A Study on the Effects of Blade Thickness on the Performance of Low Specific Speed Centrifugal Pump

The effects of blade thickness on impeller performance is seldom considered when design the low specific speed centrifugal pump and only considered crowding coefficient when use the speed coefficient method calculate the head of the impeller was designed. It was didn't consider the fundamental relationship how leaf thickness and low specific speed centrifugal impeller performance effect each other. The three-dimensional of flow area would have large influence if the leaf thickness changes . Here the best true thickness of the low specific speed centrifugal impeller blade was obtained though study how the thickness of blade influence on the performance of low specific speed centrifugal pump.