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    Improvement of Discharge Flow Structure by Bluff-Body Insert and Size Reduction of a Mixed-Flow Irrigation Pump
    (2022-03-01)
    Wasinarom, Kittipass
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    Boonchauy, Dachdanai
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    Noosomton, Jaruphant
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    Charoensuk, Jarruwat
    This paper concerns efficiency improvement of an 8-in. mixed-flow irrigation pump by modification of discharge flow channel. First, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling was validated with the experimental results using an available pump. Next, an investigation on the hydrodynamics structure was carried out by CFD. The investigation revealed large recirculation around the inner annulus area next to the impeller exit plane and jet flow around the pipe wall. This leads to formation of a strong shear layer between jet and recirculation flow. Improvements were realized by reducing the impeller size by 10% to increase the flow cross-sectional area between the impeller exit plane and the tube wall to slow down the jet flow. Bluff body was introduced at the inner annulus adjacent to the discharge flow channel to alleviate a recirculation wake region. The operating speed of the scaled-down impeller was increased from 900 to 1,100 rpm to compensate for the scaling effect, and the blade angle was modified to cope with the change of inlet relative flow angle. Experimental study suggested that more than 10% improvement could be achieved through these modifications. The maximum efficiency of the proposed model was 42%, compared with the maximum efficiency of 37% for the conventional model.
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    CFD based Improvement of Thai Irrigation Pump
    (2020-08-31)
    Wasinarom, Kittipass
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    Boonchauy, Dachdanai
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    Charoensuk, Jarruwat
    Evaluation phase which was partial fulfilment of the beginning phase of "Development of Performance test rig and Efficiency improvement of impeller in Thai irrigation pump project" is presented in this paper. Overall flow field in the pump system that consisted of inlet, impeller and stator vane of the available pump was analyzed using commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code. The goal of this investigation is to obtain more understanding of energy dissipation which results from shear stress that developed within the flow field in each section of the pump. The improvement measure is then conducted with the concern of manufacturing difficulties. High dissipation flow structure was observed around the impeller outlet. Jet-wake and recirculation flow were observed. The first improvement measure was conducted by adding the bluff body in the flow channel to alleviate jet-wake structure and delay flow separation. After the implementation of the optimized bluff body around the impeller exit, CFD results indicated around 3-8% improvement compared with the CFD results of the available pump for the entire range of operating conditions.
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    CFD based Improvement of Thai Irrigation Pump
    (2020-01-01)
    Wasinarom, Kittipass
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    Boonchauy, Dachdanai
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    Charoensuk, Jarruwat
    Evaluation phase which was partial fulfilment of the beginning phase of "Development of Performance test rig and Efficiency improvement of impeller in Thai irrigation pump project" is presented in this paper. Overall flow field in the pump system that consisted of inlet, impeller and stator vane of the available pump was analyzed using commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code. The goal of this investigation is to obtain more understanding of energy dissipation which results from shear stress that developed within the flow field in each section of the pump. The improvement measure is then conducted with the concern of manufacturing difficulties. High dissipation flow structure was observed around the impeller outlet. Jet-wake and recirculation flow were observed. The first improvement measure was conducted by adding the bluff body in the flow channel to alleviate jet-wake structure and delay flow separation. After the implementation of the optimized bluff body around the impeller exit, CFD results indicated around 3-8% improvement compared with the CFD results of the available pump for the entire range of operating conditions.