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Impeller in suction pipe Thai Phaya-Nakh for agriculture

Jaruphant Noosomton (Department of Marine Engineering, Faculty of International Maritime Studies, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand)

Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology

ISSN: 1726-0531

Article publication date: 31 July 2021

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Abstract

Purpose

The suction pipes are important in agriculture and are used widely in water management and agricultural–mechanical industry in ASEAN. Thus, this paper aims to present design of new impeller in suction pipe and include shape blade impeller to optimize for suction head, which has been higher than efficiency local-type by the performance. It mostly depends on the hydrodynamic characteristics, e.g. lift, drag and ratio, which is known as the “Thai Phaya-Nakh pipe”.

Design/methodology/approach

By approach NACA methodology and use applied technique: leading edge of blade, skew-line, cambered-line, developed area and advanced number etc., for analyzing data which the result of CFD simulation.

Findings

The models were tested in field by using motor at rotation speed 1500 rpm and found that the summarized average suction efficiency of the new impeller was estimated to be 72%, which has been greater than that of the local-type impeller with an average suction efficiency of 28% to 2.6 times. In addition, the amount of required electrical energy was reduced by 18%.

Originality/value

Then after analyzing the data from the static pressure distribution flow rate of impeller models, it is found that the new curved impeller has higher flow rate than the local type impeller. Thus, this study suggests the shape new impeller has higher flow rate than the local type impeller.

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Acknowledgements

This study was partly supported by the Thailand Research Fund (TRF; www.trf.or.th), and the author would like thank the supported research Phase-I by Vichaikarnkon Factory (57 Moo 1, Malaiman Rd., Bang Kung, Amphoe Muang, Suphanburi, 72210, Thailand. Tel. 035–599255, 035–540187 Fax. 035–599536) for contributions toward this work.

Retraction notice: The publishers of Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology wish to retract the article “Impeller in suction pipe Thai Phaya-Nakh for agriculture”, by Juraphant Noosomton, which appeared ahead of print.

It has come to our attention that large portions of this article are taken, without attribution, from earlier articles:

• Ahmad, Z., Jain, B., Kumar, S. and Mittal, M. (2010), “Rational Design of a Pump-Sump and Its Model Testing”, Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 2 (2), https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)PS.1949-1204.0000074

• Noosomton, J. and Gunnuang, W. (2017), “Case Study on CFD Simulation and Experiment of New Developed Propeller for Trailing Thai Boat”, Fifth International Symposium on Marine Propulsors smp’17, Espoo, Finland, www.marinepropulsors.com/proceedings/2017/MC2-4.pdf

• Yamade, Y., Kato, C., Nagahara, T. and Matsui, J. (2020), “Suction Vortices in a Pump Sump–Their Origin, Formation, and Dynamics”, Journal of Fluids Engineering, 142 (3), https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4045953

The Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology submission guidelines make it clear that articles must be original and must not infringe any existing copyright. The publishers of the journal sincerely apologise to the readers and the original authors.

Citation

Noosomton, J. (2021), "Impeller in suction pipe Thai Phaya-Nakh for agriculture", Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEDT-03-2021-0173

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