The EAST superconducting tokamak, an advanced steady-state plasma physics experimental device, has been built at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. All the toroidal field magnets and poloida...The EAST superconducting tokamak, an advanced steady-state plasma physics experimental device, has been built at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. All the toroidal field magnets and poloidal field magnets, made of NbTi/Cu cable-in-conduit conductor, are cooled with forced flow supercritical helium at 3.8 K. The cryogenic system of EAST consists of a 2 kW/4 K helium refrigerator and a helium distribution system for the cooling of coils, structures, thermal shields, bus-lines, etc. The high-speed turbo-expander is an important refrigerating component of the EAST cryogenic system. In the turbo-expander, the axial supporting technology is critical for the smooth operation of the rotor bearing system. In this paper, hydrostatic thrust bearings are designed based on the axial load of the turbo-expander. Thereafter, a computational fluid dynamics-based numerical model of the aerostatic thrust bearing is set up to evaluate the bearing performance. Tilting effect on the pressure distribution and bearing load is analyzed for the thrust beating. Bearing load and stiffness are compared with different static supply pressures. The net force from the thrust bearings can be calculated for different combinations of bearing clearance and supply pressure.展开更多
The current research of the aerostatic thrust bearing mainly focuses on the porous material bearing and inherent compensated air bearing, which aims at obtaining small physical dimension and large load capacity. Altho...The current research of the aerostatic thrust bearing mainly focuses on the porous material bearing and inherent compensated air bearing, which aims at obtaining small physical dimension and large load capacity. Although porous material bearing appears larger load capacity, materials anisotropy itself and void content distortion caused in heat-treating, and machining processes add greater complexity to internal flow transfer process. Inherent compensated air bearing has the advantages of simple structure and good stability, but its load capacity and static stiffness is not worth somewhat. In this paper, based on hydrostatic lubrication theory, finite volume method is presented for taking entrance effects into account in computing pressure distribution, load capacity and mass flow rates of circular aerostatic thrust bearings. Technical analysis, numerical simulations and laboratory demonstration tests of influence of pocket diameter and pocket depth on loading capacity of aerostatic thrust bearing are carried out on simple orifice compensated air bearings with feeding pockets. The static parameters, such as air consumption and pressure distributions, are measured as a function of supply pressure and air gap height for several different orifices and pockets size. Entrance effects are described in term of typical throttling types, and the effect of pocket diameter and pocket depth on load capacity is systematically described respectively. The proposed research results uncover the causation of throttling action of the orifice compensated air bearing with feed pocket and further develop and improve the design theory of air bearing.展开更多
首先基于分离变量算法(method of separation of variables, MSV)求解了单节流孔静压气体轴承的层流边界层方程,研究了节流孔附近流场特性,阐明了节流孔出口附近压降现象是由于惯性效应导致,并研究了轴承几何参数和供气参数对压降现象...首先基于分离变量算法(method of separation of variables, MSV)求解了单节流孔静压气体轴承的层流边界层方程,研究了节流孔附近流场特性,阐明了节流孔出口附近压降现象是由于惯性效应导致,并研究了轴承几何参数和供气参数对压降现象的影响规律。最终提出了压降现象产生的临界条件为压比为0.940 9,也即压比大于临界压比时,压降现象消失。其次基于质量流量相等原则,结合层流边界层的MSV方法及雷诺方程的解析算法,提出了一种计算节流孔系数的新方法,并研究了轴承的几何参数及供气参数对节流孔系数的影响规律。结果显示,节流孔系数存在着参数敏感和不敏感区域,这是由于当压比小于等于0.6左右时,节流孔系数趋近于一个常数0.86左右。展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51406157,51506209)partially supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2014M552438)
文摘The EAST superconducting tokamak, an advanced steady-state plasma physics experimental device, has been built at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. All the toroidal field magnets and poloidal field magnets, made of NbTi/Cu cable-in-conduit conductor, are cooled with forced flow supercritical helium at 3.8 K. The cryogenic system of EAST consists of a 2 kW/4 K helium refrigerator and a helium distribution system for the cooling of coils, structures, thermal shields, bus-lines, etc. The high-speed turbo-expander is an important refrigerating component of the EAST cryogenic system. In the turbo-expander, the axial supporting technology is critical for the smooth operation of the rotor bearing system. In this paper, hydrostatic thrust bearings are designed based on the axial load of the turbo-expander. Thereafter, a computational fluid dynamics-based numerical model of the aerostatic thrust bearing is set up to evaluate the bearing performance. Tilting effect on the pressure distribution and bearing load is analyzed for the thrust beating. Bearing load and stiffness are compared with different static supply pressures. The net force from the thrust bearings can be calculated for different combinations of bearing clearance and supply pressure.
基金supported by Basic Scientific Research Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. k1402040202)
文摘The current research of the aerostatic thrust bearing mainly focuses on the porous material bearing and inherent compensated air bearing, which aims at obtaining small physical dimension and large load capacity. Although porous material bearing appears larger load capacity, materials anisotropy itself and void content distortion caused in heat-treating, and machining processes add greater complexity to internal flow transfer process. Inherent compensated air bearing has the advantages of simple structure and good stability, but its load capacity and static stiffness is not worth somewhat. In this paper, based on hydrostatic lubrication theory, finite volume method is presented for taking entrance effects into account in computing pressure distribution, load capacity and mass flow rates of circular aerostatic thrust bearings. Technical analysis, numerical simulations and laboratory demonstration tests of influence of pocket diameter and pocket depth on loading capacity of aerostatic thrust bearing are carried out on simple orifice compensated air bearings with feeding pockets. The static parameters, such as air consumption and pressure distributions, are measured as a function of supply pressure and air gap height for several different orifices and pockets size. Entrance effects are described in term of typical throttling types, and the effect of pocket diameter and pocket depth on load capacity is systematically described respectively. The proposed research results uncover the causation of throttling action of the orifice compensated air bearing with feed pocket and further develop and improve the design theory of air bearing.
文摘首先基于分离变量算法(method of separation of variables, MSV)求解了单节流孔静压气体轴承的层流边界层方程,研究了节流孔附近流场特性,阐明了节流孔出口附近压降现象是由于惯性效应导致,并研究了轴承几何参数和供气参数对压降现象的影响规律。最终提出了压降现象产生的临界条件为压比为0.940 9,也即压比大于临界压比时,压降现象消失。其次基于质量流量相等原则,结合层流边界层的MSV方法及雷诺方程的解析算法,提出了一种计算节流孔系数的新方法,并研究了轴承的几何参数及供气参数对节流孔系数的影响规律。结果显示,节流孔系数存在着参数敏感和不敏感区域,这是由于当压比小于等于0.6左右时,节流孔系数趋近于一个常数0.86左右。
基金Supported by National Science and Technology Special Program(No.2011ZX04004-041)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.90923023)Doctoral Program Foundation of Higher Education of China(No.20092302110055)
