Thermal stress and Flow Analysis of a Cryogenic Ball Valve

초저온 볼밸브의 열 응력 및 유동해석

  • 배상규 (한국기계연구원 정보장비연구센터) ;
  • 이원희 (한국기계연구원 정보장비연구센터) ;
  • 김현섭 ((주) 씽크루트) ;
  • 김동수 (한국기계연구원 정보장비연구센터)
  • Published : 2006.12.31

Abstract

The high pressure cryogenic ball valve is used to transfer the liquefied natural gas which temperature is $-196^{\circ}C$, supplied pressure is $168kgf/cm^2$. In the present work, the temperature distribution and thermal deformation is calculated numerically. The CAR and CFD methods are useful to predict the thermal matter and the inner flow field of high pressure cryogenic ball valve. For this reason, to optimum design of the cryogenic ball valve, the theological behavior of the supplied LNG in a cryogenic valve has been studied. The governing equations are discredited and solved numerically by the finite-volume method and finite-element method. In this study, we designed the high pressure cryogenic ball valve that accomplishes zero leakage by elastic seal at normal temperature and metal seal at high temperature.

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