Airlift Pump Investigation using Variation on Pipe Diameter Based On Computational Fluid dynamics
(1) Natanael Bima Anansa, (2) Stefan Mardikus, (3) William Ferdi Famgeorgy

Department of mechanical engineering
Faculty of sains and technology sanata
Dharma university, Yogyayakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

Water is a liquid fluid that plays an important role in our daily lives that has properties that are easy to distribute from high pressure places to low pressure places and the opposite. The type of pump used to drain water is in the form of an airlift pump.This study aims to determine the discharge output and contour pressure as well as the streamlined velocity phenomenon that occurs in the airlift pump.The process of designing the geometry of the airlift pump using Solidworks software is then simulated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based on ANSYS.The simulation shows that the larger the diameter of the airlift pump pipe, the greater the resulting discharge. Contour pressure shows, the larger the diameter of the pipe, the smaller the pressure entering the pipe. Streamlined velocity indicates the velocity of flow in the pipe.To determine the best performance of the airlift pump based on the variations given and to know the flow pattern phenomena that occur in the airlift pump simulation.

Keywords: Please Just Try to Airlift pump- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)- Mass flow rate- Multiphase- and Pipe diameter.Submit This Sample Abstract

Topic: Engineering