Seminar On

Multi Staging in Centrifugal Pumps

By

Dnyaneshwari Patil – C54 (11810930)

Kinjalk Patil – C55 (11810086)
Samiksha Patil – C62 (11810948)
Vaibhav Patil – C66 (11810408)
Vivek Pawar – C71 (11810581)

Guide – Prof. S.P.Komble

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 CONTENT
INTRODUCTION TO CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS

MULTI-STAGING: SERIES

MULTI-STAGING: PARALLEL

TYPES OF MULTISTAGE CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS

MANUFACTURERS 

CASE STUDY

REFERENCES

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 INTRODUCTION

• What is centrifugal pump?

• Works on principle of forced vortex

flow.

• Components :

a) Impeller                

b) Casing                  

c) Suction Pipe.

d) Delivery Pipe

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 MULTI STAGING

• When two or more impellers are mounted

on the same shaft or on different shaft in a
centrifugal pump is called multistage
centrifugal pumps.

• Need of multistaging

   1) To produce a high head

Graphs for Multi Stage Centrifugal Pump

   2)To discharge a large quantity of liquid Source – Reference No. 2

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 SERIES COMBINATION

• Impellers are connected in series

• To generate high heads

• Constant discharge

• H = n* Hm

• Qtotal = Q
Schematic of Series Pump Cut Section of Series Combination
Pump

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 SERIES COMBINATION

Advantages:

• Friction losses are reduced.

• Impeller diameter is reduced.

• Higher suction lift is possible.

• Axial thrust can be eliminated.

Combined Characteristics Curve For

Multistage Pumps In Series 

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 PARALLEL COMBINATION

• Pumps are connected in Parallel

Schematic of Parallel
• To discharge large quantity of liquid Combination

• Same head

• n = No. of identical pumps arranged in parallel,

Combined Characteristics Curve For

• Q = Discharge from one pump.
Multistage Pump In Parallel

• So, Total discharge, = n × Q

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 PARALLEL COMBINATION

Advantages :

• High flow rate.

• Availability of system.

• Low operating cost.

• Significant energy savings.

Representative Diagram of Centrifugal Centrifugal Pumps in

• Easy Maintenance. Pumps in Parallel Combination Parallel Combination

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TYPES OF MULTISTAGE CENTRIFUGAL PUMP

1) Horizontal Multistage Pump

• Typically have higher flow rates as compared to vertical type.

• It takes high skill to work on these type of pumps.

• Quite costly.

 Applications:
Kirloskar RKB Series Horizontal
Reverse Osmosis, Boiler Feed, Pressure Boosting, High Pressure Multistage Centrifugal Pump

Cleaning, Mine Dewatering, Snow Making.

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TYPES OF MULTISTAGE CENTRIFUGAL PUMP

2) Vertical Multistage Pump

• Great for areas that don’t have much footprint to spare.

• This type of pump does not tolerate debris or significant solids.

• Able to deliver high pressure output with a single pump body and motor.

 Applications:

High Pressure Shower Systems

Boiler Feed Pump CNP’s CDL Series Vertical Multistage

Centrifugal Pump
Desuperheater Feed

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 MANUFACTURERS

CNP Pumps India Pvt. Ltd. Shakti Pumps India Ltd. Aqua Group India Ltd.
Thane, Maharashtra Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Varuna Pumps Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited
Ahmedabad, Gujrat Pune, Maharashtra Mumbai, Maharashtra

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 CASE STUDY / RECENT ADAVNCEMENTS

1) Case Study 2) Paper

• A new twisted blade design of
Return Guide Vane is proposed to
achieve a compact pump structure.

• Also, a prototype is developed to

test the performance of proposed
RGV, which was found to be better
and cost effective.

• Efficiency of the designed model

came out be 57.5 % which is
comparable to previous model.
Hindawi Publications, Ref No 3

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 REFERNCES
1. R.K.Rajput, A textbook of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines, S.Chand Publications.

2. Rakibuzzaman, Sang-Ho Suh, et.al, ‘ A study on Multistage Centrifugal Pump Performance Characteristics for Variable

Speed Driven System ’ 6th BSME International Conference on Thermal Engineering (ICTE 2014), Elsevier Publications, DOI

: 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.05.109.

3. Qihua Zhang, et.al, ‘ A New Proposed Return Guide Vane for Compact Multistage Centrifugal Pumps ’, Hindawi

Publications, Volume 2013, Article ID 683713, DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/683713.

4. Crompton Greaves -

https://www.crompton.co.in/product/consumer-pumps/speciality-pumps/multistage-pumps/cvm-series/

5. Kirloskar Pumps - https://www.kirloskarpumps.com/product/RKB--RKBF--RKBK/.

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