Influence of Traditional and Antislam Air Valve Characteristics on Transient Pressure Control
Publication: Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice
Volume 13, Issue 3
Abstract
In pressurized water delivery systems, the admission and release discharge coefficients directly affect the transient control effect of air valves; however, the selection of the admission and release discharge coefficients in hydraulic transient numerical simulations has not been clearly specified. Herein, transient discharge theory was applied to study the influence of the admission and release discharge coefficients of an air valve on the transient control effect of a water delivery system. The method of characteristics combined with specific examples was used to numerically simulate the transient pressure control effect of a traditional air valve and an antislam air valve with different admission and release discharge coefficients. The results provide a theoretical basis for selecting the admission and release discharge coefficients of air valves and enable a reasonable selection of air valves during the numerical simulation of hydraulic transient values for a pressurized water delivery system.
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Some or all data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This work was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education (Grant No. 19JS046) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2021JQ-479). The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Volume 13 • Issue 3 • August 2022
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Received: Aug 23, 2021
Accepted: Mar 16, 2022
Published online: May 23, 2022
Published in print: Aug 1, 2022
Discussion open until: Oct 23, 2022
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