Abstract:
The present invention provides a hydraulic pressure accumulator having a pressure vessel and a piston chamber that is located within the interior space of the pressure vessel. In one particular embodiment, the invention relates to filament wound composite overwrapped hydraulic pressure accumulators with serviceable pistons.
Abstract:
An apparatus for determining the position of a movable separation element which is arranged within an accumulator as a separator between a gas space and a fluid space, wherein the determination apparatus comprises at least one pressure sensor for the detection of pressure data, at least one ultrasonic sensor for the detection of ultrasonic data and at least one calculation unit for the evaluation of the data with the aid of which determination apparatus the position of the separation element can be determined
Abstract:
The invention relates to systems and methods for rapidly and isothermally expanding gas in a cylinder. The cylinder is used in a staged hydraulic-pneumatic energy conversion system and includes a gas chamber (pneumatic side) and a fluid chamber (hydraulic side) and a piston or other mechanism that separates the gas chamber and fluid chamber while allowing the transfer of force/pressure between each opposing chamber. The gas chamber of the cylinder includes ports that are coupled to a heat transfer subassembly that circulates gas from the pneumatic side and exchanges its heat with a counter flow of ambient temperature fluid from a reservoir or other source.
Abstract:
The invention relates to mechanical engineering and can be used in hydraulic systems for transferring hydraulic energy between working liquids with different temperatures with reduced heat exchange between said working liquids. The problem addressed by the present invention consists in producing a hydraulic shock absorber for transferring hydraulic energy between working liquids with different temperatures with reduced heat exchange between said working liquids. This problem is solved in that a hydraulic shock absorber is proposed which comprises a housing in which at least two reservoirs of variable volume are arranged, said reservoirs being separate from one another and each communicating with a dedicated port in the housing. The reservoirs of variable volume are separated from one another by at least two movable dividing walls, between which at least one buffer reservoir is formed which is filled with a working liquid, preferably with a low thermal conductivity, i.e. a thermal conductivity not exceeding 0.2 W·m -1 ·K -1 .
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely determine the position of a separation element with a simplified manner of construction.SOLUTION: A position determination apparatus is an apparatus for determining the position of a movable separation element 10 which is arranged within an accumulator 12 as a separator between a gas space 14 and a fluid space 16, wherein the determination apparatus includes at least one pressure sensor 26 for detection of pressure data, at least one ultrasonic sensor 28 for detection of ultrasonic data and at least one calculation unit 30 for evaluation of the data, with the aid of which determination apparatus, the position of the separation element 10 can be determined. The determination apparatus further includes at least one temperature sensor 32 for detection of temperature data.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a variable pressure vessel. The vessel includes a liquid chamber and a gas chamber and a moveable barrier therebetween. The vessel has a volume, a first stroke, and a second stroke. The liquid chamber and the gas chamber each have a variable volume that changes responsive to the first stroke and the second stroke. The gas chamber has an outer wall wherein at least a portion of the outer wall is thermally conductive and allows heat to transfer therethrough. Movement of the moveable barrier between the liquid chamber and the gas chamber causes the volume in the liquid chamber and the volume in the gas chamber to displace each other. The volume in the gas chamber plus the volume in the liquid chamber is generally constant and generally equals the volume in the variable pressure vessel.