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This document contains 5 questions regarding pneumatic circuits. It includes calculations for air consumption rates, pressures, times to consume volumes of air, and redesigns of pneumatic circuits using components like cylinders, directional control valves, and loads. Diagrams are provided with some questions to illustrate the pneumatic systems being analyzed. Calculations are shown with the questions and involve properties of the components like cylinder diameters, strokes, pressures, temperatures, and cycle rates.

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Tutorial Pneumatic Circuit

This document contains 5 questions regarding pneumatic circuits. It includes calculations for air consumption rates, pressures, times to consume volumes of air, and redesigns of pneumatic circuits using components like cylinders, directional control valves, and loads. Diagrams are provided with some questions to illustrate the pneumatic systems being analyzed. Calculations are shown with the questions and involve properties of the components like cylinder diameters, strokes, pressures, temperatures, and cycle rates.

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Tutorial Pneumatic Circuit

Question 1 A single acting cylinder with a 44.5 mm diameter and 152 mm stroke drives a power tool using 687 kPa gage and 27 oC. If the cylinder reciprocates at 30 cycles/min, a) Determine the air-consumption rate. [0.054m3/min] b) Let the temperature is assumed to be constant during the reciprocating process, find the percentage error due to this simplification. [2.35%] c) How long will it take to consume 100 m3 of free air? [30.86 hours] d) For the system shown in Figure 1, what happen to the cylinder when the manual shutoff valve V1 is opened? [Please use standard atmospheric conditions 101 kPa and 20oC]

Figure 1

Question 2 a) The 50 mm diameter piston of the pneumatic cylinder of Figure 2 retracts 130 mm from its present position (P1 = 2 bars gage, V1 = 300 cm3) due to the external load on the rod. If the port at the blank end of the cylinders is blocked, find the new pressure; assume the pressure does not change. [19 bars]

Figure 2 b) A single acting air cylinder with a 6-cm-diameter piston and 30-cm stroke operates at 700 kPa gage pressure and reciprocates at 30 cycles/min. Compute the air consumption in standard m3/min. [0.203m3/min]. c) How long will it take to consume 100 m3 of free air in Question 2(b)? [8.21 hours] d) The pneumatic system in Figure 3 is designed to lift and lower two loads using singleacting cylinders connected in parallel. If the load in cylinder 1 is larger than the load on cylinder 2 (F1>F2), what will happen when the directional control valve is shifted to the lift mode? [Please use standard atmospheric conditions 101 kPa and 20oC]

Figure 3

Question 3 a) The cylinder of Figure 2 in Question 2 has a locked position (V1 = constant), P1 = 2 bars gage, and T1 = 25 oC. If the temperature increases to 70 oC, what is the new pressure in the blank end? fig. 13-6 [2.45 bars] b) A double acting air cylinder with a 50 mm diameter piston and a 2.5 cm stroke operates at 600 kPa gage pressure and reciprocates at 80 cycles/min. Determine the time it takes to consume 100 m3 of standard atmospheric air. [30.3 hours] c) If the cylinder in Question 3(b) with the same geometry is replaced by single acting cylinder, determine the time it takes to consume 100 m3 of standard atmospheric air. [60.6 hours] d) From Figure 3 in Question 2, redesign the system by adding control valve so that the cylinders will extend and retract together (synchronized with the same speed) [Please use standard atmospheric conditions 101 kPa and 20oC]

Question 4 a) Gas at 80 bars gage and 50 oC is contained in the 1290 cm3 cylinder of Figure 4. A piston compresses the volume to 1000 cm3 while the gas is heated to 120 oC. What is the final pressure in the cylinder? [126 bars]

Figure 4

b) A rotary vane air motor has a displacement volume of 80 cm3/rev and operates at 1750 rpm using 700 kPa gage pressure air. Calculate the standard m3/min rate of air consumption. Assume the temperature remains constant. [1.1m3/min]. c) Calculate the power output of the motor in Question 4(b). [1.63 kW] [Please use standard atmospheric conditions 101 kPa and 20oC]

Question 5 a) A single-acting air cylinder with a 40 mm diameter bore and 20 cm stroke operates at 550 kPa and cycles at 100 cycles/min. (Assume the temperature is constant). Compute i) ii) iii) The consumption of free air in m3/min. [0.161m3/min] How long will it take to consume 100 m3 of free air. [10.35 hours] The consumption of the free air if the temperature of workstation is 42 oC. [0.15m3/min]

[Please use standard atmospheric conditions 101 kPa and 20 oC]

b) For the system as shown in Figure 5, the cylinder is free (both cylinder ends vented to the atmosphere) in the spring-offset position of the directional control valves, V1 and V2. Redesign the system using the same components to accomplish the following operations: i) ii) iii) iv) The cylinder rod moves left when only V1 is actuated. The cylinder rod moves right when only V2 is actuated. The cylinder rod stop moving when both valves are un-actuated. The cylinder is free when both valves are actuated.

Figure 5

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