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Study on the Influence of Toilet Siphon Pipe Shape on Flushing Performance

Main Authors: Ge, Xiaole; College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Huangshan University, Huangshan, Anhui, 245041,, Wang, Hongfeng; College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Huangshan University, Huangshan, Anhui, 245041,, Li, Zhanfu; School of Mechanical & Automobile Engineering, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350118, Liu, Shengrong; College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Huangshan University, Huangshan, Anhui, 245041,, Tong, Xin; School of Mechanical & Automobile Engineering, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350118, Pu, Jiafei; College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Huangshan University, Huangshan, Anhui, 245041,, Dong, Qi; College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Huangshan University, Huangshan, Anhui, 245041,
Other Authors: The Open Research Project of Anhui Simulation Design and Modern Manufacture Engineering Technology Research Center (Huangshan University, NO. SGCZXZD1803), The Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Higher Education Institutions (NO. KJHS2019B15)
Format: Article info application/pdf eJournal
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: Institute for Research and Community Services, Institut Teknologi Bandung , 2020
Subjects:
Mechanical Eng
CFD
flushing performance
shape parameters
siphon pipe
toilet
Online Access: http://journals.itb.ac.id/index.php/jets/article/view/11676
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Daftar Isi:
  • The goal of this work was to explore the influence of toilet siphon pipe shape on flushing performance. The flushing processes of a toilet under different shape parameters were simulated by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with a volume of fluid (VOF) multiphase model. The effects of siphon pipe shape on flushing performance were analyzed in detail. The interpretation of the simulation results was experimentally validated. The results reveal that a toilet may obtain good flushing performance under one single shape parameter when the climbing angle, the arc width, the arc height, the pipe diameter, the climbing width, and the climbing height are about 48°, 45 mm, 210 mm, 50 mm, 90 mm and 30 mm, respectively. With the increase of the siphon pipe diameter, the toilet flushing performance peaks in the range between 50 and 53 mm rather than continuing to improve. In order to reasonably evaluate the flushing effect of the toilet, all flow parameters on a characteristic cross section of the siphon pipe, including the average velocity, the average pressure and the average mass flow rate, should be comprehensively considered instead of one single parameter. The findings of this study provide a reference for the pipe shape design of toilets.

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