ADDIS ABABA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

MEng 4271- Turbomachinery I Exercise No. 2

1. A centrifugal water pump has the following mechanical data:

Inner radius of the rotor, r1=100 mm
Outer radius of the rotor, r2 = 178 mm
Blade angle at point 0 of the rotor β0=30o
Blade angle at point 3 of the rotor β3=20o
Design-point speed n = 1440 rpm
Entrance and exit rotor-blade width b1=b2 =45 mm
Flow at inlet to the rotor vane channel is purely radial (no whirl component).

Assuming the flow in the vane channel is vane-congruent.

a) Draw, to scale, the velocity angles at points 0 and 3 of the vane channel.
b) Based on the given data and the calculated velocity triangles, give a neat sketch of the
rotor blade.
c) Calculate (i) the design-point flow rate (ii) the head gained by the water and (iii) the
power transferred to the water.

2. An axial flow fan operates at 1200 rpm. The blade tip diameter is 1.1m and the hub diameter
is 0.8 m. The blade inlet and exit angles are 300 and 600, respectively. Inlet guide vanes give
the absolute flow entering the rotor vane channel an angel, α0 = 600. The fluid is air at
standard conditions (ρ = 1.23 kg/m3), and the flow may be considered as incompressible.
There is no change in the axial component of velocity across the rotor. The relative flow
may be assumed to enter and leave the rotor vane channels at the geometric blade angles,
and properties at the mean blade diameter may be used for calculations. For these idealized
conditions.
a) Draw the inlet velocity triangle at point0,
b) Determine the volume flow rate,
c) Determine the outlet velocity triangle at point 3,
d) Calculate the torque and power required to drive the fan, and
e) Sketch the rotor blade shapes.