1. Concept Level Project Plan P08453 – Turbomachinery Flow Visualization
Allen Luccitti (ME)

2. Concept Level Project Plan
Project Name
Turbomachinery Flow Visualization
Project Number
P08453
Project Family
Sustainable Technologies for the Global Marketplace
Track
Sustainable Products, Systems and Technologies
Start Term
planned academic quarter for MSD1
End Term
planned academic quarter for MSD2
Faculty Guide
Dr. Steven Day (ME) confirmed
Faculty Consultant
Dr. Ali Ogut (ME) My choice
Dr. First Last (EE) Indicate whether this is your choice, or confirmed
Primary Customer
Dresser-Rand, confirmed

3. Phase 0: Planning Mission Statement
Product Description
The test system will consist of a centrifugal pump that sits within an automated and instrumented flow loop. The flow loop will have a controlled variable resistance and pump rotational speed, and will monitor the pressure rise and flow rate of the pump. The system will be controlled and monitored through a LabView based program and user interface. The apparatus and pump housing will be fabricated from optically clear materials to allow flow visualization within the pump, including dye injection experiments and particle based methods such as Laser Doppler Velocimetry and particle Image Velocimetry. The apparatus will be designed and built with a modular construction so that design variations of impellers, volutes, and housings may be easily exchanged.
Key Business Goals
Develop an experimental apparatus that can be used to expose students to fundamentals of turbo machinery.
May be used in future sections turbo machinery and fluid mechanics coursed
May be used as a basis for graduate student research
Primary Market
The primary market will be engineering students at RIT, along with RIT faculty
Secondary Market
The secondary market will be Dresser-Rand
Stakeholders
RIT engineering students
RIT faculty
Dresser-Rand
High school students (future RIT students)

4. Phase 0: Planning Staffing Requirements
Mechanical Engineers
(4)
The persons should have knowledge of Fluid Mechanics, Machine Design, Vibrations Analysis, Materials science, ANSYS,3D solid modeling, CAD,. Tasks will include but not limited to, sensor selection, reverse engineering, machining of parts, material selection, analysis of various components.
Electrical Engineers
(2)
The persons should have knowledge of circuit design, data acquisition, LabView, signals processing. Tasks will include but not limited to , creating a Graphical User Interface(GUI), sensor selection, signal conditioning, hardware control.
Industrial and Systems Engineers
None
Computer Engineers
Business Majors

5. Phase 0: Planning Resource Requirements
People
Dr. Steven Day (ME)
Dave Hathaway
Jay Koch (Dresser-Rand)
EE Faculty consultant
Environment
Machine Shop, CIMS, Brinkman Lab or outside CNC shop.
Equipment
Any specialty tools required for pump disassembly, Laser scanner at CIMS
Materials
Centrifugal Pump (Dresser-Rand)TBD, Computer w/LabView,

6. Phase 1: Concept Development Identify Customer Needs - Interviews
Primary Customer(s)
The primary customer is Dresser-Rand, a call has been put in to the primary contact, Jay Koch.
Other Stakeholder(s)
I have interviewed Dr. Steven Day (ME) via .
Past Senior Design Team(s)
No Senior Design projects have been found relating to similar projects.

7. Phase 1: Concept Development Identify Customer Needs - Benchmarking
Competitive or Cooperative Solutions
Potential tear down of a similar pump core or scrap from Dresser-Rand
Internet Search
Google, Wikipedia, McMaster Carr, MSC, Grainger
Technical Literature Search
Flow Visualization Using Liquid Crystal Thermography and Particle Image Velocimetry

8. Phase 1: Concept Development Identify Customer Needs - Interpret
Needs Statements:
Demonstrate flow charachtieristics in turbomachinery
Easily interchangable parts
Optically transparent housing
Graphical Interpretationdata collected
TBD
Organize the Needs into a Hierarchy
Establish the Relative Importance of the Needs
Reflect on the Results and the Process

9. Centrifugal Compressor

10. Future Plan Where do you go from here?
Follow up with primary contact at Dresser-Rand
Research existing technology that satisfies similar needs
Refines needs and objective tree
Refine staffing requirements