The study of the phenomenon of cavitation of centrifugal pumps remains of a great
importance in the field of construction as well as in the field of installation of pumps
in pumping stations. In fact, with the consequences it engenders: noise, vibration,
erosion and loss of efficiency, it provokes, on the one hand, a progressive degradation of
the performance of the machine and, on the other hand, an increase in the costs of the
maintenance of installation (a compromise between the functioning period and cost of
exploitation), in addition to the loss of efficiency of pumps and the resistance of
different materials to the effects of the phenomenon of cavitation. Among the techniques
and methods of protecting the parts of pumps is the cladding of the parts with composite
plastic materials for the purpose of increasing the resistibility and protecting the parts
from the effects of cavitation. Relevant to this, our work aims at analysing this problem
with the intention of preserving the efficiency of a pump by limiting the effects of
cavitation through an experimental study that has been realized in a laboratory. As such,
wheels of different materials are tested under conditions of cavitation taking into
consideration the three types of metals used in the manufacture of the wheel, and this
regarding the study of resistibility of each material subject to the effects of the
phenomenon aforementioned. Thus, this present work consists in experimentally studying the
physical impact of cavitational erosion upon the hydrodynamic behavior and the
performances of centrifugal pumps, and that affects the weight of different wheels. This
phenomenon can be obtained only through measurement: loss of efficiency that can have
repercussions for the characteristics of functioning as well as the mechanical behavior.