Research on Visualization of Inducer Cavitation of High-Speed Centrifugal Pump in Low Flow Conditions

Inducer is often used to improve the cavitation performance of pump. In order to study the cavitation characteristics of inducer under low flow condition of high-speed pump, high-speed photography technology was employed in this paper to carry out visual experiments on the inducer of a high-speed ce...

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Autores principales: Zhenfa Xu, Fanyu Kong, Hongli Zhang, Kun Zhang, Jiaqiong Wang, Ning Qiu
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/dd9835026656454686308d7ad865d454
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Sumario:Inducer is often used to improve the cavitation performance of pump. In order to study the cavitation characteristics of inducer under low flow condition of high-speed pump, high-speed photography technology was employed in this paper to carry out visual experiments on the inducer of a high-speed centrifugal pump. In low flow rates, Cavitation distribution and evolution among the inducer were captured. The experimental results revealed that a band-shaped backflow vortex in the inlet pipe would occur when the flow rate was less than 0.3 Q<sub>d</sub>. Moreover, the backflow vortex in the inlet pipe rotated with the inducer and the rotational speed of backflow vortex was approximately half of the inducer. The visualization test of 0.27 Q<sub>d</sub> was carried out: when the NPSH was greater than 6.72 m, the bubbles in the inlet pipe were asymmetrical; When the NPSH dropped to 5.41 m, the cavitation was becoming less asymmetrical; When NPSH dropped to 3.81 m, cavitation evolved to the deteriorating stage, plenty of bubbles entered into the main impeller, resulting in a rapid decline of pump performance. Furthermore, the cavitation performance was worse at an extreme flow rate, and the NPSH value of 0.27 Q<sub>d</sub> was 7.5% greater than that under design condition.