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Abstract - Centrifugal pumps are among the more versatile occurred to the machine so that ample time is available to
and widely used products of rotating mechanical equipment schedule repairs with minimum disruption to operation and
found today. Pumps are essential in almost all utilities services production. Broch [2] states that there has been
and power generation plants. The basic principal of operation considerable interest in the maintenance techniques based
for a centrifugal pump is that a shaft is mounted on a rotating on condition monitoring, with the analysis of vibration
impeller inside a housing (volute) imparts energy to the fluid
characteristics generated by machines, which makes it
being moved. Centrifugal pumps utilize centrifugal force (thus
their name) to increase the velocity of the fluid as it passes possible to determine whether the machinery is in good or
through the impeller and exits at the tip or periphery of the bad condition. Simmons [3] opened that vibration from their
impeller. This action converts mechanical energy (shaft sources may be small but excite the resonant frequencies of
torque) into kinetic energy by acceleration of the fluid to a the rotating parts such as the rotor shaft and set-up
higher velocity and pressure (potential energy). It is necessary considerable extra dynamic load on bearings. The cause and
to be concerned about the vibrations because it has a major
effect reinforce each other and the machine reaches towards
affect on the performance of Centrifugal pump. This vibration
reduces the expected life of the pump components. As ultimate break down. As per Gyarmathy [4] there are
maintenance is the art of prolonging the useful operating generally two situations in which vibration measurements
condition of equipment. The present work identifies the are taken. One of them is surveillance mode to check the
natural frequency, mode shapes to corresponding frequency, machinery health on routine basis. The second situation is
shock, random and harmonic behavior of centrifugal pump. during an analysis process where the ultimate goal is to tag
the problem. In the later case, vibration measurements are
Key Words: Centrifugal pump, Modal Analysis, Shock taken to understand the cause, so that an appropriate fix can
Spectrum Analysis, Random Analysis, Harmonic
be undertaken. Lingaraju [5] Vibration monitoring which is
Analysis, Frequency and Displacement.
most frequently used method in condition monitoring
provides information about machinery condition as it can
reveal the cause of potential problem and provide an early
1. INTRODUCTION
indication of mechanical failure. This gives the possibility for
Vibration Analysis is applied in an industrial or maintenance diagnosing and converting malfunctions leading to an
environment aims to reduce maintenance costs and optimum management of engine operation.
equipment downtime by detecting equipment faults. It
VIBRATION ANALYSIS PROCEDURE:
provides accurate results and produces graphic designs,
which is quite helpful for the service operators to detect the Attach Geometry
faults. Assign Material Properties
Define Mesh Controls
In recent years as observed by R.K BISWAS, [1] states that
Define Analysis Type
Condition Monitoring is defined as the collection,
Include Supports
Comparison and storage of measurements defining machine
Set Frequency Finder Options
condition. Almost everyone will recognize the existence of
Solve the Model
machine problems sooner or later. The main objective of
Review Result
Condition Monitoring is to recognize the damage that has
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Here we fix the base of the pump and solve the model with
predefined engineering data.
Fixing Supports
MESHING
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Table-1:
S NO Frequency Frequency from % Error Fig -6 Mode-3
from ANSYS Theory
1 86.5 89 2.8
2 255.5 258.8 1.27
3 342.1 346.4 1.24
4 750.4 759.2 1.15
5 980.8 991.2 1.04
6 1061.6 1101.8 3.64
These are the six mode shapes that are created at six
different frequencies.
Fig -7 Mode-4
Fig -4 Mode-1
Fig -8 Mode-5
Fig -5 Mode-2
Fig -9 Mode-6
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RANDOM ANALYSIS
Here we give PSD function as input along with the results Fig -17 Deformation along X axis
from Modal Analysis.
The Range of Deformation along y axis of pump can be
observed from Fig.18
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HARMONIC ANALYSIS
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REFERENCES
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