Hydraulics 2 Flashcards
Cavitation vs. Aeration
-cavitation is a vapour bubble and aeration is just air
Causes of cavitation
- really anything that causes low pressure
- clogged inlet filters
- pump is mounted too high above the reservoir
- fluid is
Cavitation
- is the violent collapse of entrained vapour bubbles
- gas boils out of fluid when pressure is low enough
- high pressure causes the gas bubbles to implode
Effects of cavitation
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Effects of Areation
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Aeration
- occurs when air becomes mixed with fluid
- air leaks into the system
- air bubbles implode under pressure
Piping
- the smaller the pipe the faster the flow
- remember if you half the size of a pipe the area becomes 1/4 of the original area.
- recommended flow inside a circuit/piping is 7/20 feet per second
Causes of Aeration
- not as violent as cavitation
- leak in the inlet
- fluid level too low in tank
Boiling water
- raising the temperature
- lowering he pressure
Bernoulli’s Principle
- only applies when something is moving. Pascals is used when something is not moving.
- for a constant flow rate, as velocity of a fluid increases, the pressure decreases. Conversely, if the pressure increases, the velocity of fluid decreases.
Why does Bernoulli’s works
-the law of conversation of energy.
-if velocity increases, speed energy increases
-to balance energies, energy must be lost.
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Energy
-capacity to do work
Work
- a function of applying a force over a distance
- applying a force with no movement, no work is being done
Power
- the rate at which work is done, it is a ratio of work done over an amount of time
- do work faster=more power
- do work slower=less power
Horsepower
- hp=gpm X psi X .0007
- each horsepower that is not converting into mechanical energy is converted to heat.
Efficiency
- tells how well something is working
- efficiently = what you put in divided by what you get out.
Power efficiency
- how much power is obtained from the actuator compared to the power you put into the system through prime mover.
- expressed in a percentage and is arrived at by dividing the output horsepower by the input horsepower multiplied by 100
Volumetric Efficiency
- how much fluid an actuator discharges in comparison to the amount of fluid intake.
- this will change with the pressure and speed the pump is operating at.
Open circuit
- most widely used in industry
- return line does not connect directly to the pump inlet
- uses a reservoir
Reservoir
- hold 3x rated pump outlet
- cool the oil
- de area tea the oil
Closed Loops
- widely used in mobile equipment
- return line connects directly to pump
- small reservoir (3/4 the capacity of charge pump
- compact unit
Charge pump
-returns fluid from the case drain back to the main pump inlet
Hydrostatic drive
-use a charge pump attached to the main pump
Closed loop vs. Open loop
-no DCV’
-closed loop has no cavitation
-closed has cooling issues
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Case drain
- leaking oil that gets put back into system
- provides flow to reservoir for fluid that flows by piston seals.
- without pressure case drain pressure would continue to build and blow out case or shaft seals
- if case were pressurized, pressure behind piston ball would counteract extension/retraction.
Basic Circuit
Electrical energy to mechanical energy to hydrodynamic energy (energy transfer) to mechanical energy
Hydrodynamic energy
-the study of fluids in motion
Fluid
- transmits power from input to output
- oil better lubricator, better seal, better for heat control, compressibility versatility
Filters
-inlet filters protects pump, coarse (removes large particles), min inlet restrictions
Max pressure relief valve
- provides overload protection
- diverts excess flow to reservoir
- sets max system pressure
Valves control
- direction to the fluid
- flow
- speed