{"title":"Experimental Investigation of an Automotive Air Conditioning System Using R444A and R152a Refrigerants as Alternatives of R134a","authors":"M. Di̇rek, M. S. Mert, Eren Soylu, F. Yüksel","doi":"10.5545/sv-jme.2019.6040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5545/sv-jme.2019.6040","url":null,"abstract":"The European Union brings some restrictions to the use of some refrigerants, which has been higher than 150 global warming potential (GWP) value, in mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems as in directive no 2006/40/EC [1]. Then these GWP limits were extended air conditioning and refrigeration systems with regulation the Regulation (EU) No, 517/2014 [2]. Presently, most of the MAC systems use R134a as the refrigerant; however, the GWP value of the R134a is 1300 [3] and [4]. The refrigerants such as R1234yf, R1234ze(E), R152a and R444A, can be considered as alternative refrigerants having low GWP for automotive air conditioning systems. Table 1 shows the thermophysical properties of the above-mentioned refrigerants. Among them, R1234ze(E) can be used instead of R134a due to the their similar properties [5]. However, the cooling performance of R1234ze(E) is 30 % lower in average than that of R134a when used in a similar medium capacity vapor compression system [6] to [8]. Furthermore, the performance of R1234ze(E) can be improved when the mixture of some refrigerants used to obtain required properties. The R444A consists of 83 % R1234ze(E), 12 % R32 and 5 % R152a, (by mass) and its GWP value is 93 [4] and [9] which meets the European regulations. Devecioğlu and Oruç [10] calculated the performance parameters of R1234yf, R444A and R445A for a MAC system. It was found that the R444A and R445A have lower cooling capacity, but higher coefficient of performance (COP) than that of R1234yf. Lee et al. [11] investigated the performance of R444A, R445A, R152a, and R1234yf in an automotive air conditioning (AAC) system as an alternative to R134a. The highest COP was obtained when the system was working with R152a. Cheng et al. [9] tested an air source heat pump (HP) system using the different concentrations of R32/R1234ze(E) mixture numerically. It was determined that the heating and cooling capacities were improved compared to the R134a baseline system. Meng et al. [12] determined the performance of a refrigeration system using the mixture of R152a and R1234ze(E) refrigerants as an alternative to R134a. The mixture of 50 % R1234ze(E) and 50 % R152a was found to be the best alternative for R134a. It was demonstrated that the cooling capacity of R1234ze(E)/R152a mixture was very similar to R134a and can be used without any change in the compressor. Li et al. [13] reported that R134a Experimental Investigation of an Automotive Air Conditioning System Using R444A and R152a Refrigerants as Alternatives of R134a Direk, M. – Mert, M.S. – Soylu, E. – Yüksel, F. Mehmet Direk* – Mehmet Selçuk Mert – Eren Soylu – Fikret Yüksel Yalova University, Faculty of Engineering, Turkey","PeriodicalId":135907,"journal":{"name":"Strojniški vestnik – Journal of Mechanical Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128951799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feature Enhancement Method for Drilling Vibration Signal by Using Wavelet Packet Multi-band Spectral Subtraction","authors":"Youhang Zhou, Yong Li, Hanjiang Liu","doi":"10.5545/SV-JME.2018.5726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5545/SV-JME.2018.5726","url":null,"abstract":"According to the change in contact position between the drill edge and the workpiece, drilling machining is classified into three stages, namely, drilling guide, drilling, and drilling out [1]. In the monitoring of drilling, the signal features corresponding to the previous stage are extracted, and the mapping model is established to monitor the drilling process [2]. This can lay a theoretical foundation for realizing highprecision drilling quality analysis; the premise is how to achieve feature enhancement by implementing signal de-noising effectively in a complicated drilling environment. As it is an advanced sensor-and-signal processing technology, a growing number of scholars have been extensively adopting various kinds of sensors to ascertain the drilling process and drilling quality. The monitoring and prediction of tool wear and breakage in drilling are mainly done indirectly through thrust force [3] to [5]. Ferreiro et al. [6] and [7] and Peña et al. [8] completed the burr monitoring by extracting the features from the spindle torque signal in the drilling process. Ramirez et al. [9] established a temperature model for the drilling tool and combined the cutting force signal and temperature signal characteristics to evaluate the surface quality of the drilled surface. Xiao et al. [10] via constructing a valuable indicator, i.e., the wavelet energy ratio around the natural frequency of boring bar vibration signal to monitor tool wear and surface finish quality for deep hole boring, developed a method to monitor and evaluate tool wear during drilling through the monitoring of vibration and acoustic emission signals [11] and [12]. It is well known that the key to achieving the quality monitoring of drilling is to extract