In today’s business environment, paper companies are looking for new avenues to lower energy and operating costs. There is a growing awareness that centrifugal pump optimization can significantly reduce electrical energy demand while improving pump and process reliability. Proper pump selection, sizing and operation are important to mill economic performance. Historically, pump design has focus...

Centrifugal pumps find vast applications in modern machineries and often works either in series or parallel. In this experimental work, an attempt has been made to design and fabricate an experimental set-up that comprises of two centrifugal pumps arranged in such a manner that the experimental set-up works either individually or in series and in parallel combinations. The maximum value of effi...

The recent success of continuous-flow circulatory support devices has led to the growing acceptance of these devices as a viable therapeutic option for end-stage heart failure patients who are not responsive to current pharmacologic and electrophysiologic therapies. This article defines and clarifies the major classification of these pumps as axial or centrifugal continuous-flow devices by disc...

In this study, the performance of a centrifugal pump is investigated by adding polyacrylamide (PAM) polymer over the working fluid which is tap water in this case. PAM is a long chain polymer that leads to reduce the wall shear stress and drag in a turbulent fluid. Three different blade profiles including radial, straight backward and circular backward have been examined. For this purpose, a ce...

OBJECTIVES Reduction of cognitive function is a possible side effect after coronary artery surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). We investigated the effect of roller versus centrifugal pumps for CPB on cognitive performance in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). METHODS 50 consecutive CABG patients operated with centrifugal pump were compared to 50 roller pump pa...

An implantable centrifugal blood pump was developed for longterm ventricular assistance in cardiac patients. In vitro tests were performed, as wear evaluation, performance tests and hemolysis tests in human blood. Numerical computational simulations were performed during design process in order to predict its best geometry. Wear evaluations helped to select the best materials for double pivot b...

Traditional commercial centrifugal pump designs have specific speeds (Ns) greater than 500 because low values of Ns are usually associated with low efficiency, pulsation, and a drooping head characteristic. In this instance, acceptable hydraulic performance is achieved with a unique impeller design coupled with direct current (DC) motor characteristics. When the specific speed of a centrifugal ...

Centrifugal pumps are extensively used to transfer liquids to the required head with the help of centrifugal forces. The impeller forms the crucial part of the centrifugal pumps. Its shapes, dimensions, number of the blades affects the overall performance of the pumps.In this paper, effect of number of blades in the impellers are investigated using CFD tool. Considering the number of blades in ...

The flow in centrifugal pumps is exceedingly complex, involving curvature, system rotation, separation, turbulence, and secondary flows. Moreover, the geometry is often asymmetric due to the volute shape. As a result, the relative motion between impeller and volute generates an unstableness which affects not only the overall pump performance, but is also responsible for pressure fluctuations, h...