Vertical Rotor Research Articles

Numerical Study of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Rotor Configuration

This paper presents a numerical study of a vertical axis wind rotor configuration. Below constant wind condition 8m/s, rotor power performance was investigated over variable turbine configurations. Illustrated by the simulation, increasing rotor cord to radius ratio or blade numbers will enhance the generation of vortexes and flow separation on blades, leading to the significant degradation of turbine performance. It can be conclude form the numerical analysis, a vertical axis wind turbine with high height to radius ratio applied in urban areas experienced better performance when operating in optimal tip speed ratio, with rotor cord to radius ratio between 0.2 and 0.4 and blade number of 3 or 4.

The Particle Motion and Power Theory Analysis of Centrifugal Field

This paper discusses accelerated stress conditions of ore particles in the vertical impact test machine rotor passage through numerical analysis method, and to determine the relationship between the movement of particles and the power and the machine parameters.The results show that:In the test machine rotor, motion law of ore particles is determined, and by expression for the particle displacement, speed and power of the numerical analysis method.If the test machine, gravity effects are negligible;Speed is the main factor affecting the characteristics of particle movement, but should not exclude the influence of particle volume and surface quality;Chasing is never occur in the process of particles;With calculated by the theoretical formula of reasonable size of rotor.

Experimental Verification of a Combi-Bearing Model for Vertical Rotor Systems

Combi-bearing is a combined thrust-journal bearing design used in vertical hydropower rotors. The dynamic characteristics of this component (combi-bearing) were analytically modeled by Luneno et al. (2011, “Model Based Analysis of Coupled Vibrations Due to the Combi-Bearing in Vertical Hydroturbogenerator Rotors,” ASME J. Vib. Acoust., 133, p. 061012). This analytic model was inserted into a finite element model of a vertical rotor rig and numerically simulated. In this paper, the simulated vertical rotor-bearings system is a small-scale vertical machine constructed to validate the analytically derived combi-bearing model. Good agreement was found between the simulation and experimental results. The simulation and experimental results showed that the journal (radial) bearing's position relative to the contact point between the combi-bearing's collar and the rotor influences the rotor system's fundamental natural frequencies. Therefore, the combi-bearing model needs to be included into rotor dynamic models. Neglecting the effect of this component may cause significant errors in the predicted results.

Misalignment in Combi-Bearing: A Cause of Parametric Instability in Vertical Rotor Systems

The dynamic characteristics of the combi-bearing (combined thrust-journal bearing) in vertical rotor systems were analytically modeled and experimentally verified in the authors’ previous publications. An angular misalignment, which may be caused by a possible manufacturing or assembling error, is introduced in the combi-bearing’s rotating collar. A new model of the defective combi-bearing has been derived. The derived model shows that the angular misalignment in the combi-bearing’s rotating collar generates an asymmetry in the rotor system at the combi-bearing’s location. The rotor system’s stiffness in its two translational X and Y directions differ at the combi-bearing’s location. Constant parameters and/or coefficients in rotating asymmetric structures appear to change with time when observed in the stationary frame. These time dependent parameters (coefficients) are the source of the so-called parametric instability in rotating systems. If the collar angular misalignment is located in the X-Z plane all rotor motions in this plane at the contact point between the combi-bearing and the rotor will be coupled. A parametric instability is observed within certain ranges of the rotor speed, depending on the magnitude of the angular misalignment.

Diagnostics of a linear electromagnetic suspension system for a rotor

A flexible vertical rotor on electromagnetic bearings is considered, with a view to selecting an experimental algorithm for determining the limits of the region with no collisions of the rotor and the safety bearings.

Simulation of flexible turbine rotors in the design of safety bearings

Dynamic simulation is employed to investigate the coasting of a vertical rotor when the electromagnetic suspension is switched off and to analyze the subsequent interaction of the rotor with shoe-type slipping safety bearings in dry friction.

