ACTIVAL – Electromechanical valve for reciprocating piston compressors
At a glance
- Project leader : Prof. Dr. Ruprecht Altenburger
- Project team : Michael Bigler, Michael Ernst Peter
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : CTI (KTI-Projekt / Projekt Nr. 11549.2;5 PFIW-IW)
- Project partner : Burckhardt Compression AG
- Contact person : Ruprecht Altenburger
Description
In the project ACTIVAL, the IMS and its industrial partner
Burckhardt-Compression developed an actively controlled valve for
reciprocating piston compressors that has significantly lower
pressure and flow losses compared to passive designs. This was
achieved with a very high cycle number of 10^9 and low power
consumption.
The IMS was able to contribute to the development in particular
with flow investigations, the development of a control system for
soft landing at high cycle rates, electronics and sensor
development, the optimisation of the power consumption and the
optimisation of the actuator.
The newly developed valve has the following advantages:
The valve can be switched at any time.- The efficiency could be increased significantly.
- The principle allows volume control of the outflowing gas.