Assessment of pipeline network leakage influence on dynamic characteristics of the pump complex

It is demonstrated that pump complexes pipeline networks are characterized by a high degree of breakdown rate because of leakages accompanied by complicated wave processes in the hydrosystem. It is found out that pipeline network wave processes depend on localization place and amount of the leakage, hydronetwork structural parameters as well as the properties of the transported liquid. Leakage influence on technological, electromechanical and energy characteristics of the pump complex is determined. It is stated that to identify the leakage it is expedient to use a signal of hydraulic power, whose frequency analysis makes it possible to obtain a wider spectrum of diagnostic signs of non-stationary condition. It is shown that leakage is accompanied by growth of hydraulic power variable component, in particular, its sine component.