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This paper gives an analysis of the reciprocating pump, a positive displacement pump. The reciprocating pump is a positive displacement pump that suctions and elevates liquid by displacing it with a piston or plunger while performing the reciprocating action in a tightly fitting cylinder. The project offers a portable positive displacement pump to show how fluids travel in a lab setting. The part consists of a scotch yoke mechanism driven by an electric motor, a piston, suction pipe, delivery pipe, suction valve, and a transparent plastic cylinder assembly.
This fabrication will show how a positive displacement pump operates throughout the suction and delivery strokes of each cycle of the pumping mechanism and gives a visual grasp of how it works. The pump was created with a high-precision aim for fluid movement by closely adhering to international standards throughout design and construction. The pump’s working designed speed is 15 rpm, and the piston’s stroke is 0.18 m long. Half of the pump plunger’s stroke length was represented by the crank radius. The height of the centre of the cylinder above the liquid surface is 0.5 m, and the height to which the liquid is raised above the centre of the cylinder Is 1 m. The practical operations were performed, and data was collected. The reciprocating pump principles were applied for the pressure head analysis during the suction and delivery strokes. The values generated were used in the computation analysis for the discharge, work done and the power required to drive the pump. The resulting analysis gave the discharge head of 3.6891m work done of 1.117727Nm/sec, and the power required to drive the motor of 60 W
This fabrication will show how a positive displacement pump operates throughout the suction and delivery strokes of each cycle of the pumping mechanism and gives a visual grasp of how it works. The pump was created with a high-precision aim for fluid movement by closely adhering to international standards throughout design and construction. The pump’s working designed speed is 15 rpm, and the piston’s stroke is 0.18 m long. Half of the pump plunger’s stroke length was represented by the crank radius. The height of the centre of the cylinder above the liquid surface is 0.5 m, and the height to which the liquid is raised above the centre of the cylinder Is 1 m. The practical operations were performed, and data was collected. The reciprocating pump principles were applied for the pressure head analysis during the suction and delivery strokes. The values generated were used in the computation analysis for the discharge, work done and the power required to drive the pump. The resulting analysis gave the discharge head of 3.6891m work done of 1.117727Nm/sec, and the power required to drive the motor of 60 W
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