STEADY STATE AND DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF WATER HYDRAULIC PROPORTIONAL CERAMIC SPOOL VALVE
Keywords:
proportional valves, water hydraulics, fluid powerAbstract
Water hydraulics is both old and new technology area. The first fluid power applications were using water as pres-sure medium already in 18th-century, but the modern water hydraulics has been rapidly growing just recently in 1980’s and 1990’s. The main reasons for the comeback are environmental and safety aspects. Water hydraulics offers a signifi-cant alternative to establish motion control systems in environments, where possible oil leakage can cause serious prob-lems.
One of the major tasks to solve in modern water hydraulics is to achieve more accurate control systems than today`s technology provides. The present water hydraulic control valves are not yet at the same technology level as that of oil hydraulics. This means that a lot of effort has to be put to develop better and more accurate valve constructions and on the other hand more intelligent control methods has to be developed to achieve reasonable valve characteristics. This paper concentrates on a study of water hydraulic proportional valves, which are still very new developments in water hydraulics. The steady state and dynamic charateristics of water hydraulic proportional ceramic spool valve is studied both by computer simulation and laboratory tests. Some constructional improvements for the valves are studied and also different control methods are discussed and proposed.
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