US Patent Issued to Flowserve on Dec. 30 for "VCT pump impeller having monotonically decreasing head with increasing flow rate" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,093, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Flowserve Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"VCT pump impeller having monotonically decreasing head with increasing flow rate" was invented by Azfar Ali (Macungie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shroudless vertical turbine pump (VTC) impeller and method of design thereof minimizes or eliminates discharge recirculation on the shroud sides of the impeller blades, thereby providing a monotonically decreasing head as a function of flow rate from zero flow to a flow rate that is beyond a best efficiency point (BEP) flow rate, and in embodiments beyond 120% of the BEP. Each blade of the impeller has S-sha...