Experimental research and the numerical simulation of the non-standard pump for the flow-circulation type reactor

Abstract

Abstract The paper shows the results of the experimental measurements and the numerical simulation of the flow-circulation type reactor pump main characteristics. The mathematical model based on Navier-Stokes equations and standard k-epsilon turbulence model was used for the pump CFD simulation. The pump power consumption was calculated by the proposed CFD post-processing method. It is found that the simulation error of the proposed method is not more than 2.9%. The obtained results include the regression equations of the pump full pressure, the pump feed and the power consumption at the pump cross-points.