Archives of Acoustics, 45, 3, pp. 541–556, 2020
10.24425/aoa.2020.134070

Experimental Comparative Investigations to Evaluate Cavitation Conditions within a Centrifugal Pump Based on Vibration and Acoustic Analyses Techniques

Ahmed Ramadhan AL-OBAIDI
Al-Mustansiriyah University
Iraq

Cavitation is an essential problem that occurs in all kinds of pumps. This cavitation contributes highly towards the deterioration in the performance of the pump. In industrial applications, it is very vital to detect and decrease the effect of the cavitation in pumps. Using different techniques to analysis and diagnose cavitation leads to increase in the reliability of cavitation detection. The use of various techniques such as vibration and acoustic analyses can provide a more robust detection of cavitation within the pump. In this work therefore, focus is put on detecting and diagnosing the cavitation phenomenon within a centrifugal pump using vibration and acoustic techniques. The results obtained from vibration and acoustic signals in time and frequency domains were analysed in order to achieve better understanding regarding detection of cavitation within a pump. The effect of different operating conditions related to the cavitation was investigated in this work using different statistical features in time domain analysis (TDA). Moreover, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) technique for frequency domain analysis (FDA) was also applied. Furthermore, the comparison and evaluation system among different techniques to find an adequate technique incorporating for accuracy and to increase the reliability of detection and diagnosing different levels of cavitation within a centrifugal pump were also investigated.
Keywords: centrifugal pump; cavitation; Fast Fourier Transform; vibration; acoustic; normalise features
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DOI: 10.24425/aoa.2020.134070