abnormal features from the monitoring signals, but the signal features representing drilling quality are often very weak, so it is necessary to pre-process the signal to intensify its features. The above researches on abnormal state monitoring and diagnosis during the machining process can be divided into two classifications: extracting the evident features of monitoring signals to determine abnormal tool damage and drilling quality, and ascertaining the tool wear and the quality of drilling trends by anatomizing the overall monitoring signal. The results of these studies have good guidance significance to ensure high-precision drilling quality. However, they cannot predict or inform when and where tool breakage and quality is abnormal. Therefore, it is of great necessity to ascertain the feature extraction problem of the drilling process signal, establish a mapping model of the monitoring signal and the drilling process, and accurately identify the time and location of abnormal Feature Enhancement Method for Drilling Vibration Signals by Using Wavelet Packet Multi-band Spectral Subtraction Zhou, Y. – Li, Y. – Liu, H. Youhang Zhou1,2,* – Yong Li1 – Hanjiang Liu1 1Xiangtan University, School of Mechanical Engineering, China 2X","PeriodicalId":135907,"journal":{"name":"Strojniški vestnik – Journal of Mechanical Engineering","volume":"24 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133846435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on Surface Roughness of Hardox Steels Parts Machined by Abrasive Waterjet","authors":"A. Filip, C. Morariu, L. Mihail, G. Oancea","doi":"10.5545/SV-JME.2019.5998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5545/SV-JME.2019.5998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":135907,"journal":{"name":"Strojniški vestnik – Journal of Mechanical Engineering","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124707784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Functionality assessment of building a micro-climate system utilising solar energy in a cold climate","authors":"K. Januševičius, Juozas Bielskus, V. Martinaitis","doi":"10.5545/SV-JME.2018.5910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5545/SV-JME.2018.5910","url":null,"abstract":"In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) Assembly approved the sustainable development agenda [1]. According to this agenda, member countries must take action in order to improve the sustainability of the planet. Goals up until the year 2030 were set. Multiple aspects of the 17 sustainable development goals determined by the UN were aimed at increasing the utilisation of renewable energy and improving energy efficiency [2]. It is clear that these goals could only be met by using complex measures, in terms of the most influential consumers, i.e. the built environment, due to its high environmental impact [3]. In EU households, heating and hot water alone account for 79 % (in industry 70.6 %) of total final energy consumption. Thus, it is important to focus on heating demands [4]. Approximately 84 % of heating and cooling is still generated from fossil fuels, while only 16 % is generated from renewable energy. In order to fulfil the EU’s climate and energy goals, the heating and cooling sector must sharply reduce its energy consumption and decrease its use of fossil fuels [5]. Integrated design efficiency and final product quality are highly dependent on primary actions at the initial stages of any project. According to value engineering principles [6], a function could be satisfied in different ways that allow for different performances. Those aspects determine the pathway characterized by [7], which specified that alternatives should be considered at the initial stage of design. In this phase, solutions can be integrated at the lowest resource cost. In this context, the cost of considering different design alternatives becomes an important aspect of an efficient design process. When designing sustainable buildings, passive and active energy conservation solutions, in combination with renewable energy utilisation, play an important role. The primary function of a complex microclimate Functionality Assessment of Building a Microclimate System Utilising Solar Energy in a Cold Climate Januševičius, K. – Bielskus, J. – Martinaitis, V. Karolis Januševičius1,* – Juozas Bielskus2 – Vytautas Martinaitis1 1 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Lithuania 2 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Civil Engineering Research Centre, Lithuania","PeriodicalId":135907,"journal":{"name":"Strojniški vestnik – Journal of Mechanical Engineering","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131928030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kaikai Luo, Yong Wang, Hou-lin Liu, M. Dular, Jie Chen, Zi-long Zhang
