• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.2989-2994
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• 2000

A mechanical face seal is a tribo-element intended to control leakage of working fluid at the interface of a rotating shaft and its housing. Leakage of working fluid decreases drastically as the clearance between mating seal faces gets smaller. But the very small clearance may result in an increased reduction of seal life because of high wear and heat generation. Therefore, in the design of mechanical face seals a compromise between low leakage and acceptable seal life is important, ant it present a difficult and practical design problem. A fluid film or sealing dam geometry of the seal clearance affects seal lubrication performance very much, and thereby is optimization is one of the main design consideration. in this study the Reynolds equation for the sealing dam of mechanical face seals is numerically analyzed, using the Galerkin finite element method, which is readily applied to various seal geometries, to give lubrication performances, such as opening force, restoring moment, leakage, and axial and angular stiffness coefficients. Then, to improve the seal performance an optimization is performed, considering various design variables simultaneously. For the tested case the optimization ha successfully resulted in the optimal design values of outer and inner seal radii, coning, seal clearance, and balance radius while satisfying all the operation subjected constraints and design variable side-constraints, and improvements of axial and angular stiffness coefficients by 16.8% and 2.4% respectively and reduction of leakage by 38.4% have been achieved.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.283-289
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• 2010

친환경기술과 신재생 에너지 자원에 대한 세계적인 관심이 증가하면서, 플라이휠 에너지 저장 장치는 화학전지나 연료전지와 같은 기존의 에너지 저장 시스템의 대안 중 하나로 부상하고 있다. 플라이휠 에너지 저장장치의 에너지 저장 용량은 극질량 관성모멘트와 회전속도의 제곱에 비례하기 때문에, 가능한 높은 회전속도와 높은 극질량 관성모멘트를 갖도록 설계하는 것이 중요하다. 하지만, 시스템의 운전안정성 확보가 최적설계의 구속조건으로 작용할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 에너지 저장 용량을 최대화하고 운전안정성 및 외란에 대한 강인성을 확보하는 플라이휠 시스템의 최적설계를 제안한다. 그리고, 기존의 PD 제어에 비교하여 교차궤환제어법이 자이로스코프효과를 줄이고, 에너지 저장밀도를 높이는데 필수적임을 확인하였다.