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Reciprocating Pump With Air Vessel
Reciprocating Pump With Air Vessel
V B POLYTECHNIC
NAME:
EN.NO: SEMESTER: BRANCH: SUB. NAME:
PATIL KRUNAL R.
106550319004 3rd MECHANICAL/101 FMHM
SENINAR TOPIC: A seminar on Heat Pump GUIDED BY: HIREN PATEL (L.M.E.)
Introduction
Reciprocating pump is one kind of the positive displacement pumps and it known (positive displacement pump) because in it liquid is pushed out of the cylinder by the actual displacement of the piston or plunger.
1)Cylinder : It is made of cast iron or steel alloy. The piston reciprocates inside the cylinder. The movement of piston is obtained by a connecting rod which connects piston and rotating crank. (2)Suction pipe: It connects the source of water and cylinder, the water is sucked. (3)Delivery pipe: Water sucked by pump is discharged into delivery pipe. (4)Suction valve: It adjusts the flow from the suction pipe into delivery pipe. (5)Delivery valve: It admits the flow from the cylinder in to delivery pipe.
(6)Air vessel: It is a cast iron closed chamber having an opening at its pass through which the water flows into vessel.
WORKING
FIGURE 2
During the suction stroke the piston moves left thus creating vacuum in the Cylinder.
This vacuum causes the suction valve to open and water enters the Cylinder.
During the delivery stroke the piston moves towards right. This increasing pressure in the cylinder causes the suction valve to close and delivery to open and water is forced in the delivery pipe. The air vessel is used to get uniform discharge.
(1) Suction head: it is a vertical height from the surface of liquid in sump to the center of pump as shown in fig 1 & 2. (2) Delivery head: it is the height to which the liquid is lifted above the center of cylinder. (3) Frictional head: it is defined as the losses of head due to frictional resistance.
Where, f= frictional factor l= length of pipe (ls & ld) V= velocity of liquid (Vs & Vd) d= diameter of pipe (ds & dd) (4) Total head: theoretically, total head is sum of the suction head, delivery head and frictional head losses in pipe. Total head, h= + +
In a single acting pump, the backward stroke of the piston causes a suction which pulls in liquid through the inlet valve. (The same suction action keeps the discharge valve closed). On the forward stroke, the increase in pressure generated by the piston, closes the inlet valve and opens the discharge valve. The liquid is displaced into the discharge system.
This type of pump operates in exactly the same way as the single acting with respect to its action. The difference is, that the cylinder has inlet and outlet ports at EACH END OF THE CYLINDER. As the piston moves forward, liquid is being drawn into the cylinder at the back end while, at the front end, liquid is being discharged. When the piston direction is reversed, the sequence is reversed.
AIR VESSEL:
The air vessel is a closed vessel as shown in fig. The top half contains compressed air and lower half contains fluid being pumped. Air and water are separated by a flexible diaphragm which is movable as per difference of pressure between two fluids. Air vessel is connected very near to the pump at nearly pump level. Without air vessel frictional head increases and reaches a maximum value at mid stroke and decreases to zero. With air vessel frictional head is constant throughout the stroke.
FRICTIONAL HEAD
EQUETIONS:
Single acting pump: The flow from cylinder, Q = A r sin
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