Design Method of Controllable Blade Angle and Orthogonal Optimization of Pressure Rise for a Multiphase Pump

Abstract

The hydraulic design method of controllable blade angle for rotodynamic multiphase pump with impeller and diffuser is proposed. The distribution of blade angle along the meridional streamline is governed by the normalized fourth-order and first-order polynomial function for impeller and diffuser, respectively. The orthogonal optimization method with five factors and four levels is employed by numerical simulation to optimize the geometry parameters, including the shroud angle at the leading and trailing edge βIs0, βIs1, the blade difference at inlet ∆βI0, and the coefficients at hub and shroud kh, ks. According to orthogonal analysis, the influence of each factor on pressure rise is estimated, and the optimization values of for those parameters are determined. The pressure rise of optimization multiphase pump is increased by 12.8 kPa in comparison of the base pump. Results show that the distributions of gas volume fraction (GVF) and the pressure become more uniform after optimization, which improves the transporting performance of the multiphase pump.