Model of the floating bearing bushing movement in an external gear pump and the relation to its parameterization

This article presents the modeling, simulation and experimental validation of the movementof the floating bearing bushing in an external gear pump. As a starting point, a complete pumpparameterization was carried out through standard tests, and these parameters were used in a firstbond graph model i...

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Autores: Torrent Gelmà, Miquel, Gámez Montero, Pedro Javier|||0000-0002-5168-3521, Codina Macià, Esteban|||0000-0001-5389-6996
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/360074
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/360074
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14248553
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Gear pumps
Bearings (Machinery)
Gear pump
Floating bearing bushings
Loss coefficients
Bond graph
Lab tests
In-field tests
Bombes d'engranatges
Coixinets (Maquinària)
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria mecànica::Mecànica de fluids
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Sumario:This article presents the modeling, simulation and experimental validation of the movementof the floating bearing bushing in an external gear pump. As a starting point, a complete pumpparameterization was carried out through standard tests, and these parameters were used in a firstbond graph model in order to simulate the gear pump behavior. This model was experimentallyvalidated under working conditions in field tests. Then, a sophisticated bond graph model of themovement of the floating bushing was developed from the equations that define its lubrication.Finally, as a result, both models were merged by integrating the dynamics of the floating bushingbearing with the variation of the characteristic parameters (loss coefficients). Finally, the finalmodel was experimentally validated both in laboratory and field tests by assembling the pump ina drilling machine to drive the auxiliary movements. The novelty of this article is the conceptionand construction of a simple and experimentally validated tool for the study of a gear pump, whichrelates its macroscopic behavior as a black box (defined by the loss coefficients) to the internal changesof the unit (defined by its internal lubrication)