 To study the effect of tooth geometry of gear

pump on various parameters like flow rate,

pressure head, pulsation of flow, wear,
vibration & noise.
 To optimize gear tooth geometry of gear
pump to improve its performance.
 To improve running life of gears of Gear
pump.
 To analyse the design parameters influencing
the pump characteristics.
 To understand their effect so as to aid the
process of improved design.
 To design modified gear system in order to
improve performance of gear pump.
Fig 1. 20° Full Depth Involute Tooth Fig 2. Continuous contact type gear
Profile pump
 Correction Factor
 Correction factor is the radial displacement of
tooth generating profile.
 As the positive correction factor increases,
ideal flow delivery of gear pump increases.
 As the positive correction factor increases,
contact ratio of teeth decreases and hence
trapped volume decreases.
 As the positive correction factor increases,
pulsation flow rate factor decreases.
 Also as the positive correction factor
increases, bending stress of teeth decreases.
 Pressure angle is the angle between the
common normal to the contacting teeth ( line
of action) and the common tangent to the
pitch circle of meshing gears.
 As the pressure angle of gear tooth increases,
ideal delivery of gear pump increases.
 As the pressure angle of gear increases,
seperating force increases.
 As the pressure angle of gear pump
increases, wear rate of gears increases.
 By using analytical expressions we can
optimize the tooth profile of external gear
pump.
 The study shows that performance of gear
pump can be improved by modifying the
tooth profile of gear pump.
 Performance parameters like flow rate,
trapped volume, pulsation flow rate factor of
standard gear pump can be improved by
using unstandardized gear.