Design and optimization of the centrifugal pump impeller for wastewater
Viorel BOSTAN, Andrei PETCO
Abstract In the given paper the optimization process of centrifugal wastewater pump impeller is presented. The initial geometrical model was designed in CFturbo software. The actual optimization process was carried out in ANSYS environment. The geometric model was realized in DesignModeler, with the application of Blade Editor tools and discretized by applying ANSYS Mesher. The calculations of the flow characteristics were performed in CFX and the application of the optimization algorithms was performed in optiSLang. Evolutionary Algorithm and NLPQL algorithm were compared as optimization algorithms. The best result was achieved by Evolutionary Algorithm, the application of which resulted in an impeller with an efficiency of 78.5, which satisfies the task imposed in the specification.
Keywords
Wastewater Centrifugal Pumps, Centrifugal Pump Impeller, Geometry Optimization, Computational Fluid Dynamics
Published online 12/10/2024, 8 pages
Copyright © 2024 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA
Citation: Viorel BOSTAN, Andrei PETCO, Design and optimization of the centrifugal pump impeller for wastewater, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 46, pp 362-369, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903377-47
The article was published as article 47 of the book Innovative Manufacturing Engineering and Energy
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