2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Design of the hydraulic components
verfasst von : Johann Friedrich Gülich
Erschienen in: Centrifugal Pumps
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This chapter deals with one-dimensional calculation procedures and design methods for impellers, volute casings, diffusers and inlet casings. For developing these components, the main dimensions and blade angles are calculated in a first step. Subsequently, the hydraulic contours are designed based on certain rules and methods. Many pump manufacturers employ computer programs for this work, and the drawings are generated on 2D-CAD systems. However, these methods are also increasingly replaced by 3D-CAD systems with which fully three-dimensional geometry models of a component can be created, Fig. 2.2A and Fig. 7.45. The complex hydraulic channels can be evaluated better with such models than with the conventional two-dimensional representations in various sections and views. Even more importantly, 3D-CAD systems provide the capability to directly manufacture the hydraulic components (or the casting patterns) by NC milling, stereo lithography or other fast-prototyping processes, [7.1]. The advantages of such processes are evident in terms of geometrical accuracy and lead times (not in the least also for model tests with milled or stereo-lithographed components). Since manual designs on the drawing board are rather the exception, the subsequent discussion of the design methods emphasizes the fundamental aspects of the design processes rather than a very detailed description of geometrical operations.