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ISSN: 1874-155X ― Volume 14, 2020

Research on Sealing Properties and its Influence Factors of Spherical Mechanical Seal Based on ANSYS



Xuhui Zhou, Zhenglin Liu*, Li Zou, Xingxin Liang, Huanjie Wang, Jun Yang
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, Hubei, China

Abstract

When a marine stern shaft is bent with shafting misalignment and stern bearing wear factors, etc., the sealing properties of a plane mechanical seal is declined with the increase of both contact pressure and temperature of sealing surface, so a spherical mechanical seal which can automatically adjust the contact state of sealing surfaces is proposed to replace the plane mechanical seal in order to solve the aforementioned problems. The sealing properties of a spherical mechanical seal is directly influenced by the sealing structure size such as sealing spherical radius, the distance between stator and rotary ring seats, inner and outer diameters of stator ring. The thermal-structure coupling model of the spherical mechanical seal in underwater vehicles is built with ANSYS finite element method, and the influence of structure size on the sealing performances of the spherical mechanical seal is discussed. The study results show that as spherical radius is increased, the contact region of spherical sealing surfaces is decreased and the opening region is expanded, and the highest temperature and maximum contact pressure on the spherical sealing surfaces are raised. As inner or outer diameter of stator ring is increased, the maximum contact pressure of the former is raised, and one of the latter is declined, but the highest temperatures of both on sealing surfaces are enhanced linearly. When the distance between static and rotary ring seats is increased, the highest temperature of sealing surface and maximum contact pressure are increased in a nonlinear way. These conclusions are of important theoretical significance and engineering application value for the structure optimization of spherical mechanical seals in vessels, particularly underwater vehicles.

Keywords: Contact pressure, Deformation, Finite element method, Spherical mechanical seal, Thermal-structure coupling model, Temperature.

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2016
Volume: 10
First Page: 160
Last Page: 172
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-10-160
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01610010160

Article History:

Received Date: 17/12/2015
Revision Received Date: 07/07/2016
Acceptance Date: 10/07/2016
Electronic publication date: 30/09/2016
Collection year: 2016

© Zhou et al.; Licensee Bentham Open.

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* Address correspondence to this author at the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 1040 Heping Road, Yujiatou Campus, Wuhan 430063, People’s Republic of China; Tel: 00865-51239638; Fax: 86533886; E-mail: zlliu812@163.com


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