In this paper an attempt has been made for linear and non linear modeling of resin bonded sand mould system using full factorial design of experiments and response surface methodology, respectively. It is important to note that the quality of castings produced using the resin bonded sand mould system depends largely on properties of moulds, which are influenced by the characteristics of sand, like type of sand, grain fineness number, grain size distribution and quantity and type of resin, catalyst, curing time etc. In the present study, percentage of resin, percentage of hardener, number of strokes and curing time are considered as input parameters and the mould properties, such as compression strength, shear strength, tensile strength and permeability are treated as responses. In the present work, phenol formaldehyde is used as the resin whereas tetrahydrophthalic anhydride as the hardener. A two level full factorial and three level central composite designs are utilized to develop input-output relationships. Surface plots and main effects plots are used to study the effects of amount of resign, amount of hardener, number of strokes and curing time on the responses, namely, compression strength, tensile strength, shear strength and permeability. Moreover, the adequacies of the developed models have been tested using analysis of variance. The prediction accuracy of the developed models have been tested with the help of twenty test cases and found reasonably good accuracy.
Squirrel cage fan is a special type of turbo machines commonly used in industries and buildings (as a part of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems). There are lots of important parameters that can affect the performance and efficiency (energy consuming). Experiments have shown that there are some turbulent areas in volute and impeller, and also in few cases, the relationships between the fan parameters, geometry and nondimensional parameters, and turbulent areas or performances were defined.
In this paper, the effect of inlet-nozzle diameter on performance and flow pattern is considered. Three inlet nozzle sizes with respect to impeller size were chosen (smaller, nearly same, and bigger than inner impeller diameter), and numerical simulations with different turbulence models were performed to find the effect of inlet size on flow pattern, performance, and efficiency. For the validation of numerical results, some experiments were done, and all the performance parameters were compared to that of numerical results. These results showed good matching between experimental and numerical results. From each case study, flow pattern and its mechanism and the reasons of low efficiency are studied and presented.
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