Piezo pump

[kontar]

I have to design a fuel pump with a piezoelectric diaphragm.
The capacity is (0.5 - 10) ml/minute.
This is something like a pump in jet printers.
I'm a newbie in this field.
Can you advice me some books or articles?

 

[iainuts]

Hi Kontar, I've seen a lot of questions like yours, people wanting to know where to find papers or resources on specific mechanical designs. There are very few, and something as specialized as a piezoelectric diaphragm pump I'd suspect have virtually no references. The main reason is that development is done by companies and those companies aren't going to publish what they learn about something such as the pump you're needing to design. If they did, any competitor could take that info and make the pump themself. That's not to say there aren't ANY good references to pumps or compressors, but the ones I've seen are fairly general.

If your company is trying to start something new like this, I'd suggest getting some of the more general reference material such as Pump Handbook:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0070340323/002-7138022-2044834?v=glance&n=283155

and learning a little about typical designs and go from there. You have to use basic principals to create any novel design, then make prototypes and test them. Think about what it is you want to know and create tests around that information. It's not easy, but it's not that hard either and it's always a lot of fun!

 

[EdDanzer]

Actually there are several R&D papers about Piezoelectric Pumps. One publication is Journal of Intelligent Systems and Structures, SPIE has some information and this link:

http://aml.seas.ucla.edu