| Title |
CFD Predictions of Water Flow Through Impellers of the ALBA Centrifugal Pumps and Their Aspiration Zone. An Investigation of Fluid Dynamics Effects on Cavitation Problems |
| Authors |
- A. González Romero
ESEIAAT, Terrassa, Spain
- J.J. Casas, C. Colldelram, M. Quispe
ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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| Abstract |
Currently, the ALBA refrigeration system pumps present cavitation when operating at their nominal regime. To alleviate this phenomenon temporarily until a definitive solution was found, the water flow was reduced to 67% of its nominal value. As this flow exchanges heat with the cooling water produced in an external cogeneration plant, modifying the working point of the pumps resulted in a reduction of the Accelerator cooling capacity. However, even at such low flow conditions, the flow has an anomalous oscillatory behaviour in the distributor of the aspiration zone, implying that the cause may be in a bad dimensioning of the manifold. This paper presents a study of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applied to the aspiration zones of the pumps, to investigate the effects of fluid dynamics on cavitation problems and understand what may be happening in the system. The need for such research arises from the urge to recover the accelerator cooling capacity and the constant pursuit for the improvement of the system. The geometries for this study include the general manifold in the aspiration zone and a simplified model of the pump impeller. The simulations have been carried out with the ANSYS-FLUENT software. Studies performed include considering the total water flow in nominal and under current operating conditions. In addition, the cases in which the flow is distributed through the manifold tubes in uniform and non-uniform ways have been treated separately. Pressure and velocity fields are analysed for various turbulence models. Finally, conclusions and recommendations to the problem are presented.
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| Conference |
MEDSI2020 |
| Series |
Mechanical Engineering Design of Synchrotron Radiation Equipment and Instrumentation (11th) |
| Location |
Chicago, IL, USA |
| Date |
24-29 July 2021 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Yifei Jaski (ANL, Lemont, IL, USA); Patric Den Hartog (ANL, Lemont, IL, USA); Kelly Jaje (ANL, Lemont, IL, USA); Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-229-5 |
| Online ISSN |
2673-5520 |
| Received |
27 July 2021 |
| Accepted |
28 September 2021 |
| Issue Date |
01 November 2021 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2020-WEPB16 |
| Pages |
299-302 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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