A review of direct drive proportional electrohydraulic spool valves: Industrial state-of-the-art and research advancements

Paolo Tamburrano; Andrew R. Plummer; Elia Distaso; Riccardo Amirante

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A review of direct drive proportional electrohydraulic spool valves: Industrial state-of-the-art and research advancements

Paolo Tamburrano, Andrew R. Plummer, Elia Distaso, Riccardo Amirante

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This paper reviews the state of the art of directly driven proportional directional hydraulic spool valves, which are widely used hydraulic components in the industrial and transportation sectors. First, the construction and performance of commercially available units are discussed, together with simple models of the main characteristics. The review of published research focuses on two key areas: investigations that analyze and optimize valves from a fluid dynamic point of view, and then studies on spool position control systems. Mathematical modeling is a very active area of research, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for spool geometry optimization, and dynamic spool actuation and motion modeling to inform controller design. Drawbacks and advantages of new designs and concepts are described in the paper.

Original language	English
Article number	020801
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME
Volume	141
Issue number	2
Early online date	5 Oct 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4041063
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2019

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This research has been supported by the European Commission under the Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship Programme. EC Grant Agreement n. 701336, H2020 MSCA Individual Fellowship: Development of a novel servovalve concept for aircraft (DNSVCFA). Start date: 01/09/2017, End date: 19/10/2019, Location of the project: University of Bath

Keywords

CFD
control systems
direct-drive
discharge coefficient
flow forces
proportional valves

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Control and Systems Engineering
Information Systems
Instrumentation
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Science Applications

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A review of direct drive proportional electrohydraulic spool valves: Industrial state-of-the-art and research advancements. / Tamburrano, Paolo; Plummer, Andrew R.; Distaso, Elia et al.
In: Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 141, No. 2, 020801, 01.02.2019.

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