Computer-Aided Model Validation and Performance Improvement of Submersible Pump Through Flow Simulation

EasyChair Preprint 9984

Abstract

This paper contains validation of actual response values of the pump and simulated experiment values and improves the performance of the submersible pump. The performance of a submersible pump mainly depends upon the pump impeller and casing. The design data and actual functional response values of a submersible pump model were provided by a leading pump manufacturing industry. Based on this, the pump impeller and casing were modeled using the parametric design modeling feature in Solidworks 2013. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis is adopted for predicting pump performance at various mass-flow rates, pressure head, and pump efficiency. The fluid flow simulation of the functional response values of the pump is carried out in the ANSYS-CFX tool. The actual response values of the pump and simulated experiment values are compared and the details are presented. The impeller design parameters impeller diameter, impeller vane width, number of vanes, impeller inlet vane angle and outlet vane angle are modified for the optimum conditions of the pump and the optimum ranges are selected from the literature review. The optimum ranges for various combinations of the pump design parameters are modeled and analyzed. The optimum and better performance of the submersible pump is predicted.

Keyphrases: ANSYS CFX, CFD analysis, Impeller Design, SolidWorks, Submersible pump

@booklet{EasyChair:9984,
  author    = {Vinoth Rengaraj and Madheswaran Subramaniyan and Omkar Singh and Navanendra Singh and Abhilasha Singh},
  title     = {Computer-Aided Model Validation and Performance Improvement of Submersible Pump Through Flow Simulation},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 9984},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2023}}