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Design and Evaluation of a Crankcase Relief Valve Spring for LNG-Fueled Ships (LNG 연료추진 선박용 크랭크실 릴리프 밸브 스프링의 설계 및 평가)

  • Lee, Hyo Ryeol;Ahn, Jung Hwan;Ahn, Byoung Hoon;Kim, Hwa Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.263-269
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    • 2015
  • Growing concerns regarding air pollution have recently increased the demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueled ships. LNG-fueled ships are equipped with an explosion relief valve in the crankcase to relieve excessive pressure and stop flames from emitting from the crankcase. In this study, a finite element analysis was conducted to evaluate the crankcase relief valve disk spring design using an ANSYS Workbench, v.15. The setting pressure, leak and explosion test performed by european standard EN14797 to evaluate function and mechanical integrity of crankcase relief valve. The tests results indicate that the pressure of the crankcase relief valve is 3.05 bar, with no air leakage at 2.97 bar. Finally, the mechanical integrity of the crankcase relief valve was confirmed through an explosion test in which the valve plate assembly, flame arrester, and other parts were safe from fracturing.

A numerical analysis for internal fluid flow of a PCV valve by using moving mesh (Moving Mesh를 이용한 PCV 밸브의 내부유동 수치해석)

  • Lee, J.H.;Choi, Y.H.;Lee, Y.W.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.40-44
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    • 2005
  • A great deal of exhaust gas inside a combustion room goes out through exhaust pipe but residual gas, is called "Blowby gas", enters the crankcase through a small gap between the piston and the cylinder wall. Here, if the crankcase isn't vented, this causes many bad effects such as lubricant oil contamination, corrosion by that and crankcase explosion by rising pressure. So, most automobiles are constituted with a PCV (Positive Crankcase Ventilation) system to prevent previous problems. PCV valve is the most important part in this ventilation system. When companies are manufacturing new engines, engineers are designing it depending on their experiments than theoretical knowledge. Mush efforts and times are needed for new development. This study will show quantitative results to increase the possibilities of reduction of developing time.

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A numerical analysis for internal fluid flow of a PCV valve by using moving mesh (Moving Mesh를 이용한 PCV 밸브의 내부유동 수치 해석)

  • Lee J. H,;Li L.;Kim Y. G.;Choi Y. H.;Lee Y. W.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2004
  • A great deal of exhaust gas inside a combustion room goes out through exhaust pipe but residual gas, is called 'Blow by gas', enters the crankcase through a small gap between the piston and the cylinder wall. Here, if the crankcase isn't vented, this causes many bad effects such as lubricant oil contamination, corrosion by that and crankcase explosion by rising pressure. So most automobiles are constituted with a PCV(Positive Crankcase Ventilation) system to prevent previous problems. PCV valve is the most important part in this ventilation system. When companies are manufacturing new cases, engineers are designing it depending on their experiments than theoretical knowledges. Much efforts and times are needed for new development. This study will show quantitative results to increase the possibilities.

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A STUDY ON INTERNAL FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF PCV VALVE ACCORDING TO SPOOL DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR (PCV 밸브의 스풀 동적거동에 따른 내부유동 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee J.H.;Lee Y.W.;Kim J.H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.223-227
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    • 2005
  • A PCV valve is a part to control the flow rate of Blowby gas in a PCV system. A PCV system re-burns Blowby gas with fuel in a combustion chamber. Some gas enters to a crankcase room through the gap between piston ring and engine cylinder wall. This gas si called 'Blowby gas'. This gas causes many problems. In environmental view, Blowby gas includes about $25\~35\%$ hydrocarbon{HC) of total generated HC in an automobile. Hydrocarbon is a very harmful pollutant element in our life. In mechanical view, Blowby gas has some reaction with lubricant oil of crankcase room. Then, this causes lubricant oil contamination, crankcase corrosion and a decrease fo engine efficiency. Consequently, Blowby gas must be eliminated from a crankcase room. In this study, we simulated internal flow characteristics in a PCV valve according to spool dynamic behavior using local remeshing method And, we programmed our sub routine to simulate a spool dynamic motion. As results, spool dynamic behavior is periodically oscillated by the relationship between fluid force and elastic force of spring. And its magnitude is linearly increased by the differential pressure between inlet and outlet. Also, as spool is largely moved, flow area is suddenly decreased at orifice. For this reason, flow velocity is rapidly decreased by viscous effect.

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CFD Analysis and Explosion Test of a Crankcase Relief Valve Flame Arrester for LNG-fuelled Ships (LNG 연료 추진 선박용 크랭크실 릴리프 밸브 화염방지기의 유동해석 및 폭발시험)

  • Lee, Hyo Ryeol;Ahn, Jung Hwan;Kim, Dong Keon;Ahn, Byoung Hoon;Kim, Hwa Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.171-176
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    • 2016
  • Growing concerns about air pollution have led to increased demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fuelled ships that have crankcases equipped with explosion relief valves to relieve excessive crankcase pressures and stop the flames emitted from the crankcase. The results of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based feasibility analysis of the crankcase relief valve flame arrester design conducted using ANSYS CFX V14 showed that the inlet and outlet relief valve temperatures differed by $350-700^{\circ}C$. An explosion test was performed based on European standard EN14797 to evaluate the flame transmission and mechanical integrity of the valve. No flame transmission from the pressure vessel to the exterior was detected, and the mechanical integrity of the valve was confirmed. Thus, the relief valve components were found to be safe from the viewpoint of fracture.

