Spherical Compensator Bolt Plug Thermal Coupling Simulation and Fault Analysis
This paper selects a spherical compensator in a solar thermal power plant project as the research object,and uses ANSYS Workbench software to study the temperature and stress conditions of the spherical compensator under the following three working conditions(working condition 1:the temperature of thermal oil is 293℃and the pressure of thermal oil is 3 MPa,working condition 2:the temperature of thermal oil is 393℃and the pressure of thermal oil is 2 MPa,working condition 3:the temperature of thermal oil is 400℃and the pressure of thermal oil is 4 MPa)when the thermal oil is circulating in the pipeline.In addition,this paper simulates the temperature and stress conditions of the spherical compensator and analyzes the causes of the failure of the spherical compensator that the bolt plug is damaged or even cannot be disassembled smoothly after a period of operation,and opti-mizes the structure of the spherical compensator and simulates the temperature and stress conditions again to verify the rationality of the optimization plan.