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Effect of cone angle on the hydraulic characteristics of globe control valve

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Globe control valve is widely used in chemical, petroleum and hydraulic industries, and its throttling feature is achieved by the adopting of valve plug. However, very limited information is available in literature regarding the influence of valve plug on the internal and external features in globe control valves. Thus the effect of valve plug is studied by CFD and experiment in this paper. It is obtained from external features that the pressure drop between upstream and downstream pressure-sampling position increases exponentially with flow rate. And for small valve opening, the increment of pressure drop decreases with the increase of cone angle (β). However, with the increase of valve opening, the effect of cone angle diminishes significantly. It is also found that the cone angle has little effect on flow coefficient (C v) when the valve opening is larger than 70%. But for the cases less than 70%, C v curve varies from an arc to a straight line. The variation of valve performance is caused by the change of internal flow. The results of internal flow show that cone angle has negligible effect on flow properties for the cases of valve opening larger than 70%. However, when valve opening is smaller than 70%, the pressure drop of orifice decreases with the increase of β, making the reduction in value and scope of the high speed zone around the conical surface of valve plug, and then results in a decreasing intensity of adjacent downstream vortex. Meanwhile, it is concluded from the results that the increase of cone angle will be beneficial for the anti-cavitation and anti-erosion of globe control valve. This paper focuses on the internal and external features of globe control valve that caused by the variation of cone angle, arriving at some results beneficial for the design and usage of globe control valve.

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    Zhe Lin, Huijie Wang, Zhaohui Shang, Baoling Cui & Zuchao Zhu

  2. Zhejiang Windey Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, 310012, China

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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51406184, 21276241), and Science Foundation of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University of China (Grant No. 14022005-Y)

LIN Zhe, born in 1987, is currently a lecturer at Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Fluid Transmission Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China. He received his PhD degree on mechatronics from Zhejiang University, China, in 2013. His research interests include fluid engineering and mechatronic engineering.

WANG Huijie, born in 1991, is currently a ME candidate at Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Fluid Transmission Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China. His research interests include fluid engineering and valves.

SHANG Zhaohui, born in 1986, is currently a junior engineer. He received his ME degree on mechatronics from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China, in 2013. His research interests include fluid engineering and valves.

CUI Baoling, born in 1975, is currently a professor at Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Fluid Transmission Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China. She received her PhD degree from Zhejiang University, China, in 2006. Her research interests include fluid engineering and mechatronic engineering.

ZHU Chongxi, born in 1984, is currently a technical support engineer at Zhejiang Windey Co., Ltd., China. He received his bachelor degree on automation from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China, in 2007. His research interests include fluid engineering.

ZHU Zuchao, born in 1966, is currently a professor at Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Fluid Transmission Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China. He received his PhD degree from Zhejiang University, China, in 1997. His research interests include fluid engineering and mechatronic engineering.

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Lin, Z., Wang, H., Shang, Z. et al. Effect of cone angle on the hydraulic characteristics of globe control valve. Chin. J. Mech. Eng. 28, 641–648 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3901/CJME.2015.0313.030

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