Vertical Shaft Impact Crusher Wear Theory Research

Using the impact crusher vertical shaft rotor rotating speed, the vertical shaft impact crusher work the impact of the speed and impact, can improve the crusher of broken ability and production efficiency. The vertical shaft impact crusher the materials in the parts of the impact of the crusher collision effect, can effectively reduce the wear and tear of the machine.

Approaches to experimental validation of high-temperature gas-cooled reactor components

The special feature of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) is stressed operating conditions for equipment due to high temperature of the primary circuit helium, up to 950°C, as well as acoustic and hydrodynamic loads upon the gas path elements. Therefore, great significance is given to reproduction of real operation conditions in tests. Experimental investigation of full-size nuclear power plant (NPP) primary circuit components is not practically feasible because costly test facilities will have to be developed for the power of up to hundreds of megawatts. Under such conditions, the only possible process to validate designs under development is representative tests of smaller scale models and fragmentary models. At the same time, in order to take in to validated account the effect of various physical factors, it is necessary to ensure reproduction of both individual processes and integrated tests incorporating needed integrated investigations. Presented are approaches to experimental validation of thermohydraulic and vibroacoustic characteristics for main equipment components and primary circuit path elements under standard loading conditions, which take account of their operation in the HTGR. Within the framework of the of modular helium reactor project, including a turbo machine in the primary circuit, a new and difficult problem is creation of multiple-bearing flexible vertical rotor. Presented are approaches to analytical and experimental validation of the rotor electromagnetic bearings, catcher bearings, flexible rotor electromagnetic bearings system operability.

Wear of Throwing End of Vertical Shaft Impact Crusher

Statistics show that China currently applied in the vertical shaft impact crusher, the intensity itself is not a major problem affecting the life, the most critical issue is the main material throw head wear . Vertical shaft impact crusher rotor system based on virtual prototyping, combined with the actual working conditions and research objectives, in ADAMS dynamic simulation of the rotor system, a spindle speed at 1600r/min obtained when different materials on the first intermediate principal cast material suffered impact relationships

Vertical rotor for the implementation of control laws

This work presents a new laboratory educational device with which both undergraduates and postgraduates may visualize and test classic control laws and fuzzy logic controllers. A platform can move up and down impelled by a propeller attached to an electric motor. The user chooses the control law and its parameters under which the system is driven. The system is supervised by an uncommon sensoring method: a small camera detects the position of the platform and estimates its speed making use of a simple artificial vision algorithm.

Model Based Analysis of Coupled Vibrations Due to the Combi-Bearing in Vertical Hydroturbogenerator Rotors

The studies presented in this paper focus on analyzing how the combined thrust-journal bearing (commonly called combi-bearing) influences the dynamics of hydropower rotors. Thrust bearing is a component used in vertical rotating machinery and shafts designed to transmit thrust. The total axial load is carried by the single thrust bearing. Any design, manufacture, or assembly error in this component (thrust bearing) would certainly influence the functionality of the entire machine. The analyzed combi-bearing is an existing machine component used in the hydropower unit Porjus U9 situated in northern Sweden. This combi-bearing is a fluid-film lubricated tilting-pad thrust and journal bearings combined together. Only linear fluid-film stiffness was taken into account in the model while fluid-film damping and pads inertia effects were not taken into account. The linearized model shows that the combi-bearing couples the rotor’s lateral and angular motions. However, if the thrust bearing’s pads arrangement is not symmetrical or if all the pads are not angularly equidistant the rotor axial and angular motions are also coupled. This last case of coupling will also occur if the thrust bearing equivalent total stiffness is not evenly distributed over the thrust bearing. A defective pad or unequal hydrodynamic pressure distribution on the pads’ surfaces may be the cause. The Porjus U9’s simulation results show that the combi-bearing influences the dynamic behavior of the machine. The rotor motions’ coupling due to combi-bearing changes the system’s natural frequencies and vibration modes.

