DESENVOLVIMENTO DE FERRAMENTAS PARA O AUXÍLIO NAS PRÁTICAS DE BOMBAS DO LABORATÓRIO DE OPERAÇÕES UNITÁRIAS DA UFPB

Abstract

Considering how the transport of fluid from one point to another is of paramount importance to industries, the study of this topic is of great interest to the chemical engineer. A fluid is a substance that deforms with the application of a shear stress, and can be classified as liquid or gas depending on how it behaves in a given volume of control. For the study of pumps, it is very important to understand the energy equation, since the Bernoulli equation is an application of the same given some considerations, having equations that are able to show the performance of a pump from experimental analyzes. In the present work, the development of a computational mathematical tool was used to aid undergraduate students in the practices involving the understanding of centrifugal pumps, and in order to obtain the expected result it was necessary to carry out the experiments in the pump module available in the laboratory of unitary operations of the chemical engineering department of the Federal University of Paraíba. As the main results of the work, the performance curves of the pump were obtained and together the mathematical tool was developed and tested ensuring its use by the future students, so that it helps in the learning and the critical and interpretative development of experimental data.