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Centrifugal Pumps Design and Application 2nd ed - Val S. Lobanoff, Robert R. Ross (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992)

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NPSH 95<br />

Figure 8-10. Leakage across wear ring back to impeller eye.<br />

Figure 8-11. Leakage across high pressure bushing back to impeller eye.<br />

lines in a multi-stage pump (Figures 8-10 <strong>and</strong> 8-11) should be add<strong>ed</strong> to<br />

the flow Q entering the impeller eye. This leakage will vary with the<br />

head develop<strong>ed</strong> <strong>and</strong> therefore has more influence on a during low flow<br />

operation. <strong>Pumps</strong> of low specific spe<strong>ed</strong> where ring leakage can be a significant<br />

percentage of pump flow will show increas<strong>ed</strong> NPSHR with increas<strong>ed</strong><br />

ring clearance. One example is shown in Figure 8-12.

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