A new double suction impeller, in particular for centrifugal pumps and hydraulic power recovery turbines, wherein the flow-path arrangement has inter-blade channels intersecting each other at the impeller's outer diameter so that the equivalent number of blades is doubled with respect to a conventional configuration obtained by the coupling of two single suction impellers.

The aspects described herein enable improved axial airflow along the entire length of the blades of a fan. The fan includes a hub with fan blades extending therefrom. Each fan blade couples to the hub and includes a proximal end, a distal end, a leading edge, and a trailing edge. Each fan blade is non-uniform, twisted, reverse-swept, and non-airfoil. The width at the proximal end is greater than the width of a fan blade at the distal end. The twist begins at the neck at the proximal end of the fan blade and continues along the length of the radius toward the distal end. The thickness of each fan blade along its chord width remains approximately the same, and thus non-airfoil. As a result, the fan provides axial airflow along the entire length of each fan blade, instead of just outer regions of the fan blades.

A centrifugal pump for pressurizing fluid by using centrifugal force has an impeller and a casing. The impeller is operated rotatably by an actuator. The casing houses the impeller. The impeller has blades arranged one after another in a circumferential direction of the impeller, and a passage is defined between the blades adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The passage has a linear portion and a curved portion. The linear portion extends linearly and has a uniform cross section. The curved portion is connected to an end of the linear portion, extends as being curved to a radial-outer side of the impeller, and decreases in cross section toward the radial-outer side.

An impeller for a centrifugal rotary machine has a plurality of blades (4) arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction on a face facing a direction of an axis of a disc (3) formed in a discoid shape about the axis, wherein the blades (4) each include a first section (10A) rising from the disc (3) and inclined toward an opposite direction of a rotary direction (R) as the distance from the disc and a second section (11A) continuing from the first section (10A) and inclined toward a forward direction of the rotary direction (R) as the distance from the disc (3) between the leading edges and the trailing edges in the blades (4).

A pump system for high pressure, high volume applications is presented. The pump system includes a turbo-shaft engine having a drive shaft and a high pressure, high RPM centrifugal pump coupled to the drive shaft. In certain embodiments the pump system further includes a second low pressure, high RPM centrifugal pump coupled to the drive shaft.

A multi-phase rotor comprising a disk body, an inlet to receive a liquid into the rotor, and at least one outlet configured to expel the liquid from the internal rotor cavity. A flow path is provided between the inlet and the at least one outlet by a liquid intake channel and internal rotor cavity. The rotor is configured to be rotatable about an axis of rotation and a continuous stable vapour cavity is formed in the internal rotor cavity as the rotor rotates above a stable cavity threshold rotational speed.

An impeller is provided, which includes an upper plate, blades, and a lower plate. The blades are arranged between the upper plate and lower plate. The upper plate includes an upper surface and a lower surface, the blades are integrally formed with the upper plate by injection molding, and the blades are located at the lower surface of the upper plate. The blades include first blades. Each of the first blades includes one arc, a combination of multiple arcs, or a combination of multiple arcs and straight lines. The first blades are uniformly distributed along a circumference of the upper plate, and the first blade includes a first tail, and the first tail of the first blade make a first side of the first blade have no intersection with an outer edge of the upper plate.

A centrifugal fluid machine includes an impeller (4) that has a front shroud (41) arranged on one side in an axial direction, a rear shroud (42) arranged on the other side in the axial direction, and a plurality of blades (43) provided side by side in a circumferential direction between the front shroud and the rear shroud and is rotatably supported within a casing (2); a suction passage (2A) that allows a fluid to be sucked therethrough in the axial direction toward the impeller with the rotation of the impeller; a discharge passage (2B) that allows a fluid delivered under pressure by the impeller with the rotation of the impeller to be discharged in a direction intersecting the axial direction of the impeller; and a first flow path (5A) that communicates with the discharge passage, leads to the suction passage through a gap between the casing and the rear shroud, and an opening (5Aa) that opens toward the downstream side of the suction passage in a suction direction of a fluid. The opening area of the opening is set so that the ejection speed (Vs) of a fluid ejected from the opening to the suction passage is matched with the suction speed (V) of a fluid sucked into the suction passage.

The invention concerns a rotor machine and an impeller, of which the rotor machine is intended to function as a liquid pump or as an agitator in a fluid such as a liquid or a colloid, whereby the rotor machine has a pump casing (1) with an impeller (2) mounted in bearings in a manner that allows rotation around an axis (X), and in which the rotor machine has three principal flow pathways, comprising: an axial inlet opening (4) with a defined area of opening (Ain) a radially oriented outlet opening (5) with a defined area of opening (Aut), and a series of radially extending blades (3) that, distributed around the circumference of the impeller, form between them a number of flow channels (22:1-22:n). In order to achieve an improved working capacity, the area of opening (Ain) of the inlet opening (4), the area of opening (Aut) of the outlet opening and the total effective area of opening of the flow channels (22:1-22:n) that extends through the impeller are so mutually designed that the three principal passages of the rotor machine are filled and emptied of the said fluid in an essentially equal manner.

An impeller for a pump for conveying wastewater is proposed, includes a shroud to be rotated about an axis of rotation defining an axial direction, and a blade to convey the wastewater. The blade includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side, a suction side and an upper rim. The blade extends from the shroud in the axial direction to the upper rim and extends in a circumferential direction from the leading edge to the trailing edge. The suction side is the radially inner surface of the blade and the pressure side is the radially outer surface of the blade. The blade includes a closed passage extending inside the blade. The passage has an inlet at the pressure side and an outlet at the suction side of the blade.