前置导叶对双吸离心泵性能影响试验研究

为了优化离心泵运行工况,运用叶轮机械设计、前置导叶预旋调节的基本理论,并结合诱导轮设计理论,设计了两种不同叶高的双吸泵前置诱导叶片.对带有不同叶高前置叶片的双吸泵进行了试验研究.研究结果表明:带有诱导叶片的双吸泵虽然扬程略有降低,且在大流量区域效率降低,但其功率消耗降低,最大可节能3.34%,且高效区往小流量偏移;14 mm叶高诱导叶片调节效果明显优于20 mm叶高诱导叶片,且能够有效地将双吸泵高效区往小流量偏移,同时降低离心泵功率消耗.     

Computed effect of guide vane shape on performance of impulse turbine for wave energy conversion

This paper deals with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis on effect of guide vane shape on performance of impulse turbine for wave energy conversion. Initially, experiments have been conducted on the impulse turbine to validate the present CFD method and to analyse the aerodynamics in rotor and guide vanes, which demonstrates the necessity to improve the guide vanes shape. The results showed that the downstream guide vanes make considerable total pressure drop leads low performance of the turbine and hence three‐dimensional (3‐D) inlet and downstream guide vanes have been designed based on well‐known vortex theory to improve the efficiency of the turbine. In order to prove the improvement in efficiency due to 3‐D guide vanes, CFD analysis has been made on impulse turbine with 2‐D and 3‐D guide vanes for various flow coefficients. As a result, it is seen that the present CFD model can predict the experimental values with reasonable accuracy. Also, it is showed from the numerical results that the efficiency of the turbine can be improved by average of 4.5 percentage points by incorporating 3‐D guide vanes instead of 2‐D guide vanes. The physical reason for improvement in efficiency of the turbine due to 3‐D guide vanes has been explained with the CFD flow insight pictures. As the turbine operates in fluctuating flow conditions, the performance of the turbine with 2‐D and 3‐D guide vanes have been calculated numerically using quasi‐steady analysis. Furthermore, the performance of the turbine has been predicted for one year based on Irish wave climate to show the feasibility of using 3‐D guide vanes in actual sea wave conditions. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Experimental studies on effect of guide vane shape on performance of impulse turbine for wave energy conversion

This paper presents the experimental results of effect of guide vane shape on performance of an impulse turbine for wave energy conversion. Two types of guide vanes are considered in the present study: two-dimensional (2D) guide vanes and three-dimensional (3D) guide vanes. The previous investigations by the authors revealed that the 2D guide vanes cause large recirculation zones at leading edge of downstream guide vanes, which affect the performance of turbine considerably. In order to improve the performance of turbine, three-dimensional guide vanes are designed based on free-vortex theory. Detailed aerodynamic and performance tests have been conducted on impulse turbine with the two types of guide vanes. The experiments have been conducted under various inlet conditions such as steady, sinusoidal and random (real Sea) flows. From the results, it was proved that the efficiency of impulse turbine has been improved for 4.5% points due to 3D guide vanes. The hysteric characteristic has been noticed from the experimental results of impulse turbine with sinusoidal and random flow inlet conditions. Furthermore, it was investigated that the performance of turbine is considerably more during deceleration of inlet flow than the acceleration in a half cycle of sinusoidal wave.     

Effect of guide vanes on the performance of a self-rectifying air turbine with constant and variable chord rotors

A Wells turbine is a self-rectifying air flow turbine capable of converting pneumatic power of the periodically reversing air stream in Oscillating Water Column into mechanical energy. The Wells turbine has inherent disadvantages; lower efficiency, poorer starting characteristics, higher axial force and low tangential force in comparison with conventional turbines. Guide vanes before and after the rotor suggest a means to improve the tangential force, hence its efficiency. Experimental investigations are carried out on a Wells turbine with the constant chord and variable chord blade rotors fitted with inlet and outlet guide vanes to understand the aerodynamics. Experiments were also conducted for the above said rotors with various stagger angles to validate the design stagger angle. In addition, the starting and running characteristics of the rotors have been studied and compared with the case without guide vanes. Studies were done at various flow coefficients covering the entire range of flow coefficients over which the turbine is operable. The efficiency, starting characteristics of the turbines with guide vanes have improved when compared with the respective turbines without guide vanes.     

Counter-rotating turbines for solar chimney power plants

An efficiency model at design performance for counter-rotating turbines is developed and validated. Based on the efficiency equations, an off-design performance model for counter-rotating turbines is developed. Combined with a thermodynamic model for a solar chimney system and a solar radiation model, annual energy output of solar chimney systems is determined. Two counter-rotating turbines, one with inlet guide vanes, the other without, are compared to a single-runner system. The design and off-design performances are weighed against in three different solar chimney plant sizes. It is shown that the counter-rotating turbines without guide vanes have lower design efficiency and a higher off-design performance than a single-runner turbine. Based on the output torque versus power for various turbine layouts, advantageous operational conditions of counter-rotating turbines are demonstrated.     

