL  - 18
IS  - 3
SN  - 1555-2578

AB  - In order to determine the optimal structural parameters of a plastic centrifugal pump in the framework of an orthogonal-experiment approach, a numerical study of the related flow field has been performed using CFX. The thickness S, outlet angle β2, inlet angle β1, wrap angle, and inlet diameter D1 of the splitter blades have been considered as the variable factors, using the shaft power and efficiency of the pump as evaluation indices. Through a parametric analysis, the relative importance of the influence of each structural parameter on each evaluation index has been obtained, leading to the following combinations: β1 19°, β2 35°, S 2 mm, wrap angle 154°, and D1 85 mm (corresponding to the maximum efficiency of 75.48%); β1 19°, β2 20°, S 6 mm, wrap angle 158°, and D1 81 mm (corresponding to the minimum shaft power of 75.48%). Moreover, the grey correlation method has been applied to re-optimize the shaft power and efficiency of the pump, leading to the following optimal combination: β1 19°, β2 15°, S 4 mm, D1 81 mm, and wrap angle 152° (corresponding to the maximum efficiency of 71.81% and minimum shaft power of 2.187 kW).
KW  - Plastic centrifugal pump; splitter blade; orthogonal experiment; grey correlation method; optimal combination

DO  - 10.32604/fdmp.2022.019691