Performance improvement of set of worm gears used in soot blower through profile modification
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2024.1360502" target="_blank" >10.3389/fmech.2024.1360502</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Performance improvement of set of worm gears used in soot blower through profile modification
Original language description
The present design of a set of worm gears used in a soot blower produced by a certain manufacturer has an efficiency of 68.8%. A soot blower is one of the most critical components in industrial applications for removing the large amounts of soot generated by boilers and is required to be operational 24x7. The energy consumption of the soot blower depends on its working efficiency and ultimately the design of its set of worm gears. This paper focuses mainly on the design and analysis of available industrial worm-gear sets used in soot blowers. The theoretical, experimental, and finite-element analysis approaches are validated for the stability of the worm gear set under typical input conditions. This paper also describes an analytical design of experiments (DOE) approach to identify the most significant factor for performance (efficiency) improvement and suggests some design improvements for the worm gear set using the profile modification approach. These ensure the efficiency improvement of the current industrial design of the set of worm gears used in a soot blower. The analytical DOE approach helped identify that the number of worm wheel teeth (Z2) and gear module (m) are the two most significant factors affecting performance. Accordingly, based on the improved design, the final efficiency increased from 68.8% to 74.6% (similar to 8.5% increment), resulting in lower power consumption during industrial application.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20300 - Mechanical engineering
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering - Switzerland
ISSN
2297-3079
e-ISSN
2297-3079
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
MAY 17 2024
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
17
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UT code for WoS article
001236348100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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