Studies on the Influence of Non-condensable Gas Contended in Lubricating Oil on Performance of Hydrodynamic Journal Bearing

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui GUO
2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1/2/3/4/5/6) ◽  
pp. 251 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Prabhakaran Nair ◽  
Mohammed Shabbir Ahmed ◽  
Saed Thamer Al qahtani

Author(s):  
Alexander T. Hummel ◽  
Michael Rott ◽  
Christoph Schneider ◽  
David Kuschnertschuk ◽  
Günther Stelzner ◽  
...  

This paper presents an evaluation of various rotordynamic parameters at commercial vehicle turbochargers, which are operated supercritically in full-floating hydrodynamic journal bearing systems. The evaluation is conducted by using an experimental approach to determine the performance of the rotor-bearing-system in a real-life assembly at a hot gas test bench. This takes support stiffness, external heating and the excitation by seals, thrust bearings and gas forces into account, while Engine-specific excitation is not present. The system’s ability to carry additional unbalance load at different oil support pressures without the occurrence of mixed friction throughout a complete run-up is assessed. By executing this assessment for multiple assemblies with different bearings, rotors and oil types, the influence of main design and boundary parameters on the effective journal bearing performance of turbochargers is quantified.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Jang ◽  
J. W. Yoon

This paper presents an analytical method to investigate the stability of a hydrodynamic journal bearing with rotating herringbone grooves. The dynamic coefficients of the hydrodynamic journal bearing are calculated using the FEM and the perturbation method. The linear equations of motion can be represented as a parametrically excited system because the dynamic coefficients have time-varying components due to the rotating grooves, even in the steady state. Their solution can be assumed as a Fourier series expansion so that the equations of motion can be rewritten as simultaneous algebraic equations with respect to the Fourier coefficients. Then, stability can be determined by solving Hill’s infinite determinant of these algebraic equations. The validity of this research is proved by the comparison of the stability chart with the time response of the whirl radius obtained from the equations of motion. This research shows that the instability of the hydrodynamic journal bearing with rotating herringbone grooves increases with increasing eccentricity and with decreasing groove number, which play the major roles in increasing the average and variation of stiffness coefficients, respectively. It also shows that a high rotational speed is another source of instability by increasing the stiffness coefficients without changing the damping coefficients.


Journal bearing friction experiments have been made generally at relatively low temperatures and otherwise in conditions tending to prevent oxidation of the lubricating oil. Thus Beauchamp Tower’s experiments led Reynolds to the conclusion that fluid friction alone prevails in an oil film maintained by continuous rotation of the journal and that boundary conditions do not become sensible. The more recent experiments by Stanton, undertaken after the Physical Society discussion of 1919, were made to verify the conclusion, and confirmed that especially for mineral oils, “the conditions were in all cases those of perfect lubrication ( i. e ., complete fluid lubrication), no approximation to the hypothetical ones of boundary lubrication being observed,” “the conditions of lubrication of a cylindrical journal being of the Reynolds’ type right up to the seizing pressure. Stanton’s experimental conditions were such that oxidation effects were not obtained. The feed to the journal bearing was always by fresh, not circulated, oil and the temperature of the oil film was maintained at 51·6° C., i. e ., at least 50° lower than required to induce oxidation in a mineral oil particularly susceptible to the effect. The possibility that oxidation might lead to boundary conditions becoming a factor in the measurements was not considered. Oxidation of the oil used to lubricate internalcombustion engines cannot be avoided in the usual conditions of operation, and an investigation of the effect on lubricating value was begun, in connection with experiments made in association with Professor Callendar, on the oxidation of the lighter oils used as engine fuel. The results of lubrication experiments made directly on engines were difficult to interpret. The friction measured is mainly that due to the reciprocating motion of the pistons in the cylinders and oxidation being uncontrolled, the resulting accumulation of semisolid products leads to secondary friction effects greater in magnitude than the primary effect attributable to the fluid alone. The conditions of journal bearing lubrication, on the other hand, can be controlled and friction measured with fair accuracy and it appeared therefore that the investigation could be continued most effectively by using journal bearing testing machines. Machines adapted to be run at the relatively high temperature required for the oxidation of mineral oils had been designed at the N. P. L. by Mr. C. Jakeman in association with whom the experiments were continued, by permission of the authorities concerned.


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