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In high-speed rotational machinery such as pumps or compressors, contactless seals are commonly used to separate different fluids or gases and pressure levels. However, the presence of a leakage flow through the seal gap exerts forces on a rotor. These can culminate in stiffening, restoring, and damping effects as well as in unstable, self-excited vibrational behavior. The Jeffcott rotor model and rotordynamic seal coefficients are put under investigation to prevent instability in the rotating machinery and to determine the rotor-seal systems dynamic behavior. This paper focuses on an experimental methodology, examined on a flexible rotor-seal test rig using an active magnetic bearing for excitation. Coefficient identification problems due to unknown random force (noise) in the experiment are shown and a solution is described in detail and validated on the test rig. The presented methodology leads to a calculation of rotordynamic seal coefficients during safe operating conditions. They are ultimately used to describe the system’s behavior and to predict the onset speed of instability.
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This project is supported by Ludwig Bolkow Campus and funded by the Bavarian government. Good cooperation with the consortium partners is acknowledged.
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Wagner, C., Tsunoda, W., Berninger, T., Thümmel, T., Rixen, D. (2019). Estimation of Rotordynamic Seal Coefficients Using Active Magnetic Bearing Excitation and Force Measurement. In: Fleury, A., Rade, D., Kurka, P. (eds) Proceedings of DINAME 2017. DINAME 2017. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91217-2_1
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