The Effect of Sedimentation to The Pump Sump System by using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Model

Norsyazliana Syamira Saiful Anuar; Siti Hidayah Abu Talib alif; Nur Fatin Izureen Radzaly; Syarifah Intan Najla Syed Hashim; Muhammad Salleh Abustan

Authors

Norsyazliana Syamira Saiful Anuar Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
Siti Hidayah Abu Talib alif Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
Nur Fatin Izureen Radzaly Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
Syarifah Intan Najla Syed Hashim Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
Muhammad Salleh Abustan Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

Keywords:

Sedimentation, pump sump, CFD

Abstract

Sedimentation is the one of the major problems in the operational of pump sump system. Therefore, study is conducted to determine the efficiency of pump sump due to sedimentation using ANSYS Fluent. Model simulation is conducted using different size of sediment and different water flow velocity to observed how it will effect on pump sump. The CFD model are well computed the sediment deposition in pump sump. Percentage of particle accumulate increased with increased of particle size but at lower velocity. While for sediment deposition area, most of the particle will be deposited at the inlet of the pump sump especially for larger particle.