Unsteady Flow Condition of Centrifugal Pump for Low Viscous Fluid Food

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Fluid machineries for fluid food have been used in wide variety of field i.e. transportation, filling, and improvement of quality of fluid food. The flow condition of these fluid machineries is quite complicated because the fluid food is different from water. Therefore, a design method based on the internal flow condition is not conducted. In this research, a turbo-pump having small number of blades was used to decrease shear loss and keep wide flow passage. In previous studies, it was found that internal flow condition was complex in the test pump, but those flow phenomena were not clarified in detail. In order to investigate the complex internal flow condition, the unsteady numerical analysis using low viscous fluid was conducted. In this paper, the relation between the blade geometry and the performance was investigated. In addition to that, the internal flow condition of the centrifugal pump using low viscous fluid was clarified by the numerical analysis results.