BladderAccumulator

    BladderAccumulator

Library

HydraulicsByFluidon/Components/Volumes

Description

Model of a gas-loaded accumulator with a bladder separating the media. Fluid inertia or the stiffness of the bladder is not considered. The gas is modelled as an ideal gas.

The parameters Biasing pressure, Nominal volume and Dead volume describe the accumulator in the unconnected state. At the beginning of a simulation, the state variables of the accumulator are computed depending on the parameter Initial pressure of the hydraulic volume and Isothermal start.

If the bladder expands to its maximum volume, only the Dead volume remains in the accumulator. Due to the typically small dead volume, a high mathematical stiffness of the accumulator can result. This behavior might require choosing a correspondingly small timestep.

The parameter Polytropic exponent characterizes how pressure changes affect the volume and stiffness of the gas bladder. If Polytropic exponent is set to unity, the change of state within the gas is isothermal. This implies perfect heat transfer between the gas in the bladder and the environment such that no change of temperature occurs in the gas. This situation is encountered in hydraulic accumulators if the load cycles of the liquid are lengthy.

If the Polytropic exponent is set to the isentropic exponent (1.4 for air), the gas undergoes an adiabatic change of state which means that no heat exchange with the environment can occur. This is typically the case for very short load cycles.

If Isothermal start is set to true, it is assumed that the change from biasing pressure to the initial pressure happened at constant temperature. If Isothermal start is set to false, a polytropic process incorporating the parameter Polytropic exponent is assumed.

Parameters

BladderAccumulator_0

NameLabelDescriptionData TypeValid Values

mo_nominalVolume

nominalVolume

Nominal volume

Scalar

mo_deadVolume

deadVolume

Dead volume

Scalar

mo_relBiasingPressure

relBiasingPressure

Biasing pressure (rel.)

Scalar

mo_biasingTemperature

biasingTemperature

Biasing Temperature

Scalar

mo_polytropicExponent

polytropicExponent

Polytropic exponent

Scalar

mo_isothermalStart

isothermalStart

Isothermal start

Scalar

true
false

mo_initialPressure

initialPressure

Initial pressure of the hydraulic volume

Scalar

mo_FixedInitialPressure

FixedInitialPressure

fixed initial pressure

Scalar

true
false

mo_enableVolumeOutput

enableVolumeOutput

Enable fluid volume output

Number

0
1

BladderAccumulator_1

NameLabelDescriptionData TypeValid Values

mo_fluidVolume

fluidVolume

fluidVolume

Structure

mo_fluidVolume/fixed

fixed

Cell of scalars

true
false

mo_fluidVolume/start

start

Cell of scalars

Ports

NameTypeDescriptionIO TypeNumber

fluidPort

implicit

Hydraulic port

input

1

Port 2

implicit

Fluid volume

output

mo_enableVolumeOutput