Centrifugal pump impeller runs at 950 rpm. Its external and internal diameters are 500 mm and 250 mm. The vanes are set back at an angle of 35° to the outer rim. If the radial velocity of water through the impeller be maintained constant as 2 m/sec, find the angle of the vanes at inlet, the velocity and direction of water at outlet and the work done by the impeller per kg of water

Centrifugal pump impeller runs at 950 rpm. Its external and internal diameters are 500 mm and 250 mm. The vanes are set back at an angle of 35° to the outer rim. If the radial velocity of water through the impeller be maintained constant as 2 m/sec, find the angle of the vanes at inlet, the velocity and direction of water at outlet and the work done by the impeller per kg of water

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