Jet Control Device Deflecting High Velocity Fluid Jets
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Solution Overview
Problem
High velocity fluid jets generated in systems like plasma compressing systems can escape and cause damage to equipment or performance issues by entering neighboring systems, necessitating control over their intensity and direction.
Innovation Solution
A jet control device is used to inject a jet deflector material, which can be in liquid, solid, or pellet form, into the space where the fluid jet is formed, disrupting or deflecting it away from selected locations using injectors, extruders, or pellet drivers, ensuring the fluid jet does not reach critical areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If high velocity fluid jets are generated in plasma compressing systems, then plasma compression performance is improved, but the fluid jets can escape and cause damage to equipment or enter neighboring systems
Solution Approach 1:
A jet deflector material is introduced as an intermediary substance between the high velocity fluid jet and the equipment to be protected. The deflector material intercepts and redirects the jet, preventing direct contact with sensitive components while allowing the jet generation process to continue at full power for plasma compression
Solution Approach 2:
The jet deflector material is positioned in advance at the anticipated path of the fluid jet to preemptively counteract the harmful effect. By placing the deflector before the jet reaches critical areas, the system prevents damage before it can occur rather than responding after damage happens
2Object-affected harmful factors
If jet deflector material is injected to disrupt or deflect the fluid jet, then protection of selected locations is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional injecting means
Solution Approach 1:
The system utilizes the existing fluid dynamics and pressure conditions within the plasma compressing system to facilitate the injection of jet deflector material. By leveraging available pressure differentials and flow patterns, the system reduces the need for complex external pressurization and control mechanisms
Solution Approach 2:
The jet deflector material serves multiple functions: it deflects harmful jets, protects equipment, and can be integrated with existing system components. The same material injection mechanism can potentially serve multiple protection zones or work with different types of fluid jets, reducing overall system complexity through multi-functionality
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively prevents or redirects high speed fluid jets from reaching sensitive components, reducing the risk of damage and maintaining system performance by ensuring the fluid jet is disrupted or deflected before it can cause harm.
Implementation Method 1
inject the jet deflector material in such a manner that the fluid jet forming at the jet formation location is disrupted or deflected away from the selected location
Data Source
AI summary
Examples of a jet control device are described. The jet control device can comprise a jet deflecting member that is configured to intercept and/or collide with a high speed jet emerging from a jet formation location. The interaction of the jet deflecting member and the jet can cause the high speed jet to be dispersed into a plurality of jets with a number of flow directions which may be sideways to an initial direction of the high speed jet. In one embodiment the deflecting member can include a liquid guide formed by injecting a fluid out of an outlet nozzle so that the liquid guide extends longitudinally away from the outlet nozzle. In another embodiment the deflecting member can include an array of solid pellets injected through an outlet in a direction of the emerging high speed jet and configured to collide with the emerging jet thereby deflecting its initial direction.