Computational and experimental characterization of a low-cost piezoelectric valveless diaphragm pump
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UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO |
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07/11/2013
07/11/2013
2012
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Flow pumps act as important devices in areas such as Bioengineering, Medicine, and Pharmacy, among other areas of Engineering, mainly for delivering liquids or gases at small-scale and precision flow rate quantities. Principles for pumping fluids based on piezoelectric actuators have been widely studied, since they allow the construction of pump systems for displacement of small fluid volumes with low power consumption. This work studies valveless piezoelectric diaphragm pumps for flow generation, which uses a piezoelectric ceramic (PZT) as actuator to move a membrane (diaphragm) up and down as a piston. The direction of the flow is guaranteed by valveless configuration based on a nozzle-diffuser system that privileges the flow in just one pumping direction. Most research efforts on development of valveless flow pump deal either with computational simulations based on simplified models or with simplified physical approaches based on analytical models. The main objective of this work is the study of a methodology to develop a low-cost valveless piezoelectric diaphragm flow pump using computational simulations, parametric study, prototype manufacturing, and experimental characterization. The parametric study has shown that the eccentricity of PZT layer and metal layer plays a key role in the performance of the pump. FAPESP (Sao Paulo State Foundation Research Agency) FAPESP (Sao Paulo State Foundation Research Agency) [2004/14675-0, 2011/02387-4] CNPq CNPq (National Council for Research and Development) [303689/2009-9, 500991/20090] National Council for Research and Development (CNPq) |
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Journal of Intelligent Material of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, London, v. 23, n. 1, supl., part 3, p. 53-63, Jan, 2012 1045-389X http://www.producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/43014 10.1177/1045389X11429172 |
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eng |
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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD LONDON |
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Journal of Intelligent Material of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures |
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closedAccess Copyright SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD |
Palavras-Chave | #PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR #DIAPHRAGM PUMP #FINITE ELEMENT #CFD #MICROFLUIDICS #DRUG-DELIVERY #LESS PUMP #MICROPUMP #SIMULATION #DESIGN #OPTIMIZATION #PERFORMANCE #MODEL #MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY |
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