FPSO 심정용 수직 해수펌프의 로터다이나믹 과도해석

This paper deals with the detail rotordynamic analysis for the vertical rotor system as development of vertical sea water lift pump for FPSO deep well. In a vertical rotor system, since linearized stiffness and damping coefficients of fluid film bearing are no longer be valid, hence the transient response analysis considering a fluid film force for every journal position in the bearing needs to be required. In this study, the transient response analysis of the proposed vertical pump rotor system was carried out in dry-run and wet-run conditions, respectively. The results show that orbital vibration responses of the rotor system remain stable at rated speed and thereby operating reliability of the vertical rotor system is confirmed. To overcome complexity of calculation pr ocedure and time consuming calculation of transient analysis, the calculating technique of steady-state response analysis is also proposed. The results of steady-state response obtained by applying the proposed technique to the rotor system are good agreement with the reference results, that is, transient responses.

Improving the operational efficiency of a low-power wind system

The development of two new designs for low-power wind systems is considered: one with a horizontal rotor axis and the other with a vertical rotor axis.

An improved spinning lens test to determine the stiffness of the human lens

It is widely accepted that age-related changes in lens stiffness are significant for the development of presbyopia. However, precise details on the relative importance of age-related changes in the stiffness of the lens, in comparison with other potential mechanisms for the development of presbyopia, have not yet been established. One contributing factor to this uncertainty is the paucity and variability of experimental data on lens stiffness. The available published data generally indicate that stiffness varies spatially within the lens and that stiffness parameters tend to increase with age. However, considerable differences exist between these published data sets, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The current paper describes new and improved methods, based on the spinning lens approach pioneered by Fisher, R.F. (1971) ‘The elastic constants of the human lens’, Journal of Physiology, 212, 147–180, to make measurements on the stiffness of the human lens. These new procedures have been developed in an attempt to eliminate, or at least substantially reduce, various systematic errors in Fisher’s original experiment. An improved test rig has been constructed and a new modelling procedure for determining lens stiffness parameters from observations made during the test has been devised. The experiment involves mounting a human lens on a vertical rotor so that the lens spins on its optical axis (typically at 1000 rpm). An automatic imaging system is used to capture the outline of the lens, while it is rotating, at pre-determined angular orientations. These images are used to quantify the deformations developed in the lens as a consequence of the centripetal forces induced by the rotation. Lens stiffness is inferred using axisymmetric finite element inverse analysis in which a nearly-incompressible neo-Hookean constitutive model is used to represent the mechanics of the lens. A numerical optimisation procedure is used to determine the stiffness parameters that provide a best fit between the finite element model and the experimental data. Sample results are presented for a human lens of age 33 years.

Research on the Load Distribution of Throwing Ends in Vertical Shaft Impact Crusher

With ADAMS dynamics software to simulate the stone movement in the vertical shaft impact crusher rotor, the law of an impact frequency and load on the throwing ends with the variation of feed size and rotor speed is studied, the reasons that the middle throwing end is most vulnerable to wear failure and the rotor speed is not as high as possible are explained.

Fast Isolation of Highly Active Photosystem II Core Complexes from Spinach

Purification of photosystem II (PSII) core complexes is a time-consuming and low-efficiency process. In order to isolate pure and active PSII core complexes in large amounts, we have developed a fast method to isolate highly active monomeric and dimeric PSII core complexes from spinach leaves by using sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation. By using a vertical rotor the process was completed significantly faster compared with a swing-out rotor. In order to keep the core complexes in high activity, the whole isolation procedure was performed in the presence of glycine betain and pH at 6.3. The isolated pigment-protein complexes were characterized by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, absorption spectroscopy, 77 K fluorescence spectroscopy and high performance liquid chromatography. Our results show that this method is a better choice for quick and efficient isolation of functionally active PSII core complexes.

