ABSTRACT

The Camerons Piston Check valve is a non return valve used in, pumping stations for pipelines, behind feed water pumps in power plants, on pumps in water wells. The performance parameter of primary interest to the manufacturer is the flow coefficient Cv. The flow coefficient Cv is generally found experimentally according to the standard ANSI-ISA-S75.02-1996. The Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technique is applied and the same experimental procedure has been adopted to find the flow coefficient Cv at full open condition of the valve. The 6 class 300 piston check valve is modeled to the real industrial size using Autodesk INVENTOR 11 software. The fluid domain has been extracted from the model, and the surface and volume mesh has been generated using ANSA and T-GRID softwares respectively. The computational domain consists of the inlet pipe, valve interior, and outlet pipe. The flow is considered to be Steady, Incompressible and Turbulent. The behavior of the flow has been analyzed by numerical flow simulations using FLUENT software. The flow coefficient Cv has been found and the results have been compared to the catalogue data and found to be correct.

LIST OF TABLES
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TABLE NO NO 4.1

TITLE

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Piping Requirements, Standard Test Section

38

4.2

Numerical Constants

40

LIST OF FIGURES
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FIGURE NO 2.1

FIGURES Exploded view of Piston Check Valve

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2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 4.1 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6

Types of Grid Elements Structured grid Unstructured grid Tet Elements Pure Hex Elements Hybrid Mesh Basic Flow Test System Sectional view of Model Fluid domain model Surface mesh Cut section of Surface mesh Cut section of Volume mesh Prism layers for Boundary

18 19 19 19 20 20 36 43 44 46 46 47 47

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FIGURES

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6.1 6.2

Contours of Static Pressure at Inlet and Outlet Contours of Static Pressure at Piston Surface Fluent results Contours of Static Pressure Pathlines of Velocity Magnitude Contours of Velocity Magnitude Contours of Turbulent intensity Contours of Velocity Vectors

54 54

6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8

55 57 58 59 59 60

LIST OF SYMBOLS
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SYMBOL Cv Q P1 P2 p Gf g F v V m G D d na

DESCRIPTION Valve flow co-efficient Flow rate (or) Discharge Inlet pressure Outlet pressure Pressure drop across the valve Specific gravity of flow media Density of flow media Acceleration due to gravity Specific weight Force Velocity Volume Mass Deflection of the spring Rigidity modulus or shear modulus Spring coil mean diameter Spring wire diameter Number of active coils

UNIT

GPM Pa Pa Pa

Kg/m3 m/sec2 lb/ft3 lbf m/sec m3 Kg inches psi Inches Inches