The golf ball effect in your progressing cavity pump

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 493 KB
• Volume: 1999
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-1762
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-1762(00)87641-5

✦ Synopsis

In the early 1900s, Rene Motneau laid '.sign of m o ~ (PC) pump~ slighg incremental impro a l o n g lx~tod of time. It ~ to say. thouRh, that it's ments, unve~ Nommensen, sugge.~ cavities in the stator s~ dimples on a golf ballto better all round Oerfc Peering d o w n the p o r t of a PC p u m p , heart of the device: the rotor am~i~ Everything else plays a s u p p o r t i n g role ing the p u m p to operate.The barrel of tla~)] is simply a piece of p i p e with a flange, the h o u s i n g is simple and u n s o p h i s t i c a t e d gland or seal plate, and the drive is throug~ i :~ piing rod or flexible drive shaft.

W h a t makes the PC design w o r k e f f e ~i ~ ~,is the fit b e t w e e n rotor and stator.The rot0~' has a s n u g fit inside t h e stator and it is r e ~l y the fit b e t w e e n t h e s e t w o c o m p o n e n t s , and w h a t hapinterface that dictates performance.