Research Article

Impact of Particle Sizes on Flow Characteristics of Slurry Pump for Deep-Sea Mining

Table 3

Comparison of calculation and experiment.

Particle diameter (mm)Simulation head (m)Test head (m)Simulation efficiency (%)Test efficiency (%)Relative error of head (%)Relative error of efficiency (%)

519.1518.9968.7071.020.843.27
1018.9118.8467.7870.460.373.80
1518.6918.7667.0870.140.374.36