Research Article

The Effect of Viscosity on Performance of a Low Specific Speed Centrifugal Pump

Table 3

Effect of operating point location on reduction of pump head for three viscous fluids:  cSt (Re = 43 × 103),  cSt (Re = 24 × 103), and  cSt (Re = 17 × 103).


0.50.070.120.14
0.650.110.170.20
0.80.120.200.26
1.10.20.320.38