基于气液两相的导叶对液力透平内部流动规律的影响

为了研究气液两相条件下导叶对液力透平内部流动特性的影响,现选取比转速为55.7的离心泵反转作为液力透平,并在液力透平叶轮进口添加一组负曲率导叶,设计出含导叶的水力模型,研究含气工况下导叶对液力透平性能的影响.研究发现:添加导叶前蜗壳和叶轮流道内压力分布和气相分布不均匀,且含气率越高均匀性越差,过流部件内流动较为紊乱,蜗...     

导叶式混流泵水力性能优化的数值模拟

以导叶式混流泵为例,通过改变叶片截面的扭曲角和导叶的扫掠角度,对混流泵进行了优化设计,进而采用数值模拟方法分析了混流泵的水力性能。结果表明,在一定范围内,调整叶片的扭曲角度会使泵段效率上升;增大导叶的扫掠角度,导叶翼型的表面流线分布会更加均匀,可有效避免导叶表面的脱流漩涡,优化后的混流泵段效率比优化前提高了8.36%。     

Effect of guide vane shape on the performance of a Wells turbine

A Wells turbine has inherent disadvantages: lower efficiency and poorer starting characteristics. Providing guide vanes on either side of the rotor could be one of the most effective ways of improving its performance. Several papers have demonstrated the usefulness of 2D guide vanes so far. In order to achieve further improvement in the performance of the Wells turbine, the effect of 3D guide vanes has been investigated experimentally by testing a model under steady flow conditions. Then, the running and starting characteristics under irregular flow conditions have been obtained by a computer simulation using quasi-steady analysis. It is found that the running and starting characteristics of the Wells turbine with 3D guide vanes are superior to those with 2D guide vanes.     

Effect of Guide Vanes on the Performance of a Variable Chord Self—Rectifying Air Turbine

INTRODUCTIONWiththeconventionalenergyresourceslikelytogetexhaustedinafewdecades,theinexhaustiblesourcesofenergyhavetotaketheirplace.Alternateenergyfromtheoceanisattractingtheattelltionoftheresearchersinrecentyearsduetoitsperennialavailabilityandminimumhealthhazards.Ofthemanypossibleformsofoceanenergy,waveenergyispromising.Waveenergyisanalternateformenergy,whichispollutantfreeandinnearfutureitislikelytobeeconomicallyviable.Countrieswhicharesurroundedbyseaandpossessremotelysituatedislandcom…     

Impulse Turbine with 3D Guide Vanes for Wave Energy Conversion

In this study, in order to achieve further improvement of the performance of an impulse turbine with fixed guide vanes for wave energy conversion, the effect of guide vane shape on the performance was investigated by experiment. The investigation was performed by model testing under steady flow condition. As a result, it was found that the efficiency of the turbine with 3D guide vanes are slightly superior to that of the turbine with 2D guide vanes because of the increase of torque by means of 3D guide vane, though pressure drop across the turbine for the 3D case is slightly higher than that for the 2D case.     

Performance of Wells Turbine with Guide Vanes for Wave Energy Conversion

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Design and experimental validation of the inlet guide vane system of a mini hydraulic bulb-turbine

The paper presents a fast design method for the inlet guide vanes of low-cost mini hydraulic bulb turbines. The guide vanes are positioned between two conical surfaces with a common vertex and have constant thickness distribution, except close to the leading and the trailing edges. The conical-walled inlet guide vane row is designed using a quasi-three-dimensional calculation method, by prescribing the angular-momentum distribution along the span at the outlet section of the guide vanes.The meridional through-flow is computed by a streamline curvature method and the blade-to-blade flow by a singularity surface method. The stagger angle and the vane camber are computed to fulfil the required design circulation and zero-incidence flow at the leading edge. The final vane shape is a single-curvature surface with straight leading and trailing edges. To validate the design method, a conical-walled inlet guide vane row nozzle-model with six fixed vanes was designed, manufactured and tested in an airflow rig. Traversing measurements along the circumferential and radial directions were made with a five-hole probe.The experimental results are compared with the prescribed design conditions and with numerical results from the three-dimensional inviscid and viscous flow computed with the FLUENT code.     

Control of Collection Efficiency for Axial Flow Cyclone Dust Collectors with Fixed Guide Vanes and with Funnel Shaped Exit Pipes

The experimental result of the collection efficiency of the axial flow cyclone with the fixed guide vanes is lowerthan that with the tangential inlet pipe to the cyclone body due to the weak angular momentum transfer given byflowing through the guide vanes.However,one of the interesting points is the control of the collection efficiencydepended on the funnel shaped exit pipes.The collection efficiencies for these funnel shaped exit pipes aredepended on the Froude number.Then,in this paper,the experimental results of the pressure drop and also thecollection efficiency using the fly-ash particles and also the comparison of the calculated results of the collectionefficiency with the experimental results are described in detail.     

