Optimization Of Kinematic Linkage For Variable Displacement Pump Through Adaptive Control

  • Mr.Suyog Gaware, et. al.

Abstract

Lubrication is significant part of machine maintenance. The automated lubrication system, is applied to supply controlled quantity of lubricant to multiple slide and bearing locations in a machine during its operation. The new system is beneficial in two aspects namely it saves labor cost and secondly it helps in maintenance of machine in precise manner. At the heart of the ALS system remains the pump that supplies the lubricant to the distributor system. The conventional systems apply pumps that are of constant or fixed displacement, where in the discharge cannot be controlled hence they are not useful for the ALS.

On the other hand, the advanced systems that are fully automatic use variable displacement pumps which although very precise are extremely costly and hence render very costly for such applications especially in case of small scale industry. Thus in the paper a proposed auto control variable displacement pump is attained through an innovative kinematic linkage based stroke variation mechanism that is controlled using an automatic control link mechanism that can precisely vary the stroke of the mechanism and thus the pumping unit volume flow rate can be controlled. Paper discuss the kinematic linkage design by use of graphical method and the also through ADAMS software.

Published
2020-12-30
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Articles