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Shuttle Valve

Shuttle valve with pressure bias

Description

Connections

Parameters

Description

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.

Connections

Name

Description

Modelica ID

portA

Pneumatic port of left inlet

portA

portB

Pneumatic port of right inlet

portB

portC

Pneumatic port of bottom outlet

portC

Parameters

Fluid Medium Parameters

The Gas parameters used in the equations are properties defined in the Gas Model component used in the model.

Name

Default

Units

Description

Modelica ID

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.

medium

Orifice Parameters

Name

Default

Units

Description

Modelica ID

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

UseRestrictionArea

Valve Parameters

Name

Default

Units

Description

Modelica ID

popen

100

Pa

Pressure at which valve is fully open from A to C (C = Copen)

popen

Exact

false

 

True (checked) means a first-order dyamics is used for the valve areas

Exact

t__c

0.1

s

Time constant

tc

Cmin

1  1013

m3sPa

Valve Sonic Conductance when closed (leakage)

Cmin

Cmax

1.6  108

m3sPa

Valve Sonic Conductance when fully open

Cmax

Amin

0

m2

Restriction Area when closed (leakage); used when Use Restriction Area is true

Amin

Ar__max

0.00001

m2

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