3D Airlift Pump Simulation With Variation of Nozzle Diameter Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics

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10.2991/978-94-6463-284-2_23How to use a DOI?

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3D Airlift Pump Simulation; Nozzle Diameter; Computational Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

Water is a liquid that plays an important role in our daily lives that has properties that are easy to distribure from high to low pressure places and the opposite from high to low pressure places using an airlift pump that working principle in the form of transporting water with the help of a mass flow rate of water or the flow rate of air masses flowed through a nozzle connected to a pipe containing water to be pumped to the riser up to the top of the pipe. The purpose of this study is to determine the performance of the airlift pump when operated with different variations of nozzle diameter and mass flow rate and the shape of the resulting flow pattern. In the implementation of making this airlift pump simulation, it is designed and simulated using Ansys 3D simulation based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) which is operated using a two-phase mixture (multiphase) in the form of air and water phase. In simulation tests, variations in the size of the nozzle diameter and mass flow rate are given to find the magnitude of the value of the fluid outflow rate. The research method used was to use an ansys 3D simulation based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with variations in nozzle diameter sizes of 10 mm, 12 mm, 14 mm and 16 mm and also giving variations in mass flow rates of 0,010 kg/s, 0,015 kg/s, 0,020 kg/s, 0,025 kg/s and 0,030 kg/s. The process in this simulation research starts from the actual measurement of the air lift pump to desribing the Solidworks 2020 application to design an airlift pump and after that we need to continue to running it in an ansys 3D simulation based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The result obtained from this study are in the form of discharge result produced by the airlift pump by providing variations in the size of the nozzle diameter that are getting larger will cause a decrease in the discharge value of the fluid outlet. In addition, the result obtained from each mass flow rate variation and the increasing size variation in the diameter of the nozzle produce a random contour pressure shape in each variation with a variety of pressure ranges. The shape of the streamline velocity flow pattern obtained is become more and more regular with a decreasing range of velocity values.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - William Ferdi Famgeorgy
AU  - Stefan Mardikus
AU  - Natanael Bima Anansa
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/09
TI  - 3D Airlift Pump Simulation With Variation of Nozzle Diameter Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Borobudur International Symposium on Science and Technology 2022 (BIS-STE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 192
EP  - 198
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-284-2_23
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-284-2_23
ID  - Famgeorgy2023
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