Design Of Hydraulic Valve Research Articles

Investigation of Operating Regimes of Shut-off Hydrovalve with Electrohydraulic-powered Drive

The paper suggests the design of the locking truck hydraulic valve with electro-hydraulic drive and braking, which eliminates the disadvantages of the known designs hydraulic valves. A mathematical model for the study of operating modes of the proposed design of hydraulic valve. As a result of research modes of pressure hydraulic valve is installed, it has a high-speed operation. The proposed design of the shut-off tractor hydraulic valve allows you to quickly make adjustment of the time of its operation during operation using the throttle is part of the hydraulic valve.

Steady Hydrodynamic Force Analysis of Non-Circular Opening Hydraulic Spool Valve

Hydrodynamic force is one of the important factors to be considered in the design of hydraulic valves. In this paper, mathematical formula of steady hydrodynamic force was deduced basing on non-circular opening spool valve structure and working principle. The simulations were carried out with software FLUENT at differential pressure, different valve port openings, and then the variation of the steady hydrodynamic force can be obtained. The results show that the direction of the steady hydrodynamic force is opposite to the movement of the valve spool and tends to close the valve port; the magnitude of the steady hydrodynamic force is proportional to the valve opening and differential pressure respectively.

CFD analysis of a hydraulic valve for cavitating flow

AbstractA successful design of high pressure hydraulic valves requires a thorough analysis of both velocity and pressure fields, with the aim of improving the geometry to avoid cavitation. Cavitation behavior prediction of hydraulic valves and its associated performance drop is of high interest for the manufacturers and for the users. The paper presents a CFD analysis of the flow inside a high pressure hydraulic valve. First, the analysis was carried out without using cavitation model (single phase). It was observed that absolute pressure was going below the vapor pressure. Hence, it was required to turn on the cavitation model. This model enables formation of vapor from liquid when the pressure drops below the vaporization pressure. Since the cavitation bubble grows in a liquid at low temperature, the latent heat of evaporation can be neglected and the system can be considered isothermal. Under these conditions the pressure inside the bubble remains practically constant and the growth of the bubble radius can be approximated by the simplified Rayleigh equation. For typical poppet valve geometry, ½ of computational domain is assumed, with pressure inlet and outlet boundary conditions, and a steady flow solution is computed. Because of the highly complex geometry of the hydraulic valve, the computational domain was meshed using unstructured grids using tetrahedral cells only. The paper presents a numerical investigation of the flow inside a hydraulic valve using commercial CFD code CFD-ACE. The aim of the study is to provide a good basis for future designing of the hydraulic valve. The result indicated the cavitation zones which in turn suggest needs of modification of present geometry.