This course will provide you with the essential resources to design and extend the up-time and life of hydraulic systems. Content draws on years of practical field experience and consulting.
You will be guided through a detailed 20 step approach to design a complete system including cylinder diameter, cylinder wall thickness, rod diameter, pump flow rate, pipe diameters, kW / amperage to drive the system and decompression requirements.
In addition to overall system design, you will be instructed in how to solve challenging problems in hydraulic systems.
This course will provide you with the essential resources to design and extend the up-time and life of hydraulic systems. Content draws on years of practical field experience and consulting.
You will be guided through a detailed 20 step approach to design a complete system including cylinder diameter, cylinder wall thickness, rod diameter, pump flow rate, pipe diameters, kW / amperage to drive the system and decompression requirements.
In addition to overall system design, you will be instructed in how to solve challenging problems in hydraulic systems.
Detailed animations are provided to help understand the flow of oil and operations of the various components and systems.
Materials covered:- Various types valves and their use within a hydraulic system. (Cartridge valves, Check Valves, Pilot Operated Check Valves, Unload Valves, Flow Control Valves, Over Center Valves, Relief Valves, Directional Control Valves).- Oil Filtration, design and selection of hydraulic filters.- Often overlooked critical factors of a hydraulic system. - Design of hydraulic cylinders, cylinder tolerances and cushioning.- Reservoir Design.- Oil Compression and de-compression circuits.- Pressure Intensification within a hydraulic system and how to protect a system.- Systems: - Operating cylinders in parallel and series. - Circulating oil. - Double pump system. - Regenerating system. - Fast Approach, slow press system. - Hydrostatic drives, closed and open loop systems including motor selection.
You will be provided the necessary formulae with detailed examples to determine:- Pressure required to move a cylinder for a given load.- Cylinder selection, rod diameter and cylinder wall thickness.- Flow rates.- Number cap screws required for cylinder cap end.- Required pump flow rate and return line flow rate.- Power requirements to drive the pump.- Hydraulic hose selection, suction line diameter, pressure line diameter, return line diameter.- Pressure intensification.- Filter sizing - pressure and return line.- Valve sizing.- Compression of oil and requirements for a decompression system.- Reservoir sizing.- Accumulator selection.- Hydrostatic drive motor selection.
Note: Although the principles taught in this course are generally applicable, the material and calculations are demonstrated for a given set of parameters, the materials used for cylinder manufacture, oil viscosity or composition and local conditions must all be factored in to the calculations when designing a system. A professional mechanical engineer must review designs due to potential danger to lives and property.
This lecture is an introduction to the Advanced Hydraulic course and presents an introduction to the SI unit system.
This lecture will cover the necessity of a decompression system and off design solutions for a decompression system. A decompression system is required if 0,5 litres, or more has been compressed in a cylinder. Demonstrating that pumps supply flow rate and are unable to supply pressure. Oil taking the line of least resistance when extending two cylinders, with different diameters.
This lecture covers the compressibility of oil and the method designing a decompression system for a cylinder when using manually controlled directional valves.
This lecture presents an example decompression circuit for an electrically controlled system.
This lecture presents recommendations for hydraulic fluid handling and filter grading in relation filterability for hydraulic oil.
This lecture presents how the flow path through a filter is indicated and the importance of pressure line filters and the return line filters in a system.
This lectures presents the formulas and how to determining the number of set screws to secure the cylinder cap end cover
This lecture presents a method of using and implementing Tolerances in machining Cylinder parts.
This lecture covers flow dividers and how they can be used so cylinders can move together. Circuitry is presented incorporating a flow divider.
This lecture covers the design of hydraulic reservoirs and hydraulic power units.
This lecture presents the steps to correctly design a hydraulic system, how to determine flow rates, pipe sizes for intake and pressure lines and power requirements.
This lecture covers the operation and use of check valves and cartridge valves.
This lecture covers the use of cartridge valves to control a cylinder.
This lecture presents pilot operated check valves. Showing the function and use of a pilot operated check valve in a system as a safety device.
This lecture covers flow control valves. Various methods of controlling the speed of a cylinders with flow control valves. Bleed-Off Method. Meter-In Method. Meter-Out Method. The meter out method is the best, but there is the possibility of causing pressure intensification in the annulus area, (the area around the piston rod). A person must ensure the cylinder wall thickness can withstand the intensified the pressure if a meter-out method of cylinder speed control is used.
This lecture presents the challenge of pressure intensification, this can happen when a cylinder supporting a vertical load and oil bypasses the seal. Design proposals are provided on how to protect cylinders from pressure intensification.
This lecture covers the various types of directional control valves: lever operated directional control valve, solenoid controlled valves and pilot operated directional control valves.
This lecture covers relief valves and pilot operated relief valves. Animated drawings show the functions of the relief valves plus venting of the relief valves.
This lecture covers the operation of unload valves and how they may be used in hydraulic circuits.
This lecture covers The complete design of a fast approach and a slow pressing speed using a double pump System and the unloading valve.
This lecture demonstrates a displacement cylinder and the function of a regenerating system.
This lecture presents a complete design of a regenerating system with a 48-ton load.
This lecture presents a complete design of a regenerating system with a 45-ton load. This system varies from the previous one as it does not follow the “normal” steps. There is the variation of the area ratio which changes the return flow rate and the flow rate of the “normal sizing” of the directional valve.
This lecture covers the use of overcentre valves and their use in a hydraulic systems.
This lecture present the method of using the hydraulic motor catalogue when designing hydraulic motor systems. For this exercise, sections from the Hydromatik bent axis piston motor catalogue will be used. The winch load is 200 Nm, 950 rpm, estimated working pressure of 290 bar.
This lecture presents the closed loop hydrostatic drive and the important use of inline filters.
This lecture presents animated hydraulic motor circuits.
This lecture presents the method of using a hydraulic motor catalogue when designing hydraulic motor systems. For this exercise, sections from the Hydromatic Bent Axis Piston Motor catalogue will be used.
This lecture presents the method of using a hydraulic motor catalogue when designing Hydraulic Motor Systems. For this exercise, sections from the Hydromatic Bent Axis Piston Motor catalogue will be used.
For this exercise, sections from the Hydromatic Bent Axis Piston Motor catalogue will be used.
This lecture presents the method of using hydraulic motor catalogue when designing Hydraulic Motor Systems. For this exercise, sections from the Hydromatic Bent Axis Piston Motor catalogue will be used.
This lecture presents the use of an accumulator to assist the pump for the initial fast approach of a cylinder.
This lecture presents a design for a system to allow hydraulic fluid to circulate from the cylinder lines when the directional valve is at such a distance the hydraulic is unable to circulate to the reservoir.
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