Pressure Vessel Assembly With Common Valve Interconnection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing pressure vessel systems with multiple vessels are technically complex due to the need for individual valves on each vessel, leading to increased complexity and potential inefficiencies in pressure and temperature management.
Innovation Solution
A centralized valve arrangement connects multiple pressure vessels fluidically, allowing a single valve to manage pressure and temperature across all vessels, eliminating the need for individual valves and simplifying the system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple pressure vessels are used to increase storage capacity, then fuel storage capacity and space utilization are improved, but system complexity increases due to the need for individual valves on each vessel
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple pressure vessels are connected to a common valve arrangement through tank connectors, merging the valve control function into a single centralized unit. This allows one valve to control fuel flow to multiple vessels, reducing the total number of valves from multiple individual valves to a single shared valve, thereby decreasing system complexity while maintaining the ability to store and manage fuel across multiple vessels.
Solution Approach 2:
The common valve arrangement serves multiple functions: it controls fuel flow to all connected pressure vessels, enables pressure equalization between vessels, and provides a single point for filling and extraction operations. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate valves on each vessel, resolving the contradiction between increased storage capacity and system complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If individual valves are installed on each pressure vessel for independent control, then pressure management flexibility is improved, but device complexity and potential failure points increase
Solution Approach 1:
The valve control function is merged into a single common valve arrangement that serves all pressure vessels. This centralized valve can be configured to control flow to any connected vessel, providing adaptable pressure management without requiring multiple separate valves. The single valve design reduces complexity and potential failure points while maintaining operational flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The valve arrangement is designed to dynamically redirect flow between multiple pressure vessels through a single valve mechanism. This dynamic capability allows the system to adapt pressure management needs by directing fuel flow to different vessels as required, replacing the need for multiple static valves with one versatile, dynamically controllable valve system.
3Device complexity
If pressure vessels are connected through a centralized valve arrangement, then system complexity is reduced, but pressure equalization time may increase
Solution Approach 1:
Tank connectors serve as intermediary components that provide direct fluidic pathways between pressure vessels and the common valve arrangement. These connectors enable rapid pressure equalization by providing short, direct connection paths that minimize flow resistance and equalization time, while the centralized valve arrangement maintains low overall system complexity.
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
This configuration reduces system complexity, enables efficient pressure equalization and temperature monitoring, improves storage capacity and space utilization, and ensures reliable fuel management through centralized control.
Implementation Method 1
a direct pressure exchange is possible between the connected pressure vessels. In a manner which lies opposite the pressure vessels, the valve can be connected
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AI summary
A pressure vessel arrangement includes a plurality of pressure vessels configured to store fuel, and a valve arrangement with at least one valve and a plurality of tank connectors. In the pressure vessel arrangement each pressure vessel of the plurality of pressure vessels is connected to one of the tank connectors. Further, in the pressure vessel arrangement the valve arrangement connects the tank connectors directly to one another and to the at least one valve, such that a fluid exchange which is not impaired at any time by way of a valve is brought about between the individual pressure vessels.