Design Studies Using Corrosive and Non-Corrosive Materials to Improve on Reliability and Efficiency of an Impeller of a Centrifugal Pump

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Design Studies using Corrosive and Non-corrosive Materials to Improve on Reliability and Efficiency of an Impeller of a Centrifugal Pump N. Idris*1, 3and I. U. Umaru2 1Department of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of MaiduguriBorno State, NigeriaEmail: idrismn@unimaid.edu.ng ABSTRACT The quest to improve on the reliability, operability, sustainability of centrifugal pumps in all facets of process operations, oil and gas industries across the globe have a pivoted role to play in the development of world energy technology and sustainability in numerous ways. This is because several operability challenges and malfunctioning of centrifugal pumps can usually results to unexpected shutdown of process operations and mostly in cases with faulty standbys.Centrifugal pump is a type of a turbo machine in which mechanical energy is converted into pressure energy by means of centrifugal force acting on the fluid. The impeller is the revolving component of the centrifugal pump that transmits energy from the electric motor that drives the pump to the fluid being pumped by acceleration of the fluid outwards from the centre of rotation.Several researches have been conducted using experiment and numerical simulations to design the centrifugal pump impellers. As a result of recent research, the performance of contemporary centrifugal pump impellers yielded positive results. However, for sustainability there is a need to design the impellers using corrosive and non-corrosive materials to improve on its reliability and efficiency of the pump.The aim and objective of the studies are: to analyze the pressure, head and efficiency of the designed centrifugal pump impeller, to improve on the efficiency and reliability of a centrifugal pump impeller by changing the blade angle and the use of corrosive and non-corrosive fluids, experimental measurements to analyze the pressure fluctuation performance of a centrifugal pump impeller using CFD. Keywords: Oil and gas, centrifugal pump, reliability, sustainability Correspondence about this article: Please for all correspondence on this article, kindly contact the principal author as stated above. Thank you.