Constant-Fill Turbo Couplings With Valve Control
Constant-Fill Turbo Couplings With Valve Control
P T S
P = Pump wheel
T = Turbine wheel
S = Housing
P T S
■ Utilisation of economically
priced robust and reliable squirrel-cage
motors possible
■ Proven designs for water and ■ Excellent shock and vibration damping
water emulsions characteristics
Load relief during start and overload –
Valve controlled turbo couplings
Type TVF offers excellent soft start and thermal storage capacity.
This is further improved in type TVVF as a result of an enlarged
delay chamber. Type TVVFS offers the highest degree of
start-up relief with an extra storage space in the coupling hous-
ing in addition to the enlarged delay chamber.
Types TVF, TVVF, TVVFS differ regarding the Centrifugally controlled valves make
arrangement and size of the storage spaces. all the difference
A delay chamber whose size can vary at the outer During standstill and while the motor is running
wheel is filled with operating fluid during stand- up, the re-fill valves are open (1). During the
still, while the fluid in the operating chamber is motor start-up, the filling level in the operating
reduced respectively. Result: lower torque during chamber is further reduced compared to the
motor run-up. The bigger the delay chamber, filling level during standstill (2). After a specified
the bigger the relief during start-up, as well as the motor speed is exceeded, the valves close again
thermal storage capacity of the couplings. And (3). Subsequently the contents of the delay
the higher the thermal storage capacity, the higher chamber flow back into the operating chamber
the possible frequency of repeated start-ups. and hence restore full transmission capacity (4).
As soon as the motor speed is forced below a
All variations have two main functions in common: certain switching speed as a result of overload,
■ Re-fill of the operating fluid from the operating the valves open again. Operating fluid is drained
circuit into the delay chamber is control in from the operating chamber. Once the motor
dependence on the speed via centrifugal valves. speed increases owing to reduced load, the valves
■ Draining of the delay chamber and re-filling of close again as soon as the pre-set switching
the operating fluid into the operating chamber speed has been reached, and operating fluid is
can be synchronized to the system conditions again directed into the operating circuit.
via adjustable nozzles. Due to the alternating function of nozzles and
valves, a squirrel-cage motor can be relieved
optimally.
Overcoming poor voltage with ease –
With Voith turbo couplings
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chamber is partly drained. The transmittable torque
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also drops. This relief period allows the motor the
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Engineered reliability.