Study on the influence of blade outlet cutting on hydraulic noise of centrifugal pump with low specific speed

In order to study the influence of blade outlet cutting width on hydrodynamic excitation noise of the centrifugal pump with low specific speed, five schemes are used to perform V-shaped cutting on the outlet of the impeller blade are studied in this study. Based on Lighthill acoustic analogy, combin...

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Main Authors: Xiaorui Cheng, Tianpeng Li, Peng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-09-01
Series:Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814020960630
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Summary:In order to study the influence of blade outlet cutting width on hydrodynamic excitation noise of the centrifugal pump with low specific speed, five schemes are used to perform V-shaped cutting on the outlet of the impeller blade are studied in this study. Based on Lighthill acoustic analogy, combining computational fluid dynamics and computational acoustics, RNG k-ε turbulence model is used to calculate internal unsteady flow field of the centrifugal pump, and the acoustic solution is based on the flow field calculation. The results show that the pressure pulsation can reflect the sound pressure level to a certain extent; proper cutting of the blade outlet can improve the flow state of the rear cavity of the centrifugal pump and make the flow uniform; the V-shaped cutting of the blade outlet also can reduce the dynamic and static interference between the impeller outlet and the volute tongue, effectively reducing the sound pressure level of the internal sound field, when the blade outlet cutting width is a / b 2  = 33.33%, the inlet sound pressure level and the outlet sound pressure level are decreased by 4.8% and 7.2%, respectively. In terms of internal sound field, the sound pressure level at the outlet of the pump is obviously higher than that at the inlet.
ISSN:1687-8140