Pump Designers Focus on Design Efficiency

By DE Editors

Advanced Design Technology (ADT) announced the results of its 2012 Pump Design Survey, which set out to identify opportunities for using 3D inverse design technology in pump designs.
 
ADT's 2012 Pump Design Survey, conducted via email with ADT customers and prospects, directly targeted pump design engineers at consulting and original equipment manufacturing companies. The survey results showed that improving impeller designs for better efficiency was very important for the majority of the respondents (84 out of 90).
 
"As any pump designer knows, the impeller plays a key role in pump system operation and has the largest impact on the overall system efficiency," said Mehrdad Zangeneh, professor of thermofluids at University College London and founding director of ADT.
 
The survey results reflect the responses of 90 participants who were asked to state whether certain performance targets are 1) not important at all, 2) somewhat important, or 3) very important.
 
According to the survey, 79 of 90 respondents stated that improvement to pump stage efficiency is very important, while 65 of 90 respondents stated that improvement to pump stage cavitation performance is very important. Just 50 of 90 respondents stated that reduction in manufacturing costs was very important.
 
"It is clear to us why impeller efficiency is so important to pump manufacturers," added Zangeneh. "Reports show that in some industries energy and maintenance costs can account for up to 70 percent of the total pump life cycle costs. Considerable savings can be achieved with improved impeller designs."
 
In response to the survey results, ADT has launched its ADT Pump Efficiency Initiative to provide pump design services applying TURBOdesign Suite for systematic pump optimization.

For more information, visit ADT.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.