Abstract:
A method of controlling a hydraulic system having a variable displacement pump operatively coupled to an engine. The method includes detecting a speed of the engine, and determining a desired power value of the pump. The method also includes identifying an allowable power value that may be expended by the pump at the detected speed. The method also includes selecting a pump power value. The selected pump power value is the lower of the allowable power value and the desired power value. The method further includes adjusting the pump to deliver the selected pump power value.
Abstract:
A pumping system comprising a motor, wherein the motor has an operating speed, a pump coupled to the motor, wherein the pump has a volumetric displacement, a fluid end coupled to the pump, wherein the fluid end is operable to draw fluid from an input and provide fluid to an output, and a control system operable to regulate the motor and the pump in order to provide fluid to the output at a selected pressure and flow rate within a continuous range of pressures and flow rates between the peak horsepower output and peak torque output of the motor.
Abstract:
A method of controlling a compressor in a transport temperature control unit having a prime mover providing power to the compressor. The compressor has a power requirement that varies depending on loading conditions. The method includes determining the maximum power available from the prime mover, determining the power requirement of the compressor, and adjusting the loading conditions of the compressor so that the power requirement of the compressor substantially equals the maximum power available from the prime mover. Preferably, the method includes starting the compressor at a low speed, varying the suction pressure as permitted by the maximum amount of power available until the suction pressure reaches a maximum suction pressure setting, and after the suction pressure reaches a maximum suction pressure setting, increasing the speed of the compressor as permitted by the maximum-amount of power available.
Abstract:
A control device for an axial piston machine in which the rocker controlling the angular orientation of the cylinder drum is shifted by a differential-action setting piston having a pin which engages in the rocker. The opposite end of this pin bears via a pressure body on one arm of a bell crank lever which can have a curved camming surface, the pressure body including a roller and being urged by a first spring against the bell crank lever. The other arm of the bell crank lever is engaged on one side by a control piston subjected to the pump pressure while the valve member which controls the pressure to the large-diameter side of the setting piston engages the opposite side of the bell crank lever and is urged against this opposite side by a second spring.
Abstract:
Embodiments of a system, controller, and method for operating a plurality of pumps for a turbine driven fracturing pump system used in hydraulic fracturing are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of operating a plurality of pumps associated with a hydraulic fracturing system includes receiving a demand Hydraulic Horse Power (HHP) signal. The demand HHP signal may include the Horse Power (HP) required for the hydraulic fracturing system to operate and may include consideration for frictional and other losses. The method further includes operating available pump units at a percentage of rating below Maximum Continuous Power (MCP) level, based at least in part on the demand HHP signal. Furthermore, the method may include receiving a signal for loss of power from one or more pump units. The method further includes operating one or more units at MCP level and operating one or more pump units at Maximum Intermittent Power (MIP) level to meet the demand HHP signal.
Abstract:
A hybrid or battery type working machine including a hydraulic pump, an electric motor, an electric storage device, and a control device which controls a pump absorption horsepower maximum value in accordance with an amount of electricity stored in the electric storage device. The control device reduces the pump absorption horsepower maximum value by dividing the pump absorption horsepower maximum value into a plurality of regions having different target flow rates, and reduces the pump absorption horsepower maximum value from an old pump absorption horsepower maximum value corresponding to the pump absorption horsepower maximum value which has not yet been reduced to a new pump absorption horsepower maximum value corresponding to the pump absorption horsepower maximum value which has been reduced, so that temporal differences among the regions can increase in a descending order of a target flow rate.
Abstract:
A method for controlling a drive unit mechanically connected to a reciprocating linear-motion double-acting pump includes the use of speed-regulating control during the phase in which the piston is moving in just one direction, ascent (109) or descent (102), and the use of torque-regulating control immediately after the reversal (107, 114) of the direction of travel. The method is applicable to a control device and to a drive unit mechanically connected to a reciprocating linear-motion double-acting pump.
Abstract:
A method for controlling a drive unit mechanically connected to a reciprocating linear-motion double-acting pump includes the use of speed-regulating control during the phase in which the piston is moving in just one direction, ascent (109) or descent (102), and the use of torque-regulating control immediately after the reversal (107, 114) of the direction of travel. The method is applicable to a control device and to a drive unit mechanically connected to a reciprocating linear-motion double-acting pump.
Abstract:
A fluid power pumping apparatus having a control system for limiting the power loading thereon to the power available from a motor (172) driving the apparatus, includes a variable displacement rotating piston pump (170). A compensating valve assembly (174) of a type known in the prior art is mounting on the pump. The compensating valve controls flow volume through the pump in response to pressure at an outlet (176) of the compensating valve. The outlet is connected to a variable load limiting control (180). The load limiting control includes a low flow adjustment which varies according to the position of a cam (186) which is connected to the swash plate of the pump, and a high-flow cut-off. The load limiting control reaches higher operating pressures while operating within the power delivery capabilities of the motor. Both the low flow adjustment and high-flow cut-off are manually adjustable to tailor the pump to the operating characteristics of the motor.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a power control device for two variable displacement pumps, each with an adjusting device which can be acted upon by adjusting pressure, a power control valve associated therewith, which is acted upon by a first control pressure corresponding with the operating pressure of the variable displacement pump to be adjusted against a pressure difference in the direction of the control position, in which the adjusting pressure loading is controlled in the direction of reduced displacement of the variable displacement pumps along a hyperbolic control curve, whereby the pressure difference results from a spring-arrangement backpressure counteracting the first control pressure and a second control pressure corresponding with the operating pressure of the other variable displacement pump and with increase of the same drops from a maximum value to a minimum value. In order to set the latter value with the device, it is provided in accordance with the invention that the spring arrangement comprises a first and a second pressure spring, the first pressure spring is set to a force corresponding with the minimum value (.DELTA.p.sub.min) and the second pressure spring is set to a force corresponding with the difference (.DELTA.p.sub.max -.DELTA.p.sub.min) between maximum value (.DELTA.p.sub.max) and minimum value (.DELTA.p.sub.min) of the pressure difference, and the first pressure spring with its setting force and the second pressure spring with a force decreasing with increasing second control pressure act upon the power control valve.