Tesla Bladed Pump (Disc Bladed Pump) Preliminary Experimental Performance Analysis

Yaguang Heng; Yuming Han; Huiyu Zhang; Weibin Zhang; Gérard Bois; Qifeng Jiang; Zhengwei Wang; Xiaobing Liu

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LAPSE:2023.26508

Tesla Bladed Pump (Disc Bladed Pump) Preliminary Experimental Performance Analysis

Yaguang Heng, Yuming Han, Huiyu Zhang, Weibin Zhang, Gérard Bois, Qifeng Jiang, Zhengwei Wang, Xiaobing Liu

April 3, 2023

A preliminary experimental work on a centrifugal pump model specifically designed to transport slurry and multiphase flows is presented. The impeller design corresponds to the so-called “Tesla Bladed Pump” adapted from an existing DiscflowTM pump design for the petroleum deep-sea application. The overall performance results of such a specific pump design are presented for different rotational speeds and discussed in relation to affinity laws coefficients. The results show that the performance of the tested disc pump strongly differs from the conventional centrifugal bladed pump. A one-dimensional approach using complete Euler relation is used to explain the differences in the present case. Moreover, it has been found that available results in open literatures do not correspond to the real optimum conditions, more detailed research work must be performed to get a better understanding on this kind of bladed disc pump.

Record ID

LAPSE:2023.26508

Keywords

centrifugal, experimental analysis, multiphase flow, performance characteristics, tesla bladed pump

Subject

Process Design

Suggested Citation

Heng Y, Han Y, Zhang H, Zhang W, Bois G, Jiang Q, Wang Z, Liu X. Tesla Bladed Pump (Disc Bladed Pump) Preliminary Experimental Performance Analysis. (2023). LAPSE:2023.26508

Author Affiliations

Heng Y: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China; Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, No. 30 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100084, Chin [ORCID]
Han Y: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China
Zhang H: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China
Zhang W: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China
Bois G: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China; CNRS, ONERA, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, Centrale Lille, UMR 9014-LMFL-Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides de Li
Jiang Q: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China [ORCID]
Wang Z: Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, No. 30 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100084, China
Liu X: Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery, Xihua University, No. 9999 Hongguang Avenue, Pidu District, Chengdu 610039, China

Journal Name

Energies

Volume

13

Issue

18

Article Number

E4873

Year

2020

Publication Date

2020-09-17