Study on Oil Film Characteristics of Piston-Cylinder Pair of Ultra-High Pressure Axial Piston Pump

• Main Authors: Jin Zhang, Baolei Liu, Ruiqi LÜ, Qifan Yang, Qimei Dai
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-01-01
• Series: Processes
• Subjects: ultra-high pressure; axial piston pump; piston-cylinder pair; oil film characteristics; experimental study on pump
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/8/1/68

The piston-cylinder pair is the key friction pairs in the piston pump. Its performance determines the volume efficiency of piston pump. With the increase of load pressure, the leakage at the clearance of piston-cylinder pair will also increase. In order to reduce leakage, the clearance of the piston-cylinder pair of the ultra-high pressure piston pump is smaller than that of the medium-high pressure piston pump. In order to explore whether the piston will stuck in the narrow gap, it is necessary to study the oil film characteristics of the piston-cylinder pair under the condition of ultra-high pressure, so as to provide a theoretical basis for the optimal design of the piston-cylinder pair of ultra-high pressure axial piston pump. In this paper, an ultra-high pressure axial piston pump is taken as the research object, and its structural characteristics are analyzed. The mathematical model of the oil film thickness of the piston-cylinder pair is established by using the cosine theorem in the cross section of the piston. The finite volume method is used to discretize the Reynolds equation of the oil film of the piston-cylinder pair, and the over relaxation iteration method is used to solve the discrete equations, and the mathematical model of the oil film pressure of the piston-cylinder pair is obtained. The mathematical model of oil film thickness and pressure field of piston-cylinder pair is solved by programming. The dynamic change process of oil film thickness and pressure field of the plunger pair of the ultra-high pressure axial piston pump under the load of 20 MPa and 70 MPa is obtained. Under the two conditions, the thinnest area of the oil film reaches 3 μm and 2 μm dangerous area respectively; the oil film pressure reaches 20 MPa and 70 MPa respectively when the swashplate rotates 10° and continues to increase with the increase of swashplate rotation angle. When the rotation angle reaches 90°, the oil film pressure also reaches the maximum value, but there is no pressure spike phenomenon. The oil film pressure characteristics of ultra-high pressure axial piston pump under conventional and ultra-high pressure conditions were obtained by modification and experimentation.