Rab, Shanay and Yadav, Sanjay and Sharma, R. K. and Kumar, Lalit and Gupta, V. K. and Zafer, Afaqul and Haleem, Abid (2019) Development of hydraulic cross floating valve. Review of Scientific Instruments, 90 (8). 085102- 085110. ISSN 0034-6748

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Abstract

This paper describes the design, simulation, development, and analysis of a Cross Floating Valve (CFV), an important instrument used in a cross float or pressure calibration system of pressure balances (PBs) to make the calibration process easy and time efficient. The design aspects of the CFV include the selection of proper materials and modeling of various necessary components of the CFV. For the piston design, 5 different materials, SS304, SS316, Aermet 340, SS440C, and AISI17-4PH were used. After the design, simulation studies were carried out using the ANSYS (Workbench R15.0) software to understand the behavior of stress, strain, and deformation. Out of the 5 materials thus used, the values of the factor of safety of 2 materials (SS304 and SS316) were found to be below expectations and hence were not used in the fabrication process. Among the rest of the 3 other materials (AISI17-4PH, SS440C, and Aermet 340) having a factor of safety within the expected limits, Aermet 340 was also ignored because of its high cost. Finally, AISI17-4PH and SS440C were used to fabricate the piston, the most important and critical component of the CFV. The final CFV thus developed was tested for its performance in the cross floating experiments with 2 different sets of PBs. The results thus obtained show that the use of CFV reduces the calibration time considerably which is approximately 30% (average time of increasing and decreasing orders of pressure) from the time taken in performing calibration without using CFV, which is a significant achievement.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to M/s American Institute of Physics.
Subjects:	Engineering Instruments/ Instrumentation Applied Physics/Condensed Matter Physics > Physics of Fluids and Plasmas
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Mr. Yogesh Joshi
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2020 10:19
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2020 10:19
URI:	http://npl.csircentral.net/id/eprint/4147

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