Numerical Analysis of Coupled Lateral and Torsional Vibrations of a Vertical Unbalanced Rotor

A model for the coupled lateral and torsional vibrations of a vertical unbalanced rotor is developed. The equation of motion is obtained using Lagrangian dynamics without considering the external actuating forces and torque. The equation showed coupling and nonlinear interaction between the rotor lateral and torsional vibrations. Most of the earlier work on coupled vibrations has been done for the horizontal rotor model. The coupled vibrations for a vertical rotor have not been reported in the past. An attempt is made to reveal dynamic characteristics of vertical rotor. The results of the simulation showed the coupled between torsional and lateral vibrations is induced by mass eccentricity. Coupled vibrations have appeared in the start period of the vibration. After a transient vibration process, the vibrations are not coupling. The lateral vibration becomes equal amplitude with shafting speed. And the torsional vibration keeps on attenuating until it stops. When the vibration is coupled, the coupling effect on which torsional vibration to lateral vibration is evident. But there’s no coupling effect on the lateral to the torsional. It is also shown that for some operational parameters, the controlling action may excite large lateral vibrations due to coupling with the torsional motion.

Assembly of the Fungal SC3 Hydrophobin into Functional Amyloid Fibrils Depends on Its Concentration and Is Promoted by Cell Wall Polysaccharides

Class I hydrophobins function in fungal growth and development by self-assembling at hydrophobic-hydrophilic interfaces into amyloid-like fibrils. SC3 of the mushroom-forming fungus Schizophyllum commune is the best studied class I hydrophobin. This protein spontaneously adopts the amyloid state at the water-air interface. In contrast, SC3 is arrested in an intermediate conformation at the interface between water and a hydrophobic solid such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE; Teflon). This finding prompted us to study conditions that promote assembly of SC3 into amyloid fibrils. Here, we show that SC3 adopts the amyloid state at the water-PTFE interface at high concentration (300 microg ml(-1)) and prolonged incubation (16 h). Moreover, we show that amyloid formation at both the water-air and water-PTFE interfaces is promoted by the cell wall components schizophyllan (beta(1-3),beta(1-6)-glucan) and beta(1-3)-glucan. Hydrophobin concentration and cell wall polysaccharides thus contribute to the role of SC3 in formation of aerial hyphae and in hyphal attachment.

Selecting the design parameters for wind-power systems

Rotor design for wind-power systems is analyzed. The most effective design is based on a vertical rotor axis. The design parameters of a wind-power unit for wind conditions in the Omsk region are selected on the basis of calculation and cost analysis. Recommendations are made regarding the number of wind-power units for a wind-power station.

Oxidized LDL impair adipocyte response to insulin by activating serine/threonine kinases

Oxidized LDL (oxLDL) increase in patients affected by type-2 diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome. Likewise, insulin resistance, an impaired responsiveness of target tissues to insulin, is associated with those pathological conditions. To investigate a possible causal relationship between oxLDL and the onset of insulin resistance, we evaluated the response to insulin of 3T3-L1 adipocytes treated with oxLDL. We observed that oxLDL inhibited glucose uptake (-40%) through reduced glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) recruitment to the plasma membrane (-70%), without affecting GLUT4 gene expression. These findings were associated to the impairment of insulin signaling. Specifically, in oxLDL-treated cells insulin receptor (IR) substrate-1 (IRS-1) was highly degraded likely because of the enhanced Ser(307)phosphorylation. This process was largely mediated by the activation of the inhibitor of kappaB-kinase beta (IKKbeta) and the c-Jun NH(2)-terminal kinase (JNK). Moreover, the activation of IKKbeta positively regulated the nuclear content of nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB), by inactivating the inhibitor of NF-kappaB (IkappaBalpha). The activated NF-kappaB further impaired per se GLUT4 functionality. Specific inhibitors of IKKbeta, JNK, and NF-kappaB restored insulin sensitivity in adipocytes treated with oxLDL. These data provide the first evidence that oxLDL, by activating serine/threonine kinases, impaired adipocyte response to insulin affecting pathways involved in the recruitment of GLUT4 to plasma membranes (PM). This suggests that oxLDL might participate in the development of insulin resistance.