International cooperation success for concrete volute pumps in India

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 855 KB
• Volume: 2003
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-1762
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-1762(03)90258-6

✦ Synopsis

Termomeccanica Pompe, owned of 'Collaborating Engineering by Termomeccanica Holding, is Partner' for the whole project. an Italian company well known worldwide as producer of large, Termomeccanica Pompe has very engineered centrifugal pumps for wide experience in designing application in water transporta-concrete volute pumps, and has tion, power production, irrigation, been suppfying this kind of pump oil and gas, and sea water desalin-for more than 30 years, mainly for ation. Kirloskar Brothers Ltd (KBL) power stations in Italy. The comis the largest Indian manufacturer parry is able to optimize the most of a wide range of centrifugal suitable hydraulics for each specpumps from half kW to 5000 kW. ific project through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations (see Figure 1) and tests on reduced-size model pumps.