Performance Analysis of a Pressurized Assembly with a Reinforced O-ring

Authors

  • El Mehdi El Bahloul Industrial Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Beni Mellal, Morocco
  • Hicham Aissaoui Sustainable development Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Beni Mellal, Morocco
  • Mohammed Diany Industrial Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Beni Mellal, Morocco
  • Elhassan Boudaia Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Beni Mellal, Morocco
  • Mustapha Mabrouki Industrial Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Beni Mellal, Morocco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/ijfp1439-9776.2441

Keywords:

O-ring, Reinforced O-ring, Finite element model, Contact pressure, fluid pressure

Abstract

In industrial facilities, leaks from manufacturing equipment represent uncontrolled fugitive emissions. The most critical components in this equipment are the seals. Several types of seals are used and the most popular are flat seals and O-rings. These seals are subject to high clamping loads and pressures. The failure of the seals could seriously affect the safety of people, and also the environment by the leakage of toxic products.

In this work, the analysis of the mechanical and leakage behavior of the O-ring seal reinforced by a metal core and a conventional one when placed either between two plates or in a rectangular groove is presented.

Four finite element models, developed using Ansys software, are used to study the behavior of the assemblies in the four cases when clamping load and fluid pressure are applied.

This study shows that the introduction of a metal core inside an elastomer O-ring improves the sealing in pressurized installations. The comparison between the assembly without and with a groove shows that the installation of the two studied seals in a groove can protect them against the high stresses which can cause their deterioration and thus increase the probability of failure.

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Author Biographies

El Mehdi El Bahloul, Industrial Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Beni Mellal, Morocco

El Mehdi El Bahloul is currently a Ph.D. student in the Industrial Engineering Laboratory at Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Faculty of Sciences and Technology in Beni Mellal, Morocco. He is also a High school teacher of Engineering and mechanical sciences at Tighnari Technical High School. He received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Higher Normal School of Technical Education, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. His main field of research is mechanical engineering, structural mechanics and material sciences.

Hicham Aissaoui, Sustainable development Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Beni Mellal, Morocco

Hicham Aissaoui is a Professor in the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies in Electrical Engineering department at the University of Sultan Moulay Slimane, where he has been a faculty member since 1996. He completed his Ph.D. at University Mohamed V and got his Habilitation at the University of Sultan Moulay Slimane. His research interests stability analysis and non-linear control. He had collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of signal and image analysis, particularly medical images on problems at tumor diagnostics.

Mohammed Diany, Industrial Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Beni Mellal, Morocco

Mohammed Diany Ph.D. is a Professor at Mechanical Engineering Department, University Sultan Moulay Slimane, Faculty of Sciences and Technics, Beni Mellal, Morocco. His Ph.D. thesis in 2010 was on the subject of Characterization and Modelling of Stuffing Box Packings and completed at École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada. His researches are focused on Mechanical Engineering, Structural Mechanics, and Material Sciences.

Elhassan Boudaia, Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Beni Mellal, Morocco

Elhassan Boudaia is an associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Higher School of Technology of Casablanca, Morocco. His Ph.D. thesis in 2007 was on the subject of a meshless and finite element methods analysis for elastoplastic contact problems with friction. His current research activities are multidisciplinary and focus mainly on design approaches and reliability analysis, especially in structural engineering. Using the elastoplastic analysis and the meshless or the finite element method, he has published with his co-workers’ many works on the reliability assessment of structures, especially in the non-associated elastoplastic area.

Mustapha Mabrouki, Industrial Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Beni Mellal, Morocco

Mustapha Mabrouki currently works at the Physics Department (Full professor), University Sultan Moulay Slimane, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Beni Mellal, Morocco. Mustapha does research in Smart grids and smart cities (optimization models for balancing energy), Photovoltaic Materials Synthesis and Integration, Phosphates and derivatives, Biotechnology and Microbiology. My current projects are 1-‘PROPRE.MA’. Build photovoltaic yield maps of grid connected mono, poly and amorphous PV modules for all Morocco with land calibration on 20 identical plants. 2-AFM project 3-Phosphate project 4-Solar Decathlon Africa2019 competition.

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Published

2023-11-07

How to Cite

Bahloul, E. M. E. ., Aissaoui, H. ., Diany, M. ., Boudaia, E. ., & Mabrouki, M. . (2023). Performance Analysis of a Pressurized Assembly with a Reinforced O-ring. International Journal of Fluid Power, 24(04), 625–642. https://doi.org/10.13052/ijfp1439-9776.2441

Issue

2023: Vol 24 Iss 4

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Original Article

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