Modeling and Sliding Mode Control of Rotating Helical Pump

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Assistant professor, Faculty of mechanical engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, IRAN

Abstract

Two-phase fluids transportation is very important in the industry. Rotating helical pump is a special form that can be used to transfer fluid-gas flows and also to generate pulsatile flows. The structure of this pump differs from conventional pumps and its geometry can be changed during operation. In this paper, while demonstrating a fabricated second version of the rotating helical pump, a dynamic analysis is performed for the first time and the governing equations are extracted based on the input control variables (rotational speed and tilt angle of the pump). In the dynamical analysis, a rotating control volume corresponding to a spiral tube is considered. In order to determine the values of the inputs corresponding to the desired outputs, we use the non-dimensional characteristic curves of the pump that was published in the previous study. Then the control is performed on the basis of two input variables to reach the desired pump head and flow rate. A sliding mode controller is implemented. The results include governing equations of the rotating helical pump that can be used in future studies. Moreover, the results show the success of the sliding mode method in control of the pump.

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Amirkabir Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Volume 52, Issue 8
November 2020
Pages 2277-2292

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