Tesla Bladed Pump (Disc Bladed Pump) Preliminary Experimental Performance Analysis

Yaguang Heng, Yuming Han, Huiyu Zhang, Weibin Zhang, Gérard Bois, Qifeng Jiang, Zhengwei Wang and Xiaobing Liu
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Yaguang Heng: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China
Yuming Han: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China
Huiyu Zhang: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China
Weibin Zhang: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China
Gérard Bois: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China
Qifeng Jiang: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China
Zhengwei Wang: Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, No. 30 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100084, China
Xiaobing Liu: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 18, 1-13

Abstract: A preliminary experimental work on a centrifugal pump model specifically designed to transport slurry and multiphase flows is presented. The impeller design corresponds to the so-called “Tesla Bladed Pump” adapted from an existing Discflow TM pump design for the petroleum deep-sea application. The overall performance results of such a specific pump design are presented for different rotational speeds and discussed in relation to affinity laws coefficients. The results show that the performance of the tested disc pump strongly differs from the conventional centrifugal bladed pump. A one-dimensional approach using complete Euler relation is used to explain the differences in the present case. Moreover, it has been found that available results in open literatures do not correspond to the real optimum conditions, more detailed research work must be performed to get a better understanding on this kind of bladed disc pump.

Keywords: centrifugal; tesla bladed pump; multiphase flow; experimental analysis; performance characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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