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Project of Cavitation

This document presents a group project on using cavitation to purify water in a modified hand pump. It introduces cavitation and how snapping shrimp use it to kill enemies. The project proposes placing a cavitation pump inside a hand pump that would release cavities on each stroke to purify underground water. It discusses how cavitation reaches temperatures over 10,000 Kelvin to purify water and addresses drawbacks like erosion in cavitation pumps.

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Project of Cavitation

This document presents a group project on using cavitation to purify water in a modified hand pump. It introduces cavitation and how snapping shrimp use it to kill enemies. The project proposes placing a cavitation pump inside a hand pump that would release cavities on each stroke to purify underground water. It discusses how cavitation reaches temperatures over 10,000 Kelvin to purify water and addresses drawbacks like erosion in cavitation pumps.

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National Institute of Technology Agartala

Department of Chemical Engineering

Subject: Technical Writing and Seminar


(UCH05P17)

Topic: -Purification of water by Cavitation.

Presented by:
[Group-02]

1. MoumitaMalakar.(18UCH001)
2.BimalenduBarua.(18UCH002)
3. Nabarun Debnath.(18UCH006)
4. Aadesh Malviya.(18UCH007)
5. Aditi Chakraborty.(18UCH025)
6. Sujeet Kumar Gond.(18UCH055)
CONTENTS

SUMMARY

INTRDUCTON

CAVITATION AND THE RISE IN TEMPERATURE

CAVITATIN PUMP

PURIFICATION OF WATER

DRAWBACK OF CAVITATION PUMP

CONCLUSION

REFERENCE
Summary

This project is actually a case study in which we will see how basic chemical engineering
principles are utilized to give portable disinfected water by modifying the hand pump. It’s the
human behavior that whatever we like to do is actually a mimic from the nature.
We know snapping shrimp which is actually a sea creature, it has pincer attached to his hands,
and using these pincers it kills its enemy. Now what we are interested is how it kills its enemy.
When this snapping shrimp moves its pincers at significantly high velocity, now when the
velocity is enough high that the pressure reduced and comes equals to the vapor pressure of
the medium and spontaneous boiling takes place. As the cavity moves from low pressure
region to high pressure region, it collapses. The collapse is so intense that the temperature rise
is approximately equal to 10,000 Kelvin. So, the collapsing of cavity can be used to purify water
at optimizing condition. We will place a cavitation pump inside a hand pump and at every
stroke the cavitation pump will release cavity and the underground water can be purified. This
is a basic idea how this modified form of hand pump is useful to disinfect water.
INTRODUCTION

In the world most of us live in rural areas where they mainly depend on the river water or
underground water. The most common equipment that is widely used for pumping underground
water is handpump. Direct drink of this water may be harmful for health as it may contain
bacteria or other microbiological things. So, we must do treatment before we drink this water.
Water treatment removes bacteria and undesirable components or reduces their concentration,
so that the water becomes fit for human. This treatment is crucial to human health and allows
humans to benefit from both drinking and irrigation use.

There are many methods of water purification. Cavitation pump is one of the equipment of
water purification. This is a new advanced technology in the field of water purification.
Cavitation mainly occurs when the pressure decreases to some point below the saturated vapor
pressure of the liquid.
PURIFICATION OF WATER:
In underground water & waste water which is not purely fresh and healthful for human. So must
be treatment(cleaning) the water before use. Here hydrodynamic cavitation pump useful for
treatment water. There also can be combined other techniques such as ultrasonics or/and ultra
violet lights to remove most of the microbiological that may cause illness.
In pump suction the water reach to the boiling point (as the pressure drop very low) where the
water forms bubbles that collapse against the impeller with enough force to release heat
(approximately 10,000 Kelvin). That help for purify the water.
DRAWBACK OF CAVITATION PUMP:
Now a day’s hydrodynamic cavitation erosion is a major problem in cavitation pump. Several
studies reveal that the influence of temperature and high pressure are mainly responsible for
erosion in water.
When a pump discharge pressure it makes difficulty for the fluids to flow out of the pump, so it
circulates inside the pump and causing very high velocity at the housing wall. The formation of
bubbles in the pump that triggers intense shockwaves & can cause the impeller shaft to break.
Besides these the collapse of the cavitation bubbles makes much noise when we start the pump.

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