{"title":"Effect of Coating Thickness on a Solid-Liquid Two-Phase Flow Centrifugal Pump under Water Medium","authors":"Kaikai Luo, Yong Wang, Hou-lin Liu, M. Dular, Jie Chen, Zi-long Zhang","doi":"10.5545/SV-JME.2018.5865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5545/SV-JME.2018.5865","url":null,"abstract":"Spraying a coating on the surface of wet parts of a solid-liquid two-phase flow centrifugal pump could effectively increase its service life. To research the effect of coating thickness on the performance of the pump, a solid-liquid two-phase flow pump with a speed of n s = 81.5 was chosen, and polyurethane coatings with different thicknesses were sprayed on the surface of the blades of the impeller. The influence of coating thickness on the performance of the pump was tested under the condition of a water medium. Combined with numerical simulation, the internal flow, pressure fluctuations and radial force of the model pump were further analysed in detail. Keeping the blade outlet angle unchanged, the head and efficiency of the pump decrease with the increase of the coating thickness, and the amplitude of the decrease increases with the increase of the coating thickness. The peak value of pressure fluctuations increases with the increase of coating thickness. The pressure value on the impeller inlet increases first and then decreases with the increase of coating thickness. Radial force of impeller increases with the increase of coating thickness, and the radial force distributes in the triangle, which is the same as the number of blades.","PeriodicalId":135907,"journal":{"name":"Strojniški vestnik – Journal of Mechanical Engineering","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130159892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Active Structural Derivator in the Design Crystallization Phase of L7e Vehicle Structures","authors":"Roman Pawel Jedrzejczyk, M. Alb","doi":"10.5545/sv-jme.2018.5788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5545/sv-jme.2018.5788","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":135907,"journal":{"name":"Strojniški vestnik – Journal of Mechanical Engineering","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122993121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Velibor Karanović, M. Jocanović, S. Baloš, D. Knežević, I. Macuzic
{"title":"Impact of Contaminated Fluid on the Working Performances\u0000of Hydraulic Directional Control Valves","authors":"Velibor Karanović, M. Jocanović, S. Baloš, D. Knežević, I. Macuzic","doi":"10.5545/sv-jme.2018.5856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5545/sv-jme.2018.5856","url":null,"abstract":"0 INTRODUCTION It is very difficult to predict and precisely determine the impact of fluid cleanliness on the system operation or its components, due to many factors and a variety of hydraulic system applications. The hydraulic fluid contamination is an issue that can shorten the working life of hydraulic components, which has a direct impact on maintenance costs [1] to [3]. Also, contamination can be considered as a hydraulic system “intruder”, which has a direct or indirect influence on system behaviour and parameters such as precision, response time, repeatability, controllability, etc. [4] and [5]. Many well-regarded companies and other institutions dealing with manufacturing, maintenance and testing of hydraulic systems and equipment, based on their own experience from practice and experimental research, claim that the working fluid contamination represents the main cause of failures in 70 % to 80 % cases [2] and [6] to [9]. Additionally, the requirements for more precise control and higher efficiency of hydraulic systems, have resulted in the decreased clearances between working elements of hydraulic components and the increased working pressure values [10]. Due to the decreased clearance size, the adverse impact of micron-size solid contaminants becomes evident. Although it is wellknown that solid contaminants are destructive to hydraulic system components, as well as to the working fluid itself, there was no internationally accepted method for objectively determination of contamination tolerance for systems or each component separately [11], until 2017. In 2013, was initiated and consequently published ISO 12669:2017 standard, developed for determining the required cleanliness level (RCL) for a system [12]. This standard is now under review for five years period. Due to the lack of a standard procedure, the RCL choice is based on the system designer experience or on the third person recommendation (such as components manufacturer) and his experience. This doesn’t mean that optimal cleanliness level was selected for the specific system operation. The RCL selection by this method is strongly subjective, for which reason it does not provide consistency. Consequently, many system designers, as well as the users of hydraulic systems, are unsure and confused about the appropriate cleanliness level Impact of Contaminated Fluid on the Working Performances of Hydraulic Directional Control Valves Karanović, V. – Jocanović, M. – Baloš, S. – Knežević, D. – Mačužić, I. Velibor Karanović1,* – Mitar Jocanović1 – Sebastian Baloš1 – Darko Knežević2 – Ivan Mačužić3 1University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia 2University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Bosnia and Herzegovina 3University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Engineering, Serbia","PeriodicalId":135907,"journal":{"name":"Strojniški vestnik – Journal of Mechanical Engineering","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114861063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}