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Lab # 2 Gear Pump: Objective

The document describes a lab experiment on a gear pump. The objective is to identify the pump's characteristic data and investigate dependencies. The apparatus includes a gear pump setup with sensors for pressure, temperature, and flow rate. Procedures are described to collect data by varying the pump speed and throttling valve position, and plotting graphs of flow rate and pressure versus speed. Key observations are that increasing flow rate decreases pressure at constant speed, while increasing speed increases flow rate.

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Lab # 2 Gear Pump: Objective

The document describes a lab experiment on a gear pump. The objective is to identify the pump's characteristic data and investigate dependencies. The apparatus includes a gear pump setup with sensors for pressure, temperature, and flow rate. Procedures are described to collect data by varying the pump speed and throttling valve position, and plotting graphs of flow rate and pressure versus speed. Key observations are that increasing flow rate decreases pressure at constant speed, while increasing speed increases flow rate.

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Lab # 2

Gear pump
OBJECTIVE:
 Identify characteristic data and investigate the dependencies of a gear pump.

APPARATUS:
 HM 286
 PCS

INTRODUCTION:

Gear pumps
Gear pumps belong to the group of positive displacement pumps with a continuous flow.
Two counter-rotating gears transport the medium. The transported medium is between the
housing and the tooth spaces. The pulsation-free flow increases linearly with speed. These
pumps are particularly suitable for the generation of medium-high pressure at low flow rates.
 It moves a fluid by repeatedly enclosing a fixed volume using interlocking cogs or gears,
transferring it mechanically using a cyclic pumping action.  It delivers a smooth pulse-free
flow proportional to the rotational speed of its gears.

Figure2.1: Gear pumps


HM 286 
HM 286 features a closed circuit with a tank and a gear pump with variable speed via
frequency converter. The pump gears are mounted in a transparent housing and can be
observed0 during operation. Flow rate and head are adjusted via a needle valve and an
overflow valve. Oil is used as the medium.

The experimental unit is fitted with sensors for pressure and temperature. The oval wheel
meter is especially used for the accurate flow measurement of viscous liquids. Oval wheel
meters operate on the positive displacement principle with two precise oval gear wheels. The
microprocessor-based measuring technique is well protected in the housing. The measured

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values are transmitted directly to a PC via USB where they can be analysed using the
software included.

All the advantages of software-supported experiments with operation and evaluation are
offered by the GUNT software and the microprocessor. The experimental unit provides the
basic experiments to get to know the operating behavior and the most important characteristic
variables of gear pumps

Figure2.2: HM 286
PROCEDURE:
 We connected the setup with power supply and turned on PC.
 Click on the software icon, a window appears which show the different parameters.
 We set the pump speed to 600 min−1in measurement data acquisition program of system.

Figure2.
3: System diagram

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 We set the flow rate to 0 by throttle valve then increased the flow rate gradually and
observed the measured values by system.
 We selected graph and plotted graph between flow rate and outlet pressure of pump from
the observed reading.
 Similarly, we set the pump speed to 1000 min−1, observed the pump characteristics and
plotted the same graph to compare the pump characteristics at different speeds.
 To observe the system characteristics, we set the throttle valve and any position.
 Without changing the position of throttle valve we changed the speed of system gradually
by the software.
 We selected graph and plotted graph between speed flow rate and outlet pressure of pump
(i.e speed on x axis) from the observed reading to compare the effect of changing pump
speed on flow rate and hydraulic pressure at fixed position of throttle valve
 Then we changed the position of throttle valve and fixed it.
 We changer the speed by system gradually and observed the readings.
 Then we plotted graph between speed and flow rate.

OBSERVATIONS:
t T p1 P2 Dv/dt P-el n P-hyd Eta
[h-mins] [DegC] [bar] [bar] [l/min] [W] [1/min] [w] [%]

Figure2.4: Observed reading for pump speed 600 min−1

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Figure2.5: Graph between flow rate and outlet pressure at pump speed 600min−1

t T p1 P2 Dv/dt P-el n P-hyd Eta


[h-mins] [DegC] [bar] [bar] [l/min] [W] [1/min] [w] [%]

Figure2.6: Observed reading at pump speed 1000 min−1

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Figure2.7: Graph between flow rate and outlet pressure at pump speed 1000min−1

t T p1 P2 Dv/dt P-el n P-hyd Eta


[h-mins] [DegC] [bar] [bar] [l/min] [W] [1/min] [w] [%]

Figure2.8: Observed reading at any fixed position of throttle valve

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Figure2.9: Graph b/w speed, flow rate, hydraulic pressure at fixed position of throttle valve

t T p1 P2 Dv/dt P-el n P-hyd Eta


[h-mins] [DegC] [bar] [bar] [l/min] [W] [1/min] [w] [%]

Figure2.10: Observed reading at any fixed position of throttle valve

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Figure2.11: Graph between speed and flow rate at fixed position of throttle valve

Questions:
Question#1: Why gear pumps are called positive displacement pumps?
Answer:

Question#2: If the speed of the pump is kept constant and we increase the flow rate
what will be the effect on outlet pressure?
Answer:

Question#3: If we increase the speed what will be the effect on flow rate?
Answer:

Conclusion:
From this lab I become familiar with the working of gear pump and by plotting the pump
characteristics and system characteristics I observed that by increasing flow rate pressure
decreases at constant speed.

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