STUDY OF THE CAUSE OF FAILURE OF MAIN ELEMENTS OF THE GATE VALVE AND EFFECTIVE SOLUTION WAYS

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Volume 14.1 (2-1), May 2023, Pages 32-40

Zenfira Huseynli1, Calal Babazade2, Gulnar Hamidova3, Niyaz Zeynalov4

1Associate professor, department of “Industrial Machines”, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, phd in technical sciences, Azerbaijan. Email id: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

2Master, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Mechanical Engineer, Wellmechs Electromechanical Company. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

3Head of the laboratory, department of “Industrial Machines”, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, phd in technical sciences, "Technology and technology for oil production, oil and gas transportation" laboratory junior researcher, Azerbaijan. Email id: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

4Teacher, “Industrial machines” department, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, dissertant, Azerbaijan.  E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ABSTRACT

 All over the world, there is an urgent need for effective fluid control equipment, such needs can be found in foods, drugs, beverages, power generation, and oil and gas industries. Some of the existing equipment for this purpose has certain limitations for effective control of fluid at high pressure condition. Thus, there is a need for design modification to solve the prevailing problem. This paper majorly addressed the case peculiar to the oil and gas industries, where fluid control failure has cost millions of dollars, hazardous environmental effect and also decline in nation’s economy, taking Niger Delta oil spillage as a case study. In this work, computer aided design method (CADM) was utilized to design and perform stress analysis of a high pressure gate valve used on a typical oil and gas wellhead of working pressure up to 15,000 psi. (103.4 MPa). The critical components in the gate valve are the body and gate (disc). Conversional design adopts calculations from analytical method, but in this work, finite element analysis (FEA) was used to determine stresses and deformations distribution on critical components of the high pressure gate valve (HPGV) as they are the main pressure retaining boundaries in the valve. The results obtained from the two methods indicated reasonable convergence after validation. The stress analysis conducted was based on von mises failure criterion which is most suitable for ductile materials. The results obtained from both analytical design calculation and that of finite element analysis indicates reasonable agreements by measuring their percentage performance variance. Therefore, the findings of this research work attests to reliability of the designed HPGV valves in meeting engineering design assessments, and in turn can be optimally advanced in the manufacture of high pressure gate valves.

Key words: Gate valve, analytical method, validation, design and high pressure.