[EN] During the filling process in pressurized hydraulic systems, sudden pressure changes generated inside the pipes can cause significant damage. To avoid these excessive overpressures, air valves should be installed to ...
Romero García-Consuegra, Guillermo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-07-09)
[ES] Al realizar maniobras de llenado y de vaciado en los sistemas hidráulicos a presión, se generan en el interior de las tuberías unos cambios bruscos de presión que pueden provocar importantes daños. Para evitar alcanzar ...
Iglesias Rey, Pedro Luis; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; García-Mares, Francisco-José; Martínez-Solano, F. Javier(Instituto Mexicano de Tecnologia del Agua, 2016)
[ES] El objetivo del trabajo es estudiar en detalle el comportamiento
real de diferentes ventosas (válvulas de admisión y
expulsión de aire). La primera parte del trabajo describe
las diferentes técnicas experimentales ...
[EN] The present paper summarizes the results obtained in air release and admission tests in air valves with diameter between 50 and 150 mm. The pressure-flow curves are presented and the pressure values at which dynamic ...
Iglesias Rey, Pedro Luis; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; García Mares, Francisco José; Martínez-Solano, F. Javier(Elsevier, 2014)
This work aims to study in detail the methods of experimental characterization of air valves. In the first part, different experimental
techniques are compared to the measurements made in the Air Valves Test Bench built ...
Ramos, Helena M.; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Tasca, Elias; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Besharat, Mohsen; Zhou, Ling; Karney, Bryan(MDPI AG, 2022-08)
[EN] The risks associated with unsteady two-phase flows in pressurized pipe systems must be considered both in system design and operation. To this end, this paper summarizes experimental tests and numerical analyses that ...
García Mares, Francisco José(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-10-20)
[ES] En la operación de las redes hidráulicas a presión uno de los mayores causantes de problemas es el aire atrapado en las mismas. Problemas que pueden tener en ocasiones consecuencias fatales para la integridad de la ...
Bergant, Anton; Kruisbrink, Arno; Arregui de la Cruz, Francisco(ASSOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS TECHNICIANS SLOVENIA, 2012)
[EN] This paper describes an experimental programme on the dynamic behaviour of air valves performed in a large-scale pipeline apparatus.
Dynamic flow tests were performed at large (full) scale, since previous quasi-steady ...
Aguirre-Mendoza, Andrés M.; Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Oyuela, Sebastián; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Besharat, Mohsen; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Iglesias Rey, Pedro Luís; Ramos, Helena M.(MDPI AG, 2022-03)
[EN] The sizing of air valves during the air expulsion phase in rapid filling processes is crucial for design purposes. Mathematical models have been developed to simulate the behaviour of air valves during filling processes ...
[EN] Recently, emptying processes have been studied in experimental facilities in pipelines, but there is a lack regarding applications in actual pipelines, which permits establishing the risk of collapse because of ...
[ES] Debido a las bolsas de aire que hay en el interior de las tuberías durante los procesos de llenado y vaciado, se producen depresiones o sobrepresiones en el interior de las mismas, capaces de producir serios daños en ...
Coronado-Hernández, Oscar Enrique; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Besharat, Mohsen; Ramos, Helena M.(Associacao Portuguesa dos Recursos Hidricos, 2019-12)
[EN] Water filling processes in pipes generate overpressures that must be considered so that the facilities do not fail during their operation. The filling manoeuvres with air trapped in water pipes have been studied by ...
Grisales Morales, David Eduardo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-11-15)
[ES] Las operaciones de llenado y vaciado, el aire disuelto bajo condiciones normales de operación de una conducción o las roturas, crean bolsas de aire que producen problemas críticos a lo largo de la conducción capaces ...
Fuertes Miquel, Vicente Samuel; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo; Martínez-Solano, F. Javier; López-Patiño, Gonzalo(NRC Research Press (Canadian Science Publishing), 2016-12)
[EN] This work considers the behaviour of air inside pipes when the air is expelled through air valves. Generally, the air shows isothermal behaviour. Nevertheless, when the transient is very fast, it shows adiabatic ...
[EN] Emptying pipelines can be critical in many water pipelines because subatmospheric pressure troughs are reached due to the expansion of entrapped air, which could cause considerable damage to the system depending on ...
Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Pérez-Sánchez, Modesto; Ramos, Helena M.(MDPI AG, 2024-10-22)
[EN] Air exchange in pressurized water pipelines is an essential but complex aspect of pipeline modeling and operation. Implementing effective air management strategies can yield numerous benefits, enhancing the system¿s ...
[EN] The draining operation involves the presence of entrapped air pockets, which are expanded
during the phenomenon occurrence generating drops of sub-atmospheric pressure pulses. Vacuum
air valves should inject enough ...
[EN] Air pockets generated during emptying operations in pressurized hydraulic systems cause
significant pressure drops inside pipes. To avoid these sudden pressure changes, one of the most
widely used methods involves the ...
Carlos Alberola, María del Mar; Arregui de la Cruz, Francisco; Cabrera Marcet, Enrique; Palau, C.V.(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
[EN] Water transients with entrapped air can originate large pressure peaks that can severely damage distribution networks. Entrapped air can have a damping or amplifying effect on these undesirable pressure peaks. ...