Thousands of cardiac failure patients per year in the United States could benefit from long-term mechanical circulatory support as destination therapy. To provide an improvement over currently available devices, we have designed a fully implantable axial-flow ventricular assist device with a magnetically levitated impeller (LEV-VAD). In contrast to currently available devices, the LEV-VAD has a...

The experimental investigation of a centrifugal compresso r is carried out to improve HCFC123 compression performance. A CFCll c ompressor applying HCFC123 shows a lowered adiabatic head rise, efficie ncy, and volume flow. Another CFC!l compressor with HCFC123 and a modifie d impeller shows a result comparable to the CFCll compression case. A tan dem impeller is designed to cover the volume flo...

In this paper, the reasons of damage water pumps parts of the air compressor cooling system were studied. To reach this goal, the works like preparing metallographic samples, evaluation of structure, investigation of mechanical properties, the alloy parts detection and chemical analysis of deposit and corrosion products collected from the parts were performed. According to studies and results o...

Impeller stirred tanks (STR) are commonly used in the chemical processing industries (CPI) for a variety of mixing and blending technologies. In the present research, a numerical study of flow and mixing inside turbulently agitated tanks were carried out. An efficient solution algorithm was developed to solve turbulent flow inside stirred tanks where the boundary conditions for moving impeller ...

In this paper, the data assembled concerning the agitation of a Newtonian fluid in a cylindrical vessel is disclosed. The stirred vessel is not provided with baffles and has a flat-bottom. The data presents some information on the characteristics of two impellers: a six-blade Rushton turbine and a six-blade paddle impeller. The flow patterns generated by both impellers are depicted and compared...

Fault diagnosis of monoblock centrifugal pump is conceived as a pattern recognition problem. There are three important phases involved in a pattern recognition namely feature extraction, feature selection and classification. In this study, stationary wavelet transform (SWT) is used for feature extraction and J48 algorithm is used for feature selection and classification. The different fault con...

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...

The analysis of impeller shape performance was carried out with the SST (Shear-Stress Transport) model coupled with the streamline curvature turbulence model. This model combines the advantages from the κ−ε and κ−ω models, ensuring proper relation between turbulent stress and turbulent kinetic energy and allowing accurate and robust prediction of the impeller blade flow separation. The Multiple...

This work describes the potential consequences associated with operating a centrifugal compressor in overload. Nomenclature is offered to explain what is meant by overload operation, and methods that are used by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end users to define overload limits are presented. The paper also describes the conditions that can lead to overload operation. Computational...

An experimental study has been conducted on the hydrodynamics of a stage mixer-settler to obtain an appropriate design. In this paper several tests was performed to investigate full factorial design of experiments. Since each test was repeated seven times, the repeatability of the test was confirmed (P=1 bar and T=25 °C). Sauter diameter was determined by photographing both the mix...