INDUS

UNIVERSITY
INDUSTRY DEFINED PROJECT
SUBJECT CODE-170001
B.E (MECHANICAL-A)
7TH SEMESTER
YEAR-2013

GROUP DETAILS:

GROUP NO :- 34
GROUP ID : 130006230
SR NO

STUDENT NAME

ROLL NO.

ENROLLMENT
NO.

1.

YASAR MANSURI

10BMER033

100250119055

2.

CHETAN PARMAR

10BMER038

100250119086

3.

CHIRAG PATEL

10BMER044

100250119039

INDUSRY DETAIL

Uttam industries
Address: Plot No.5302,
Phase-4,GIDC,
Vatva,
Ahmedabad - 382445

Guide details:
Faculty guide:
prof. Maitrik Shah
Mechanical department
Cont no. 9725852858

External guide:
Mr. N.B.Patel
Cont no.9898489102

Companys profile

The company was established in the year of

1992.
UTTAM INDUSTRIES an IS-8034:2002 & ISO9001:2000 certified company is a
professionally managed with manufacturing
of super quality pumps.
Companys product range includes V-6,V-7,V8 &horizontal monoset (open well).

PROJECT DEFENITION

Improvement in overall
efficiency of submersible
pump , by reducing its
various hydraulic losses by
varying design parameters
of impeller.

Why we selected this project?

Now a days energy conservation has become very

important all over the world. Even a little
improvement in the efficiency can save a lot over a
considerable span of time.
Hence it has encouraged us to take it as a challenge
to study the submersible pump set and improve its
efficiency for contribution to energy conservation.

Why submersible pump is

required?

Normally, water level is below the ground level up to

500 feet.
Conventional centrifugal pump can lift the water
maximum up to 27 feet below the ground level.
Hence, the special design pump was developed which
can be lowered in the bore well up to or below the
water level to pump the water from the under
ground.

Working of submersible pump.

A hermetically sealed motor close-coupled to

the pump body.
The whole assembly is submerged in the
water.
Multistage centrifugal pumps operating in a
vertical position.
Fluids enter the pump & lifted by the
impellers high speed rotating action.

Theoretical Head Developed by an Impeller

Principles of an Centrifugal Pump
Submersible pumps are multi stage centrifugal pumps. The two
main components of a centrifugal pump are the impeller and the
diffuser. The Impeller takes the power from the rotating shaft and

accelerates the fluid. The diffuser transforms the high fluid velocity
(kinetic energy) into pressure.

Theoretical Head Developed by an Impeller

Geometry of an Centrifugal Pump

The main components of an SP including:

Impellers

Casing

Diffusers

Shaft

Thrust washers

Bushing

Impeller

Washer
Diffuser

Problem statement :

Eulers pump equation provides a simple, loss free

description of the impeller performance. In reality,
because of a number of mechanical and hydraulic
losses in impeller and pump casing, the pump
performance is lower than predicted by the Euler
pump equation.
The losses cause smaller head than the theoretical
and higher power consumption ,and the result is
lower efficiency.

Pump losses
Mechanical losses

The pump coupling or drive consists of bearings,

shaft seals, gear, depending on pump type. These
components all cause mechanical friction loss.
The size of the losses can, however, vary with
pressure and rotational speed.
Losses due to friction between liquid and impeller
in space between impeller and casing.

Pump losses
Hydraulic losses

Hydraulic losses arise on the fluid path through the pump.

The losses occur because of friction or the change in direction
and velocity of fluid on its path through the pump.
This is due to cross-section changes and the passage through
the rotating impeller.
Friction losses in the impeller.
Shock or eddy losses at inlet to outlet of impeller.
Friction and eddy losses in the diffuser or guide vanes and
casing.
Friction losses in suction and delivery pipes.

Ways to improve the efficiency of

submersible pump

Designing and performance analysis of centrifugal

pump impeller with the aid of computational flow
dynamics.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have
successfully contributed to the prediction of the flow
through pumps and the enhancement of their design
as detailed understanding of internal flow is very
important.

