Laboratory

Pump Centrifugal

Campus: San Fernando Manufacturing Campus

Lab Tech.: Miss Amreeta Samaro

Students: Nicolus John 80765, Jahvin Neptune & Aaron

Paras.

Date: Thursday 24th May 2018.

Aim: To determine the relationship between pump flow rate
efficiency and inlet pressure.

Apparatus and Materials:

1. Pump
2. Analogy Pressure Display
3. Water
4. Venturi Meter
5. Valves
6. VDAS

Procedure:
1. Fully open pump inlet valve and delivery valves.
2. Switch on motor Drive isolator and start pump motor.
3. Use the bleed line to bleed all pressure gauges.
4. Adjust the motor to the speed needed for the experiment
5. Tabulate Results obtain.
6. Plot Graph of Flow rate against suction pressure.
7. Plot Graph the dimensionless characteristics of head coefficient
and power coefficient against flow coefficient.

Precautions:
1. Bleed Lines Before performing experiment
2. Turn valves slowly to prevent water hammer.
Table: Showing tabulated results of Centrifugal Pump

Pump Outlet Total Pump Venturi Flow Total Total Efficiency

Inlet Pressure Head Speed Pressure (L.𝒔−𝟏 ) Power Hydraulic (%)
𝑷𝟐 𝑷𝟒 H N Difference Input Power
(bar) (bar) (kPa) (rev.𝒎𝒊𝒏−𝟏 ) () 𝑾𝟏 (watts)
(Watts)
-0.29 0.00 34 2000 0.21 1.347 131.95 39063 296.04

-0.26 0.00 41 2000 0.18 1.2472 127.76 32422 253.77

-0.15 0.00 64 2000 0.03 0.5092 100.5 7638 76

-0.33 0.00 41 2200 0.27 1.08 177.40 44280 249.61

cv- 0.00 29 2200 0.21 0.9525 170.48 20002.5 117.33

0.29

-0.18 0.00 18 2200 0.08 0.8315 142.84 14967 104.78

-0.38 0.00 38 2400 0.33 1.69 103.04 64220 623.25

-0.33 0.00 33 2400 0.27 1.528 218.65 50424 230.62

-0.20 0.00 20 2400 0.10 0.930 185.98 18600 100.02

 Suction Test at 3000 rev. min-1
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
Flow Rate L/s

1
0.8
Flow Rate L/s
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
-0.29 -0.26 -0.15 -0.33 -0.29 -0.18 0.38 -0.33 -0.2
Inlet Pressure

Dimensionlesss Analysis
0.0000035
0.000003
0.0000025
Head Coefficient

0.000002
0.0000015
0.000001 Head Coefficient
0.0000005
0

Flow Coefficient
 Pump Performance at 3000 rev. min-1
70

60

50
Total Head KPa

40

30
Total Head Kpa
20

10

0
1.347 1.2472 0.5092 1.08 0.9525 0.8351 1.69 1.528 0.92
Flow L

Pump Performance at 3000 rev. min-1

1.8

1.6

1.4

1.2
Efficiency%

0.8
Flow Rate L/s
0.6

0.4

0.2

0
-0.29 -0.26 -0.15 -0.33 -0.29 -0.18 0.38 -0.33 -0.2
Power Input W
Discussion:
The suction test revealed that, the relationship between flow rate
and pressure as experiments show that a increase and decrease in
either resulted in the other, being affected and following the same.
The same trend was observed in the relationship between power input
and efficiency. In the first three sets of readings, no observable trend
was identified between power, efficiency, flow rate, head and flow
rate. Throughout the experiment, the speed remained most constant,
while the efficiency within the system saw the most amount of
movement.
 Conclusion:

The relationship between the flow rate and pump efficiency are
proportional.