Design of Hydraulic Machinery Working in Sand Laden Water
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where K is reference value, which may take the value of 0.4 to 0.6. And
Reynolds number is:
Re
D,
JlgHr
where H
r
is the head of pumps at the design condition.
The task of hydraulic design of slurry pumps is at first to selection of the
geometry of their impellers, based on using the statistical formulas [4.18] as
follows, or based on concerning the influence of existence of particles to the
pumps [4.19,4.20].
Diameters of Impeller
When designing a centrifugal slurry pump, the slurry head H
sr
and capacity Q
at the design condition must be given. At first, the suction diameter of the
pump, d
0
should be chosen, then selection of the rotating speed, n, is need
according to Table 4.8.
Table 4.8 Selection of rotating speed of slurry pump
Suction diameter
d
0
(mm)
<125 125-200
250-300
300-500 500-800 >800
Rotating speed
n (rpm)
1470 1470-980 980-740 740-590 590-375 <375
The inlet diameter of the impeller D
0
can be chosen according to the
following statistic formula:
D,=K
m
l\ or D
n
Q
3.6 + 0.280
(/») (4.26)
where K
D0
= 3.5-4.5.
The inlet diameter of impeller blade D\ can be take in the same value as
D
0
or can be calculated as
Di = (0.187 In n
q
-0.24) D
2
(4.27)