Design and construction of an educatinal pump bench with operational controls

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System characteristics of automated pumping systems may change due to wear, aging of piping, and accumulation of deposits in the system and/or due to configuration changes. Such changes might result in conflicts between the controlling algorithms and the actual system requirements for each particular case. The said mismatch between the actual physical system and the software controlling it, may result in inefficient operation of the pump which may even lead to total system failures (overpressurization of instrumentation and sensing elements etc.) due to temporary malfunctioning of the system components or permanent damages incurred by them during operating under unsuitable conditions. It is intended in this study to design and construct an experimental automated pump bench with operational components (mechanical, electronical and instrumentation etc.), serving in a system introducing multiple geometric heads and its controlling and monitoring software in order to visualize effects of the above-mentioned cases for education and training purposes. System characteristics data acquisition module (system test module) provides the means of recognizing new pump and system characteristics, provided that they were changed due to some reason (throttled valve, changed pump speed, changed flowrate or elevation of discharge etc.). Then the pump operation module enables users to make comparative judgments by observing the effects of the abovementioned changes. Above-mentioned testing sequence and monitoring of changing physical quantities were achieved by employing four pressure transducers, a custom made DC motor operated -throttling valve with position feedback which was designed and constructed specifically for this study and a variable frequency drive (VFD) which were all connected to a custom made Main Control Circuit (MCC) Board.

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Mechanical engineering.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14876

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B. Güner, “Design and construction of an educatinal pump bench with operational controls,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.