• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.20-27
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• 2012

Mechanical seals are one of main components of high speed centrifugal pumps. So, it is very important to detect the faults (scratch, notch, indentation, wear) of mechanical seals since the damage of seal can cause a critical failures or accidents of machinery system. In the past, many researchers mainly performed to detect the seal fault using the time signals measured from sensors. Recently, studies are focused on the development of on-line real time monitoring system. But study on the feature parameters used for fault detection of mechanical seals has a little been performed. In this paper, we showed feature parameters extracted from accelerated and acoustic signals by using the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), alpha coefficient, statistical parameters. And also verified the possibility for fault detection of mechanical seal.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 2005년도 연구개발 발표회 논문집
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• pp.60-63
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• 2005

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.69-76
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• 1989

This paper presents a method of the optimum design for rotating shaft of centrifugal pump. That is, the object is to optimize the system in stability at the operating speed, unbalance response in the vicinity of the rotor critical speed, leakage flow of the seals. The objective function is composed of these three elements and is minimized by changing seal cleareance, diamoters, and lengths. A typical double suction centrifugal pump is analyzed and its objective function is presented. Then the optimum dimensions of seals are obtained, and vibration characteristics at both initial and optimum conditions are investigated.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.154-159
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• 2016

This paper presents an experimental study of the leakage performance and endurance performance of a mechanical face seal in the 7-ton-class turbopump of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle 2 third-stage engine. We install a mechanical face seal between the fuel pump and turbine to prevent the mixing of the fuel and turbine gas. We design and manufacture a prototype mechanical face seal, which has two parts, namely, a bellows seal assembly and mating ring. We set up a test facility to measure the leakage and endurance of the mechanical face seal. For the similarity tests, we use water under real operating conditions such as high rotational speed, high temperature, and high pressure. Through investigation of the leakage and carbon wear rate, it is possible to evaluate the performance of the mechanical face seal. The results of the leakage and endurance performance test demonstrate the absence of any leakage from the prototype mechanical face seal after a trial run and clarify that the acceptable wear rate fully satisfies the turbopump requirements. Finally, we install a qualified mechanical face seal in a 7-ton-class turbopump and perform a validation test in the turbopump real-propellant test facility in the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. The test results confirm that the mechanical face seal works well under real operating conditions.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.31-40
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• 1986

With the tendency toward high speed and high pressure in centrifugal pumps, the problem of sub-synchronous vibration has arisen, caused by the hydraulic forces of the working fluid, such as wearring, balance piston, impeller, etc.. These forces can drastically alter the rotor critical speeds and stability characteristics, and can be acted significant destabilizing forces. For preventing such self-excited vibration, the desing of the rotor system needs, which would secure the stability of the machine. In this paper, a procedure is presented for dynamic modeling of rotor-bearing-seal-impeller systems which consist of rigid disks, distributed parameter finite rotor elements and discrete bearings, seals and impellers. A finite element model including the effects of rotatory inertia and gyroscopic moments is developed using the consistent matrix approach. The technique of dynamic matrix reduction is applied to the shaft matrices to reduce them to a set of matrices of dynamic of significantly fewer degrees of freedom. The representation of bearing, seal and impeller elements is in term of linearized stiffness and damping matrices by reasonably small perturbations from equilibrium. The stability behavior of a typical double suction centrifugal pump is presented. Results show the influence of clearance and flow conditions on running speeds and stability characteristics.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1386-1390
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• 2007

This paper presents the equipment condition monitoring technology for the process or the equipment using statistical techniques. The equipment condition monitoring system consists of an empirical model to estimate the expected sensor values of process variables and a diagnose model to detect the abnormal condition and to identify the root source of the problem. The empirical model is constructed by the analysis of historic data. The diagnose model uses the sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) technique. The monitoring system was tested with real operating data acquired from the Reactor Coolant Pump Seal in the Nuclear Power Plant. It can detect the system degradation or failure at the early stage since it is able to catch the subtle deviation of process variables from normal condition.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.261-271
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• 2000

In this paper the leakage prediction and rotordynamic analysis of an annular seal with a smooth rotor and circumferentially grooved stator are performed based on a three-controlvolume theory. The present analysis is validated by comparing with the experimental data of Iwatsubo and Sheng and theoretical results suggested by Marquette and Childs. For the leakage prediction the present analysis shows a good agreement with Marquette and Childs' result and a qualitation agreement with Iwatsubo and Shengs' experimental data. Direct and cross-coupled stiffness coefficients show closer agreement with the experimental values than those of Marquette and Childs. However, direct damping coefficient shows greater discrepancy from the experimental value than Marquette and Childs'.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2001년도 추계학술발표회요약집
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• pp.254.2-254
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• 2001

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2005년도 제25회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.375-383
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• 2005

본 논문은 국내 최초의 액체산소와 케로신을 사용한 액체로켓엔진용 터보펌프의 개발에 관하여 기술하였다. 개발 중인 터보펌프는 가스 발생기 형식의 30톤급 액체로켓엔진에 사용 가능하다. 본 터보펌프는 일축에 조립된 산화제펌프, 연료펌프, 충동형 터빈, Inter-propellant seal(IPS)로 구성되어 있다. IPS는 액체산소와 케로신이 상호작용을 하지 않도록 차단해주는 장치이다. 현재 모사매질(물 및 공기)을 사용하여 각 단품 및 시스템 성능시험을 마쳤으며 hot firing 시험이 대기 중에 있다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2020

7톤급 터보펌프 실매질시험에서 계측된 고주파 신호인 가속도와 압력섭동에 대한 주파수 분석(waterfall, frequency spectrum), 실효값(RMS) 계산 등의 신호 처리를 통해 산화제펌프의 신뢰성을 평가하였다. 계측된 압력섭동 신호 분석을 통해 산화제펌프의 누설 유로에 위치한 산화제 후방 플로팅 링에 의한 강한 압력섭동이 발생하였고 이는 산화제펌프 입구 및 출구 압력과 가속도 신호에도 영향을 주는 것을 확인하였다. 터보펌프의 가속도 실효값 계산을 통해 정격 운용 조건에서의 터보펌프는 양호한 진동 성능을 보여주고 있으며 가속도 회전수 성분 중 축계에 영향을 주는 회전수 동기 주파수 성분이 강하게 나타나는 것을 확인하였다.