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Mechanical analysis of radial hydraulic force in oil recovery by sliding vane pump
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Due to the mechanical structure and operating principle of sliding vane pump (SVP), an all-metal artificial lift equipment with high temperature resistance and high pump efficiency, an unbalanced radial hydraulic force always exists in it during oil recovery, which will cause damage on efficiency, safety and service life of production system. What's more, the flow behavior of fluid through the pump cannot be accurately characterized because current related works fails to capture the influence of the force mentioned. To bridge this knowledge gap, in this paper, the computational fluid dynamics method was introduced and used to analyze the radial hydraulic force under different operating parameters for the first time. On this basis, novel measures to reduce this unbalanced force were put forward, and a design scheme of concentric stator-rotor to completely eliminate the radial hydraulic force was proposed. Main results show that a) increase in eccentricity will contribute to the enhancement of discharge capacity, which will simultaneously aggravate the radial hydraulic force. And this force is proportional to the fluid viscosity, lifting pressure difference and rotation speed, b) The direction of radial hydraulic force of adjacent stages in multistage SVP is opposite. To reduce this unbalanced force, it is recommended to use even-numbered (odd-numbered) multistage pump when the number of total stages is small (large), c) The concentric design eliminates the radial hydraulic force at the expense of the function of self-regulating flow rate. Besides, the stator curve under concentric stator-rotor condition will degrade the kinetic characteristic of vanes.