MSD I – Mid Project PresentationWinter 08/09

P09454: Design & Testing of Centrifugal Pump Components

Design Team:

Rishitha Dias - ISE – Project Manager

Kevin Klucher - ME – Lead Engineer

John Hayles - ME

Reme Meck - ME

Ammar Jangbarwala - ME

Project Background:

Project Family: Sustainable Technologies for the Global Marketplace

Project Track: Flow Visualization

Sponsor: Dresser-Rand Corp.

Faculty Guide: Dr. S. Day

Project Deliverable:

The goal of the project is to design, build, test and deliver to KGCOE, a centrifugal pump system for particle imaging velocimetry studies, which can be used both as a teaching tool for undergraduate students as well as a research tool for graduate and faculty researchers.

Customer Needs:

Existing Pump System:

Close-up view of Pump

Housing & Impeller

Sensors & Actuators

Tank

GUI

Existing Pump System:

Design Concept:

Interchangeable Diffuser

Interchangeable Impeller

Impeller and Diffuser Design Examples

Design Concept:

System Architecture:

Risk Item:

Machining acrylic to make impellers is challenging

Complex impeller designs are costly to manufacture

Manufacture impeller blades separately and glue to back-plate

Use Rapid Prototyping for complex geometries

Risk Mitigation:

High Risk: Part Manufacturing

High Risk: Technology

Risk Item:

Impeller/Diffuser Performance will not meet desired levels

GUI I/O control for motor needs to be implemented

Use empirical results to improve component design

Seek assistance from Faculty Consultant

Risk Mitigation:

Overall Progress:Platform: The existing pump system is

functioning at an acceptable level.

Schedule: The Design & Analysis is on schedule. Awaiting customer feedback to finalize.

Budget: $6,500, expected costs are $2,100, not including the machining costs

Performance: Customer needs: On track to meet all customer needs,

except Motor I/O control with GUI Specification: On track to meet all specifications, except

Pump Efficiency levels

Product development Phase:

Current Stage Current Stage of Designof Design

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 4

MSD IMSD I MSD IIMSD II

Planning

Concept Development

System Level Design

Testing & Refineme

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MSD II Milestones:

Week 1 End: Improve Impeller Designs using Empirical Data

Week 4 End: Completed Housing AssemblyWeek 5 End: Complete Basic Testing of Sealing

etc.Week 6 End: Complete GUI I/O systemWeek 8 End: Complete Pump Performance Testing Week 9 End: Testing & Verification FinalizedWeek 10 End: Documentation Finalized, Project

Review

Questions: