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ENGR 304 Project (15%) : N Is The Pump Shaft/impeller Rotation Rate, and D

This document provides instructions for a project to design a water pump system. Students are asked to use engineering paper, pencil, and show all work. The project involves selecting pump parameters like shaft rotation rate and impeller diameter using given pump performance equations to minimize operating costs for an application pumping 1 ft3/s of water through a system with known pipe friction losses. The design must satisfy constraints like a minimum rotation rate of 600 rpm.

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ENGR 304 Project (15%) : N Is The Pump Shaft/impeller Rotation Rate, and D

This document provides instructions for a project to design a water pump system. Students are asked to use engineering paper, pencil, and show all work. The project involves selecting pump parameters like shaft rotation rate and impeller diameter using given pump performance equations to minimize operating costs for an application pumping 1 ft3/s of water through a system with known pipe friction losses. The design must satisfy constraints like a minimum rotation rate of 600 rpm.

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ENGR 304 Project (15%) Due at the beginning of Final Exam.

Summer 2019, Ins: Mutlu OZER

Use Engineering paper as one sided. Use pencil and erase unnecessary work. Show all solution procedure in detailed.

Project-Design Problem:

A family of water pumps produced by a given pump manufacturer have performance and efficiency curves that can be
characterized by the following dimensionless equations:

gh p Q
Pump head   6.04  161 where   2
and  
n D p2 nD 3p

Pump efficiency   70  91,500 3 where   (power to water) / (elect power input)

In the above equations,  is the dimensionless pump head and  is the dimensionless volumetric flow rate. hp is the pump head,
n is the pump shaft/impeller rotation rate, and Dp is the pump impeller diameter. The range of validity is 0 <  < 0.027. In
addition, the shaft/impeller rotation rate must be no slower than 600 rpm (revolutions per minute).

Now, use the above information to select a low operating-cost pump (select n and Dp) for the following application: Water at
20 °C is to be pumped as shown in the system in Figure 2 (next page) at a volumetric flow rate of at least 1 ft3/s. Pipe friction
losses in the system can be approximated by hf = 27V2/(2g), where V is the average velocity in the pipe. (Note that the
operating cost is a direct function of the pump’s electrical power input requirement.)

Figure D3
 

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