• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.75-78
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• 2002

In this paper, flow on the rear region of a butterfly valve was analysed by using numerical and experimental methods. The butterfly-valve disk angle is changed as 0-60 degree and the uniform flow velocity was fixed In this experiment. It was shown that the numerical results are similar to the experimental results. General discussions are given to the flow-pattern change upon the disk angle of the valve.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.4937-4943
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• 2012

Butterfly valves have been used to control the flow rate of various fluids in many industries because it have unique manageability compare to other valves. The flow rate passing through the butterfly valves can be controlled according to the coefficient of capacity calculated by disk angle change. In this study, flow analysis by 3D modeling was performed to derive the coefficient of capacity to evaluate and improve newly developed butterfly valves. Also, required measurement system was established to verify the performance of the valves, and to compare with the calculated results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.107-114
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• 2021

Butterfly valves are used in various industries to control the flow rate, flow direction, pressure, and temperature. These are gaining popularity in the field of plant industry to enable high-differential pressure because of their low maintenance costs and ease of installation. This study presents a numerical analysis method to analyze changes in the flow characteristics of a high-differential pressure control butterfly valve based on the location and shape of the orifice. The numerical analysis was conducted using a commercial CFD program. The analysis results show a correlation between the orifice shape and cavitation phenomenon.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.378-383
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• 2013

A butterfly throttle valve has been used to control the brake power of an SI engine by controlling the mass flow-rate of intake air in the induction system. However, the valve has a serious effect on the volumetric efficiency of the engine due to the pressure resistance in the induction system. In this study, a new intake air controlling valve named "Variable Geometry Throttle Valve(VGTV)" is proposed to minimize the pressure resistance in the intake system of an SI engine. The design concept of VGTV is on the application of a venturi nozzle in the air flow path. Instead of change of the butterfly valve angle in the airflow field, the throat width of the VGTV valve is varied with the operating condition of an SI engine. In this numerical study, CFD(computational fluid dynamics) simulation technique was incorporated to have an aerodynamics performance analysis of the two air flow controlling systems; butterfly valve and VGTV and compared the results to know which system has lower pressure resistance in the air intake system. From the result, it was found that VGTV has lower pressure resistance than the butterfly valve. Especially VGTV is effective on the low and medium load operating condition of an SI engine. The averaged pressure resistance of VGTV is about 49.0% lower than the value of the conventional butterfly throttle valve.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.643-649
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• 2011

For the development of butterfly valves used in liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels, the seat tightness is one of the important factors to be taken into account in the valve-design process. An O-ring-type metal seal with a retaining ring showing good seat tightness at cryogenic temperatures has been widely used, despite the high manufacturing costs involved. As an alternative, a flexible solid metal seal offers not only sufficient tightness of the butterfly valve, meeting specification requirements, but also relatively low manufacturing costs. In this study, a design criterion to ensure the seat tightness of the butterfly valve using the flexible solid metal seal is proposed. The contact pressure can be calculated by the simulation of the frictional contact behavior between the surface of the metal seal and the valve disc. The geometry of the flexible solid metal seal is determined so that it satisfies the design criterion for sufficient seat tightness, and is verified by experiments according to BS6755 and BS6364.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.30 no.8
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• pp.824-830
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• 2013

We propose a tracking control system for butterfly valves. A sliding mode controller with a fuzzy-neural network algorithm was applied to the design of the tracking control system. The control scheme used the real-time update law for the unmodeled system dynamics using a fuzzy-neural network algorithm. The performance of the proposed control system was assessed through a range of experiments.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.1417-1427
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• 2000

A flow stabilizer, which is made of a honeycomb and three different mesh screens, is located downstream of a butterfly-type valve, for the reduction of flow disturbances behind the valve. Mean flow and turbulence measurements as well as flow visualizations are conducted in the downstream region of the deepens the non-uniformity of the streamwise velocity component and turbulence. The mesh screens considerably reduce the turbulence and enhance the uniformity of mean velocities. The combination of the honeycomb and the three mesh screens results in an efficient reduction in the flow disturbances. In addition, the flow stabilizer proves to have a good performance in the suppression of turbulence at a short distance.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.65-70
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• 2014

The effectiveness of a perforated plate installed additionally at butterfly valve to reduce cavitation which can cause vibration, noise, erosion, and flow path blockage has been investigated using CFD. Rayleigh-Plesset equation was applied to simulate cavitation phenomena. 3D flow simulations have been performed for 6 cases to consider the occurrence of cavitation at the downstream of the valve. From the present results, the perforated plate was thought to be very effective to suppress the cavitation inside of the pipe.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.541-542
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.571-572
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• 2008