Abstract
Regarding wear issues of a dredge pump’s impeller as a cutter suction dredger transports medium coarse sand slurry, blades of the D850 dredge pump are modified and optimized, which extends the distance from the blade inlet root to the impeller suction and avoids damages of the impeller suction anti-wear ring. Analyses via computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation show that the head and the efficiency after blade modification have little changes compared with before optimization in the construction flow range of 10000-12000 m3/h under coarse sand condition. While it improves the flow field of impeller’s channels, decreases the vortex at the inlet root of the blades, ensures more uniform distribution of the solid particles. Meanwhile, this is beneficial to reductions of the channels’ wears. Applications from constructions show some improvements in the wears of the blade root. Through the construction data comparison, after replacing the modified impeller, dredging productivity will be increased by 15.1% and the fuel consumption per 10000 m3 will be then reduced by 11.5%.
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