Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology

The Korean Society of Marine Engineering (한국마린엔지니어링학회)
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Influence on centrifugal force control in a self-driven oil purifier

  • Jung, Ho-Yun (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduated School of Pukyong National University) ;
  • Kwon, Sun-Beom (Interdisciplinary Program of Marine-Bio, Electrical & Mechanical Engineering,Pukyong National University) ;
  • Choi, Yoon-Hwan (Department of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Center for Marine-Integrated Biomedical Technology, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Lee, Yeon-Won (Department of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Center for Marine-Integrated Biomedical Technology, Pukyong National University)
  • Received : 2014.10.30
  • Accepted : 2014.12.10
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

The use of lubrication oil is of many purposes and one among them is to drive the engine mounted on a ship. Hence the supply of clean lubrication oil is important. And an oil purifier is one of key components in marine diesel engines. At present, the element type full-flow oil filter has been widely used for cleaning the engine oil. The self-driven centrifugal oil purifier is a device which is used to remove the impurities in lubrication oil using a jet flow. The flow characteristics and the physical behaviors of particles in this self-driven oil purifier were investigated numerically and the filtration efficiencies were evaluated. For calculations, a Computational Fluid Dynamics method is used and the Shear Stress Transport turbulence model has been adopted. The Multi Frames of Reference method is used to consider the rotating effect of the flows. The influence of centrifugal forcehas been numerically investigatedto improve filtration efficiency of tiny particles. As a result of this research, it was found that the particle filtration efficiency using the only center axis rotating and outer wall rotating system are higher than that of the fully rotating system in the self-driven oil purifier.

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