Application of a Cleaning System Made up of a Centrifugal Fan with Double Channel and One Sieve to Combine

In this paper the application of a cleaning system which was made up of a centrifugal fan with double channel and one sieve to 4LZ-3.5 combine was introduced. This cleaning system with double channel compared with the traditional air-sieve cleaning system of combines may omit one two sieves and simplify the transmission mechanism. It is also compared with the present cleaning system with double channel applied to some combines, such as the Commandor 112CS/ 228CS combines of Claas Corporation in Germany and the MAXIMIZERTMombincs of John Deerc company in U.S.A. It may omit one sieve and the preclcaner and simlify the transmission mechanism. The measuring results indicated that the cleaning ratio of wheat grain is 99.1% and the cleaning loss ratio of wheat is 0.17% when the feed rate is 4.01 kg/ s.

Investigation on Inlet Recirculation Characteristics of Double Suction Centrifugal Compressor with Unsymmetrical Inlet

The inlet recirculation characteristics of double suction centrifugal compressor with unsymmetrical inlet structures were studied in numerical method,mainly focused on three issues including the amounts and differences of the inlet recirculation in different working conditions,the circumferential non-uniform distributions of the inlet recirculation,the recirculation velocity distributions of the upstream slot of the rear impeller.The results show that there are some differences between the recirculation of the front impeller and that of the rear impeller in whole working conditions..In design speed,the recirculation flow rate of the rear impeller is larger than that of the front impeller in the large flow range,but in the small flow range,the recirculation flow rate of the rear impeller is smaller than that of the front impeller.In different working conditions,the recirculation velocity distributions of the front and rear impeller are non-uniform along the circumferential direction and their non-uniform extents are quite different.The circumferential non-uniform extent of the recirculation velocity varies with the working conditions change.The circumferential non-uniform extent of the recirculation velocity of front impeller and its distribution are determined by the static pressure distribution of the front impeller,but that of the rear impeller is decided by the coupling effects of the inlet flow distortion of the rear impeller,the circumferential unsymmetrical distribution of the upstream slot and the asymmetric structure of the volute.In the design flow and small flow conditions,the recirculation velocities at different circumferential positions of the mean line of the upstream slot cross-section of the rear impeller are quite different,and the recirculation velocities distribution forms at both sides of the mean line are different.The recirculation velocity distributions in the cross-section of the upstream slot depend on the static pressure distributions in the intake duct.