ZHANG Wei-zheng, HUANG Wen-bin, JIA Jin-guang, DU Kun-ming, YU Lie-xin
Aiming at the erosion wear problem with blackwater valve in coal chemical pipeline system, taking V-type regulating ball valve as the research object, based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and erosion wear theory, the erosion wear numerical simulation of V-type ball valve was carried out. The distributive law of flow velocity, pressure and erosion morphology in the fluid domain of V-type ball valve is obtained, and compared with the engineering failure valve. The results show that there is obvious negative pressure in the V-type ball valve under the condition of small opening, and the negative pressure value is much lower than the saturated vapor pressure of blackwater at 170 ℃, and the valve is prone to flow cavitation. Under the typical adjustment opening condition, the flow channel upstream surface in the ball body forms an obvious target-like high-pressure area due to the high-speed jet of the V port. Under the high-frequency erosion of the solid medium, the target-like high-pressure area is prone to obvious wear pits. The serious wear area of V-type ball valve is mainly distributed in the front seat of the valve, the upstream surface of the flow channel in the ball body, the valve body and the rear seat of the valve. When the sealing pair area of the valve seat is seriously scoured and worn by particles, it is easy to cause sealing failure. In addition, the maximum wear rate and average wear rate of the valve wall gradually decrease with the increase of the opening degree. When the relative opening degree is greater than 40%, the wear rate is significantly reduced. In order to prolong the service life of the valve, the V-type ball valve should be reduced to work at a small opening degree.