impeller vane
1impeller vane — Any one of the vanes on the impeller of a centrifugal compressor, serving to take in air and accelerate it radially outward. Also called an impeller blade. See impeller (ii) …
2impeller — [1] A rotating member of a centrifugal pump which is equipped with vanes to convert mechanical energy into fluid energy. A rotor or wheel with blades or vanes used in pumps to drive and circulate fluid. Also see volute [2] A fluid coupling or… …
3vane wheel impeller — An impeller with straight radial vanes …
4impeller — noun the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine) • Derivationally related forms: ↑impel • Hypernyms: ↑blade, ↑vane • Part Holonyms: ↑rotor …
5Cheng Rotation Vane CRV — Cheng Rotation Vane The Cheng Rotation Vane CRV® consists of a set of stationary vanes in a cylindrical body which is placed immediately upstream of an elbow or tee in a piping system. It eliminates elbow induced turbulence which negatively… …
6diffuser vane — A turning or cascading vane in a centrifugal flow engine diffuser used to change air direction from radial, as it leaves the impeller, to axial, as it enters the combustors. Diffuser vanes assist in converting velocity into pressure. Double entry …
7wheel impeller — See vane wheel impeller …
8Cavitation — is defined as the phenomenon of formation of vapour bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapour pressure. Cavitation is usually divided into two classes of behavior: inertial (or transient)… …
9pump — pump1 pumpable, adj. pumpless, adj. pumplike, adj. /pump/, n. 1. an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes. 2. Engin., Building Trades. a shore …
10Gas compressor — A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. Compressors are similar to pumps: both increase the pressure on a fluid and both can transport the fluid through a pipe. As gases are… …