An artifact for boosting fluids comprising:
- an streamlined cylindrical housing having a first fluid suction and a first fluid discharge, also having a second fluid inlet and a second fluid outlet, the housing further having an internal array of two concentric hollow shafts, an inner hollow shaft and an outer hollow shaft;
- the inner hollow shaft having an end in communication with the second fluid inlet, wherein the second fluid is introduced into the artifact through the inner hollow shaft;
- the inner hollow shaft further having a nozzle at the opposite end of the second fluid inlet;
- wherein the second fluid is accelerated;
- a hyperbolic geometrically shaped expansion chamber located after the inner hollow shaft nozzle, the hyperbolic geometry expansion camber having a prong, the prong being contacted by the second fluid exiting the inner hollow shaft nozzle, wherein the prong split up the second fluid, disseminating uniformly the second fluid in the hyperbolic geometrically shaped expansion chamber, wherein the second fluid portions change direction toward the outer hollow shaft;
- the outer hollow shaft having an end in communication with the hyperbolic geometrically shaped expansion chamber, the outer hollow shaft further having an internal diameter bigger than the external diameter of the inner hollow shaft, wherein a space is created between the inner and the outer hollow shafts, wherein this space forms the second fluid discharge chamber, wherein the second fluid passes from the hyperbolic geometrically shaped expansion chamber to the second fluid discharge chamber;
- wherein the second fluid is discharged before it exits the artifact;
- a rotor assembly comprising two different concentric and coplanar arrays of blades connected each other, one internal and another external, each blade having a foil shape which allows the fluid increase velocity when it is in contact with the blades;
- wherein the internal array of blades is designed to works as a turbine;
- while the external array of blades is designed to works as a pump impeller;
- wherein the pump impeller can be designed to boost single phase or multiphase fluids;
- wherein the internal array of blades and the external array of blades rotate when the second fluid make contact with the internal array of blades;
- wherein the rotation of the external array of blades transmit the energy delivered by the second fluid on the internal array of blades to the first fluid, wherein the first fluid is moved forward;
- wherein the rotor assembly is mounted on the inner and outer hollow shafts;
- wherein the internal array of blades rotate in contact with the inner hollow shaft, while the external array of blades rotate in contact with the outer hollow shaft;
- a flow booster cell assembly comprising the rotor assembly, a diffuser;
- which is a non-rotating cavity whose flow area increases in the direction of flow, located after the external array of blades outlet;
- wherein the first fluid reduces the velocity;
- wherein the reduction of velocity of the first fluid turns into an increase in pressure;
- the cell assembly also comprises a return vane, which is a cavity shaped to guide the first fluid after it left the diffuser, whose flow area increases in the direction of flow;
- the cell assembly being designed to be installed as a single cell or as multiple cells in tandem on the same hollow shafts;
- stators, which are static blade elements foil shaped, used to redirect the second fluid flow when the fluid enters the chamber between the inner and the outer hollow shafts;
- wherein the second fluid reduces its turbulence when passes around the stators before it gets in contact with the internal array of blades;
- a pump hub, which is the hub at the end of the outer hollow shaft, on the back of the hyperbolic geometrically shaped expansion chamber, in the first fluid suction cavity;
- wherein the pump hub has a hydrodynamic shape;
- wherein the first fluid is directed toward the external array of blades when it contacts the pump hub;
- a first fluid discharge chamber, which is a cavity where the first fluid is discharged after it left the cell assembly;
- wherein the first fluid is directed to the first fluid discharge.