Impeller trimming is a proper way to alter the performance of centrifugal pump with a constant speed so as to meet the demand on the specified flow rate and head in pumping systems. The affinity law accounting for the impeller trimming is the key relation to determine the pump performance with a trimmed impeller. There seems no experimental study dealing with such an affinity law for centrifuga...

Major industrial sector are using, most pumps are of centrifugal type. Centrifugal pumps are widely used because of their design simplicity, high efficiency & low maintenance. Modern centrifugal pumps are not complex machines. Despite the simplicity of design and production, centrifugal pumps are still capable of posing complex puzzles during their operation. The performance of a pump must be m...

To compare the efficiency of pulmonary artery balloon counterpulsation and a centrifugal flow pump in reversing the hemodynamic consequences of acute right-sided heart failure, we employed both devices in 14 Yorkshire pigs in which right ventricular infarction was created via surgical ligation of branches of the right coronary artery. Pulmonary artery balloon counterpulsation improved some of t...

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...

We report our techniques on conducting a closed-circuit femoral-femoral bypass during descending aortic surgery by which collected blood can be easily returned into the right atrium. The main circuit was composed of a centrifugal pump, an artificial membrane lung, and a filter. A reservoir with a roller pump was connected to the main circuit via a filter. Extracorporeal circulation was establis...

For a hermetic reciprocating compressor of the household refrigerator, it is not economic to set a separate oil pump, because of cost and space demands. Its oil supply system is mainly promoted by a reed pump and the spiral groove on the shaft. When the compressor is operating, the oil climbs up the inner wall of the reed pump because of the centrifugal force. The height to which the oil could ...

BACKGROUND Centrifugal pumps are used increasingly for temporary mechanical support for the treatment of cardiogenic shock. However, centrifugal pumps can generate excessive negative pressure and are afterload sensitive. A previously developed modified roller pump mitigates these limitations both in vitro and in preliminary animal experiments. We report the results of intermediate-term testing ...

Patients supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or short-term centrifugal ventricular assist devices (VADs) are at risk for potential elevation of plasma-free hemoglobin (pfHb) during treatment. The use of pfHb testing allows detection of subclinical events with avoidance of propagating injury. Among 146 patients undergoing ECMO and VAD from 2009 to 2014, five patients experi...

Dense slurry flow through centrifugal pump casing has been modeled using the Eulerian-Eulerian approach with Eulerian multiphase model in FLUENT 6.1. First order upwinding is considered for the discretization of momentum, k and ε terms. SIMPLE algorithm has been applied for dealing with pressurevelocity coupling. A mixture property based k-ε turbulence model has been used for modeling turbulenc...

Centrifugal pumps are superior to roller pumps for extended support durations in terms of pump-induced haemolysis. In this study, we evaluated the commonly used Biomedicus BP 50 and compared it with the Jostra Rotaflow and a standard roller pump in an in vitro test circuit. Each circuit was run for a six-day period and repeated five times. Plasma haemoglobin values showed the roller pump to bec...