DEVELOPMENT OF FLUIDIC LOGIC START-UP SYSTEM FOR MAIN FORCED DRAFT BLOWERS.

Abstract

A pure fluid automatic start-up system for main forced draft blowers was designed. A breadboard system was developed and evaluated to determine performance characteristics and suitability for naval use in the automatic start-up of auxiliary turbine driven machinery. The breadboard system was constructed from fluidic logic devices. Tests to evaluate the system were conducted with the aid of an analog computer simulation of a main forced draft blower and associated equipment. The results of these tests indicated that a digital logic system constructed of bi-stable fluidic devices could perform satisfactorily the operations required in lighting-off a forced draft blower and bringing it to a condition suitable for transfer to control by an analog control system. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 1967
Accession Number
AD0658499

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  • W. L. Smith

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  • Analog Computers
  • Automatic
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Simulators
  • Control Systems
  • Fluidic Devices
  • Fluidics
  • Logic
  • Logic Devices
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

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