改变螺旋槽设计.pdf

Chin.J . Chem. Eng., 15(4) 499-506 (2007) An Improved Design of Spiral Groove Mechanical Seal ZHOU Jianfeng(M @g@)*, GU Boqin(@$fb#b) and CHEN Ye(%@) Fluid Sealing and Control Laboratory, College of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Tech- nology, Nanjing 210009, China Abstract The coupling effect among the flow of fluid film, the frictional heat of fluid film and the thermal de- formation of sealing rings is inherent in mechanical seals. The frictional heat transfer analysis was carried out to op- timize the geometrical parameters of the sealing rings, such as the length, the inner radius and the outer radius. The geometrical parameters of spiral grooves, such as the spiral angle, the end radius, the groove depth, the ratio of the groove width to the weir width and the number of the grooves, were optimized by regarding the maximum bearing force of fluid film as the optimization objective with the coupling effect considered. The depth of spiral groove was designed to gradually increase from the end radius of spiral groove to the outer radius of end face in order to de- ‘crease the weakening effect of thermal deformation on the hydrodynamic effect of spiral grooves. The end faces of sealing rings were machined to form a divergent gap at inner radius, and a parallel gap will form to reduce the leakage rate when the thermal deformation takes place. The improved spiral groove mechanical seal possesses good heat transfer performance and sealing ability. Keywords spiral groove, mechanical seal, heat transfer, optimum design, bearing force, leakage rate 1 INTRODUCTION The characteristics of fluid flow in ideal parallel gap The non-co