Computational Analysis of Flow Characteristics of a PCV Valve (PCV(Positive Crankcase Ventilation) 밸브의 유동특성에 관한 수치해석)

  • Lee Jong Hoon;Choi Yoon Hwan;Lee Yeon Won
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.66-73
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    • 2005
  • A great deal of exhaust gas inside a combustion room goes out through exhaust pipe. But residual gas 'Blowby gas' enters the crankcase through a small gap between the piston and the cylinder wall. Here, if the blowby gas isn't vented, this causes many bad efffcts such as lubricant oil contamination, corrosion by that and crankcase explosion by rising pressure. So most automobiles are constituted with a PCV(Positive Crankcase Ventilation) system to prevent previous problems. PCV valve is the most important part in this ventilation system. When companies are manufacturing new cases, engineers are designing it depending on their experiments than theoretical knowledges. Much efforts and times are needed for new development. This study will show quantitative results to increase the possibilities for the optimal design.

The Effect of In-Outlet Differential Pressure on a Valve Body Stress and Deformation by the Blow-by Gas Flow Characteristic in the PCV valve for Automobile (자동차용 PCV밸브내 유통특성에 의한 밸브응력 및 변형에 미치는 입출구 차압의 영향)

  • Kwon Oh-Heon;Lee Yeon-Won;Song Sang-Min;Lee Jong-Hoon;Kang Ji-Woong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.20 no.1 s.69
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    • pp.36-41
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    • 2005
  • PCV(Positive Crankcase Ventilation) valve acts as a flow control valve to get a re-combustion of blow-by gas by having it flow from a crankcase to an inlet manifold suction tube. The blow-by gas of the crankcase should be eliminated or taken properly because it cause corrosion to critical parts, and contributes to increase crankcase pressure that can cause a drop in efficiency. The excessive stress and strain on the PCV valve that remove these harmful gas would be bring the difficult on the flow rate control and failure of the valve. Those condition inevitably induce the accident. Therefore, this study purpose is FEM evaluation of the stresses and deformation in the X3 PCV model according to the change of the differential pressure between inlet and outlet. From results, the maximum equivalent stresses increased linearly according to the increase of the differential pressure at the about 50mm from the inlet position and were under the yield strength of the valve. And the deformations were relatively small regardless of the in-outlet differential pressure variation.

A Study on Oil Separation Performance of Crank-Case Ventilation System (크랭크실 환기장치의 오일 분리효율에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Joon-Ho;Na, Byung-Chul;Kim, Jin-Yong;Park, Seung-Uk;Lim, Dae-Soon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.144-150
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    • 2008
  • This research aims to develop parts for advanced fuel/oil filtering re-circulation applicable to this kind of regulation proof engines. These parts can playa role of converting traditional air emission type crankcase into recovery type crankcase so that the engine can deal with environmental regulations, which do not allow minimal amount of toxic gas discharge. For the experiment, test method and specially made testing equipment are prepared. The results showed that oil separation efficiency of the cone type CCV(Crank Case Ventilation) system was higher than one of cylinder type both in bench test and in engine.

Study on the Possibility of Recycling Crankcase Soot from Diesel Engine (디젤 엔진에서 생성된 크랭크케이스 수트의 재활용 가능성 연구)

  • Kim, Soo-yang;Choi, Jae-Hyuk;Rho, Bum-Seok;Kim, Junsoo;Kang, Jun;Lee, Won-Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.179-186
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    • 2021
  • In this study, we attempted to comparatively analyze the structural characteristics of soot generated from marine engines to review the possibility of recycling crankcase soot by classifying it as exhaust soot and crankcase soot. The annealing procedure was performed in an argon gas atmosphere at 2,000℃ and 2,700℃, and Raman spectroscopy and High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy(HRTEM) were used to analyze the structural properties of the samples. Furthermore, digital image processing techniques were utilized to quantitatively analyze the acquired HRTEM images. The Raman analysis demonstrated a relatively high G/D ratio in the exhaust soot and annealing conditions at 2,700℃. In the HRTEM images, both soot were able to identify similar forms of graphite nanostructures, but there were limitations in that they could not quantitatively derive differences in the degree of graphite depending on the type of soot and annealing temperature. Thus, digital image processing quantitatively analyzed the length and tortuosity of the fringe of the HRTEM image, which is consistent with the Raman analysis. This meant that the exhaust soot had a more graphite structure than the crankcase soot, and that annealing at a higher temperature improved the graphite structure. This study confirmed that both the crankcase soot and exhaust soot can be recycled as a graphite materials.

A Study on Development of Design Program for PCV Valve (PCV 밸브의 설계 프로그램 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Hoon;Islam, Md. Tajul;Lee, Yeon-Won;Kim, Young-Duk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.228-232
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    • 2005
  • Automobiles are very important as modern society is developed. Increase of the number of the automobiles cause environmental problem, that is, air pollution. So, many countries are adopting a environmental law. Automobile manufacturing companies have developing methods to prevent air pollution with increase of the efficiency of automotive engines. PCV(Positive Crankcase Ventilation) system which is one of them is made by the closed loop that consists of combustion chamber, crankcase, manifold suction tube and manifold. PCV valve is attached on manifold tube to control the flowrate of blowby gas. PCV valve is an important part in this system but it is difficult to design PCV valve which satisfies the required flowrate of blowby gas. In this study, our purpose is to help a PCV valve designer with the development of a design program. We used 4th order Runge-Kutta method and Bernoulli's equation to analyze the spool dynamic motion. By the comparison between our program and experiment, we think that a PCV designer can use our program in their work place.

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