船用燃气轮机变几何动力涡轮大攻角流动特性的三维数值模拟

采用三维数值模拟技术,研究了可调导叶转动导致变几何动力涡轮气动性能变化的流场机理。结果表明,在较小的转角范围内,采用大转折角设计的可调导叶使涡轮处于大攻角运行。在大正攻角或大负攻角下可调导叶级动叶栅流道内的三维分离流场结构及其产生机理有很大差异,而且大正攻角造成的吸力面分离流动更使整个涡轮的效率显著地下降。通过系统的机理分析,提出可调导叶宜采用较小转折角的后部加载叶型,而变几何动力涡轮可调导叶级动叶栅要采用较大负冲角的气动设计原则。     

淮阴抽水站可逆式轴流泵装置性能研究

为了满足泵站抽水发电可逆运行的要求,应用Fluent软件,利用CFD数值模拟技术模拟了不同方案的流道内流场,分析了叶片翼型、叶片个数、轮毂比、导叶数量、导叶距转轮出口距离对水泵性能的影响,得到了最优的水力模型装置,即转轮叶片数为4、最优安放角为0°、轮毂比为0.40、导叶数为5、导叶进口边与转轮出口距离为268mm时,转轮具有更好的做功能力,且装置全流道效率和转轮效率达到最大值。根据数值模拟计算设计出的轴流式水泵水轮机转轮特性与模型试验结果比较接近,具备实际应用价值,不仅可节约新转轮的开发成本,且缩短了研发时间。     

基于CFD的轴流泵后置导叶水力性能分析

为了解轴流泵后置导叶的水力性能,基于RNG湍流模型,采用计算流体动力学CFD软件Fluent,应用SIMPLIEC算法对轴流泵模型装置全流道进行了数值模拟,分析了四种不同流量下导叶体的内部流动特性,研究了导叶的水力性能。结果表明,导叶的水力损失随流量的增加先减小后增大;在设计流量处导叶水力损失最小,导叶压力转换能力最好;小流量下叶轮进出口处水流流态紊乱,导叶流道内出现漩涡回流,是导致导叶水力损失较大的主要原因;大流量下叶轮出口水流轴向速度较大,水流导叶进口边撞击将导致导叶体水力损失增加,水力性能下降。     

Effect of inlet guide vanes on the performance of small axial flow fan

Effects of the inlet guide vanes on the static characteristics, aerodynamic noise and internal flow characteristics of a small axial flow fan are studied in this work. The inlet guide vanes with different outlet angle are designed,which are mounted on the casing and located at the upstream of the impeller of the prototype fan. Both steady and unsteady flow simulations are performed. The steady flow is simulated by the calculations of Navier-Stokes equations coupled with RNG k-epsilon turbulence model, while the unsteady flow is computed with large eddy simulation. According to the theoretical analysis, the inlet guide vanes with outlet angle of 60° are regarded as the optimal inlet guide vanes. The static characteristic experiment is carried out in a standard test rig and the aerodynamic noise is tested in a semi-anechoic room. Then, performances of the fan with optimal inlet guide vanes are compared with those of the prototype fan. The results show that there is reasonable agreement between the simulation results and the experimental data. It is found that the static characteristics of small axial flow fan is improved obviously after installing the optimal inlet guide vanes. Meanwhile, the optimal inlet guide vanes have effect on reducing noise at the near field, but have little effect on the noise at the far field.     

Performance estimation of bi-directional turbines in wave energy plants

Oscillating water column(OWC)based wave energy plants have been designed with several types of bidirec-tional turbines for converting pneumatic power to shaft power.Impulse turbines with linked guide vanes andfixed guide vanes have been tested at the Indian Wave Energy plant.This was after initial experimentation withWell's turbines.In contrast to the Well's turbine which has a linear damping characteristic,impulse turbines havenon-linear damping.This has an important effect in the overall energy conversion from wave to wire.Optimizingthe wave energy plant requires a turbine with linear damping and good efficiency over a broad range of flow co-efficient.This work describes how such a design can be made using fixed guide vane impulse turbines.The In-dian Wave Energy plant is used as a case study.     

低水头电站导水机构内流场的水力优化计算

针对蜗壳(包括固定导叶)内流场的回流和撞击问题,以Fluent为工具,采用SIMPLE算法,对低水头电站蜗壳和导水机构进行三维不可压定常粘性流动数值模拟,分析了产生问题的原因,提出采用改善固定导叶型线及进出口角度的方法对固定导叶进行优化。对优化后模型进行最优工况下的数值计算表明,优化结果较为理想,改善了原设计中部分导叶处流态不稳定的状况,为水轮机固定导叶的优化提供了依据。     

船用燃气轮机低压压气机改型设计研究

为了保证船用8级低压压气机在低工况稳定性不降低的前提下,同时提高设计点效率,通过数值模拟的方法研究展弦比优化对压气机设计点效率的影响。分析结果表明：展弦比的选取会影响主流区的流动损失和端壁二次流损失,进而影响压气机性能。优化了多级压气机后面级展弦比,将设计点效率提高了0.42%。同时,通过优化可转导叶偏转角度,确保了60%转速的喘振裕度不降低。