Study on Automatic Measurement of Valve Orifice Characteristic Based on Pneumatic Flow Method

Abstract:

Spool valve orifice flow characteristic of servo valve plays an important role in the spool valve overlap measurement and manufacturing quality analysis of servo valve. The liner segment of flow characteristic curve could be used to calculate the overlap, and the non-linear segment could be used to evaluate the manufacturing quality of servo valve. This paper analyzed the valve orifice characteristic measurement based on the pneumatic flow method in detail, developed an automatic pneumatic measurement apparatus for valve orifice characteristic and spool valve overlap based on the thermal mass flow sensor AWM2300, verified the measurement accuracy and non-repeated error of this apparatus, and adopted the overlap as investigated object to contrast the measurement results by pneumatic flow method with by pneumatic pressure method. The non-repeated error of overlap measurement by pneumatic flow method did not exceed ±0.5(m, and the experimental results indicated that the automatic pneumatic flow measurement can excellently satisfy the actual requirement in the production of servo valve.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 392-394)
• Pages: 240-244
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.392-394.240
• Online since: October 2008
• Authors: J. Liu, Guang Lin Wang, N. Xu
• Keywords: Flow Sensor, Pneumatic Measurement, Spool Valve, Valve Orifice Characteristic

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