Air entrainment and pressure drop in low-cost ejectors

Lima, Daniel D; Neto, Iran Eduardo Lima

doi:10.1590/0001-3765202020191444

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“…Jet pumps have long been used for the purposes of aeration, pumping, and evaporation. They are applied in the fields of chemical industries, environmental treatment, civil engineering, agriculture, mining, and mechanical engineering, − including water treatment, refrigeration, desalination, mixing, and dredging . The most important concern in these fields is the pressure drop (energy loss) of the jet pump, which generally attracts attention in the above fields and is directly related to the determination of power equipment capacity, the working range of quantitative water addition, and the energy consumption in water treatment.…”

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Research on the Law of Head Loss of Jet Pumps in the Cavitation State

Gan

Wang

et al. 2022

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Liquid flow is subject to head loss because of viscous force, surface tension, friction force, and so on. Part of the energy is irreversibly converted into heat, which then dissipates into the environment. Head loss intensifies in the turbulent state. At present, few studies explore the law of head loss caused by secondary flow, cavitation intensity, and turbulence intensity. In this study, the head losses in different sections of a jet pump were studied by controlling the cavitation number σ, the secondary flow rate Q s , and the inlet pressure p i . The experimental results were analyzed with the aid of computational fluid dynamics. The results show that an increase in Q s can weaken the variations of Q s and suction pressure p s in the transitional stage of cavitation. Besides, σ, Q s , and p i influence head loss to varying extents. Cavitation intensity and turbulence intensity are the main factors for head loss and jet temperature difference. In particular, the influence of Q s on head loss provides guidance both for reducing the energy loss of the quantitative adding device and jet aerator and for expanding the stable adding range of the jet. More importantly, the main factors of energy loss caused by jet cavitation were analyzed in detail, which can effectively facilitate the pipeline design to reduce the local and frictional head loss.

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