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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
May. 27, 2009
Kevin Edward Burgess, Carlingford, AU;
Wen-jie Liu, Eastwood, AU;
Luis Moscoso Lavagna, North Ryde, AU;
Kevin Edward Burgess, Carlingford, AU;
Wen-Jie Liu, Eastwood, AU;
Luis Moscoso Lavagna, North Ryde, AU;
Abstract
A centrifugal pump impeller includes front and back shrouds and a plurality of pumping vanes therebetween, each pumping vane having a leading edge in the region of an impeller inlet and a trailing edge, the front shroud has an arcuate inner face in the region of the impeller inlet, the arcuate inner face having a radius of curvature (R) in the range from 0.05 to 0.16 of the outer diameter of the impeller (D) The back shroud includes an inner main face and a nose having a curved profile with a nose apex in the region of the central axis which extends towards the front shroud, there being a curved transition region between the inner main face and the nose. Fis the radius of curvature of the transition region and the ratio F/Dis from 0.32 to 0.65. Other ratios of various dimensions of the impeller are also described.