Este trabalho foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de avaliar o desempenho de bomba centrífuga no recalque de águas residuárias provenientes do processamento do café, especificamente do descascamento e da ...demucilagem. Montou-se uma bancada, composta por caixas d'água, tubulações, válvulas, medidores de vazão e de pressão, e uma motobomba para a realização dos ensaios. Esses consistiram em aberturas parciais do registro, na saída da bomba, e medições da vazão e da pressão desenvolvida, e da energia consumida. Tais procedimentos foram realizados, primeiro, utilizando água pura, e depois com águas residuárias, em suas concentrações originais e com diversos graus de diluições. Os ensaios mostraram quedas acentuadas de altura manométrica e de rendimento, e aumento da potência demandada com a vazão recalcada de água residuária em comparação ao desempenho da mesma bomba operando com água limpa; a diluição das águas residuárias promoveu melhor desempenho da bomba em relação àquela com concentração original.
This work was carried out to evaluate the performance of a centrifugal pump operating with wastewater from coffee process. Under laboratory conditions, it was determined the hydraulic characteristics (manometric height, engine power and efficiency) for a centrifugal pump, operating with clear water and coffee process wastewater. The results have show that manometric height and efficiency was smaller and the engine power was higher when the coffee process wastewater was used in comparison with results obtained for clean water. The smaller the concentration of that coffee wastewater produced the better the performance of the pump in comparison with the performance obtained with original concentration of the coffee wastewater.
This paper presents characteristics of discharge pulsating pressure generated by an external gear pump. Based on the theoretical and experimental examinations, it is pointed out first that the former ...mathematical model for flow ripple is insufficient in the case of high working pressure or low pump speed. It is found experimentally that a large amount of leakage through relief grooves takes place intermittently in the vicinity of the central position of trapping. This leakage affects dominantly the fluctuation of a discharge flow (flow ripple), especially its higher harmonic components. The calculated values of discharge pressure pulsations based on the presentmathematical model for flow ripple taking the leakage mentioned above into consideration agree well up to about tenth harmonic with the experimental values.
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