Centrifugal Pumps

✍ Scribed by Dr.-Ing. Johann Friedrich Gülich (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 956
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book gives an unparalleled, up-to-date, in-depth treatment of all kinds of flow phenomena encountered in centrifugal pumps including the complex interactions of fluid flow with vibrations and wear of materials.

The scope includes: all aspects of hydraulic design, 3D-flow phenomena and partload operation, cavitation, numerical flow calculations, hydraulic forces, pressure pulsations, noise, pump vibrations (notably bearing housing vibration diagnostics and remedies), pipe vibrations, pump characteristics and pump operation, the effects of highly viscous flows, pumping of gas-liquid mixtures, hydraulic transport of solids, fatigue damage to impellers or diffusers, material selection under the aspects of fatigue, corrosion, erosion-corrosion or hydro-abrasive wear, pump selection, and hydraulic quality criteria.

To ease the use of the information, the methods and procedures for the various calculations and failure diagnostics discussed in the text are gathered in more than 100 pages of tables which may be considered almost unique in the open literature. The text focuses on practical application in the industry and is free of mathematical or theoretical ballast. In order to find viable solutions in practice, the physical mechanisms involved should be thoroughly understood. The book is focused on fostering this understanding which will benefit the pump engineer in industry as well as academia and students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXIV
Fluid dynamic principles....Pages 1-38
Pump types and performance data....Pages 39-68
Pump hydraulics and physical concepts....Pages 69-144
Performance characteristics....Pages 145-186
Partload operation, impact of 3-D flow phenomena performance....Pages 187-256
Suction capability and cavitation....Pages 257-334
Design of the hydraulic components....Pages 335-428
Numerical flow calculations....Pages 429-494
Hydraulic forces....Pages 495-538
Noise and Vibrations....Pages 539-638
Operation of centrifugal pumps....Pages 639-688
Turbine operation, general characteristics....Pages 689-710
Influence of the medium on performance....Pages 711-776
Selection of materials exposed to high flow velocities....Pages 777-856
Pump selection and quality considerations....Pages 857-880
Back Matter....Pages 881-923

✦ Subjects

Machinery and Machine Elements; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Power Engineering