Shuttle Valve
Shuttle valve with pressure bias
Description
Connections
Parameters
The Shuttle Valve component allows flow out of port C from either port A or port B, depending which pneumatic port has the higher pressure.
Based on the sonic conductance and critical pressure ratio, the pressure vs. mass flow rate relationship is calculated by the formulation used in the Orifice ISO 6358 component.
Name
Modelica ID
portA
Pneumatic port of left inlet
portB
Pneumatic port of right inlet
portC
Pneumatic port of bottom outlet
Fluid Medium Parameters
The Gas parameters used in the equations are properties defined in the Gas Model component used in the model.
Default
Units
Use default medium
true
When true the default gas properties defined for Air will be used.
useDefaultMedium
medium
−
When Use default medium is false this option gets turned on. The user can specify the name of the Gas model dragged into the canvas.
Orifice Parameters
b__lamreg
0.999
Flow transition constant from turbulent to laminar zone
blamreg
UseRestrictionArea
false
True (checked) means flow restriction area can be given which will be converted to sonic conductance based on Gidlund's approximation
Valve Parameters
popen
100
Pa
Pressure at which valve is fully open from A to C (C = Copen)
Exact
True (checked) means a first-order dyamics is used for the valve areas
t__c
0.1
s
Time constant
tc
Cmin
1 ⋅ 10−13
m3s⋅Pa
Valve Sonic Conductance when closed (leakage)
Cmax
1.6 ⋅ 10−8
Valve Sonic Conductance when fully open
Amin
0
m2
Restriction Area when closed (leakage); used when Use Restriction Area is true
Ar__max
0.00001
Valve restriction area when fully open; used when Use Restriction Area is true
Armax
b
0.54
Critical pressure ratio
bcr
See Also
Pneumatics Library
Valves
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