Velocity diagrams and work done by impeller

The following assumptions made for analysis.

Liquid enters the impeller in radial direction.
No energy losses in the impeller due to friction and
eddy formation.
Liquid enters without shock.
Uniform velocity distribution in the narrow passages
formed between two adjacent vanes.

Velocity diagram :

Velocity diagram

Eulers equation for centrifugal pump

Eulers equation

Effect of curvature of impeller vanes

When 2 > 90 so, cot 2 is negative and hence head

increases with discharge. This type of vane is called
forward curved vane.
When 2 = 90 so, cot 2 =0 hence head remains
constant with discharge. This type of vane is called
radial vane.
When 2 < 90 so, cot 2 is positive and hence head
decreases with discharge. This type of vane is called
backward curved vane.

Effect of curvature of impeller vanes

Effect of curvature of impeller vanes

Parametric Study of a Centrifugal

Pump Impeller by Varying the Outlet
Blade Angle

Recently, in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of the

University of Patras, a pump test rig designed with
impellers have the same diameters in suction and
pressure side as well as the same inlet blade angle
(1 =14 deg) and they vary in the outlet blade angle
which is 2=20, 30 and 50 deg, respectively. The
diameters of the impellers at the suction and
pressure side are D1 =150mm and D2 =280mm,
respectively.

Hydraulic efficiency against the

non dimensional flow rate

Conclusion

At the nominal flow rate the value of the hydraulic

efficiency is ranged between 0.81 and 0.845 for the
three impellers 2 =20, 30 and 50deg respectively.
the pump was designed to operate at nominal
characteristics Q=45 m3/h and H=10 m, when the
rotational speed is 925rpm.
With the aid of computational flow dynamics, the
flow patterns through the pump are predicted and
value of the head at the nominal flow rate is
approximately H=9 m.

Conclusion

There is a shift of 10% between the theoretical head

and the predicted numerical head, this shift is due to
the fact that hydraulic losses are not considered in
theoretical head.
E.C. Bcharoudis et. al. have contributed to reveal the
flow mechanisms inside centrifugal impellers and
studied performance by varying outlet blade angle.
They observed a gain in head more than 7 % with
increase in outlet blade angle from 20 to 45 deg.

Literature review from

various research papers.

M.H.Shojaee Fard and F.A.Boyaghchi have carried

out computational analysis on a centrifugal pump
handling viscous fluids. They observed performance
improvements in centrifugal pump with increase in
the outlet blade angle due to decrease of wake
formation at the exit of the impeller.
Zhi-jianWang et al. simulated internal flow of
centrifugal pump through CFD and The distributions
of relative velocity, absolute velocity in guide vanes
and impellers under design condition are analyzed
and results show that the Jet-wake along some
blades and secondary flow at blade end and guide
vane exit influences the efficiency.

Literature review

Massinissa Djerroud et al. analyzed the effect of key design

parameters on the overall pump efficiency. The obtained
results demonstrate, among others, that the pump head
and the brake horsepower increase with increasing impeller
blade number and impeller blade height, while they decrease
with increasing impeller blade width. Also, the interaction
between the impeller and the volute reveals that the decrease of
the impeller outer diameter keeping the volute dimensions
constant leads to the reduction of the pump head and the brake
horsepower. The pump overall efficiency is also influenced by the
selected key design parameter.

Scheduling
Working dates

Work description

26/06/2013 to
12/07/2013

Work on our area of interest , and get

the project related to it.

13/07/2013 to
18/07/2013

Collect NOC and submit it to UTTAM

INDUSTRIES

20/07/2013 to
03/08/2013

Industry visit and consultation with both

guide and problem identification.

03/08/2013 to
08/08/2013

Problem finalizing.

Scheduling
(continue.)
08/08/2013 to
01/09/2013

Literature review to identify

methodology to solve problem.

02/09/2013 to
20/09/2013

Implementation of methodology.

21/09/2013 to
30/09/2013

Finding improved parameters by

testing.

01/09/2013 to
10/10/2013

Final conclusion and report making.