Visualization of cavitation and investigation of cavitation erosion in a valve

Avoiding cavitation and especially cavitation erosion are tasks, which have to be considered when working with hydraulics. State of the art is the assessment of the risk of erosion by component testing or to completely avoid cavitation by means of CFD. Another reliable method to assess the risk of cavitation erosion is until now not available. This paper deals with this problem and delivers comparative values for a later method development. In a first step the cavitation of a poppet valve, which controls a methanol flow, is visualized. The resulting three cavitation appearances are deeply examined. After that the results of long-term tests at different operation conditions are presented. A poppet surface analysis following each experiment has shown different types of surface attacks. As a result of this work it is shown that both cavitation appearance and surface attack are strongly influenced by the temperature dependent air solubility of the liquid.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:29314
Date January 2016
CreatorsKrahl, Dominik, Weber, Jürgen, Fuchs, Maik
ContributorsDresdner Verein zur Förderung der Fluidtechnik e. V.
PublisherTechnische Universität Dresden
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text
Source10th International Fluid Power Conference (10. IFK) March 8 - 10, 2016, Vol. 1, pp. 333-348
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationurn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-196933, qucosa:29237

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