Among all kinds of hydraulic gear pumps, hydraulic gear pump has the advantages of simple structure, compactness, small volume, light weight, good self-priming performance, insensitive to pollution, reliable operation, long service life, convenient maintenance, low cost, and because the gear is a symmetrical rotating body, it allows high-speed rotation and other characteristics, widely used. Machine tool industry, shipbuilding industry, aviation engineering, agricultural machinery.
The development of gear pumps is marked by an increase in pressure levels. Early gear pumps, whether axial (gear face direction) or radial (gear circumference direction) are fixed clearance type, the pressure is less than 10 MPa. In the past 30 years, after the efforts of hydraulic workers, such as the use of axial and radial clearance compensation methods, the pressure level of gear pump has been significantly improved, up to 31.5 Mpa, has been squeezed into the medium and high pressure industry, changing the past view that gear pump is only used in low pressure system. The main disadvantage of gear pump is that the pressure pulsation is large and the leakage increases under high pressure. If it can be overcome, it shows that gear pump can not only keep the advantages of easy manufacture and low cost, but also replace some difficult pumps (such as plunger pumps) to further expand the scope of use. This will obviously bring greater technical value and social and economic benefits.
Many countries have made great breakthroughs in the technical research of gear pumps in recent years. In order to ensure reliable sealing between the suction chamber and the pressure chamber of the pump, the pump of Shimazu Seisakusho Company of Japan has set up special grooves in the end cover and embedded elastic sealing strip, which makes the volume efficiency high. Czech developed pumps, driven gear mounted on the ball support to ensure self-centering with the driving wheel, and reduce noise. Saitama Ki’s pumps in Japan have little change in trapped oil volume, thereby reducing pressure pulsation and improving working stability.
The development of gear pumps in China is as follows: 1) The radial clearance and axial clearance of low-pressure gear pumps are fixed, working on the principle of clearance sealing. The BC pump of Shanghai Machine Tool Plant and the CB-B pump of Wuxi Hydraulic Parts Factory belong to this kind of pump. 2) Medium and high pressure pumps are divided into two types according to axial clearance automatic compensation, one is the floating shaft sleeve type, such as the CB series pumps of the Yangtze River Hydraulic Component Plant and the YBC series pumps of Shijiazhuang Coal Mine Machinery Plant; the other is the elastic side plate type structure, such as the CB-BF type pump of Yuci Hydraulic Component Plant. 3) Typical high-pressure gear pumps are the CB-L type gear pumps of the Yangtze River Hydraulic Works. They have balanced structure of axial clearance and radial clearance. CBZ2 series high pressure gear pumps manufactured by Jinan Hydraulic Component Works have been patented in China. Axial compensation and radial tracking compensation are used to reduce the high pressure area and radial force. CBZb series adopts gear axial, radial floating compensation to reduce the inherent radial force of the gear pump. In the case of using rolling bearings, it has reached high pressure. Now it has applied for patents in China, the United States, Japan and other countries.
In recent years, with the increasing output of gear pumps, driven by the development of gear pumps to high pressure and high reliability, gear pump technology in China has made new progress and breakthroughs. Gear pumps are developing towards high integrated modularization, attaching importance to environmental protection, developing zero leakage and low noise components. Threaded cartridge valves are widely used, oil pump noise is significantly reduced, hydraulic pump variable information and intelligent control has been widely used. Products such as Japan, Denmark and the United States have already been sold. Rapidly biodegradable fluids such as benzene oil-based and synthetic ester-based transmission media have been used to reduce pollution. Water hydraulic transmission has been widely valued. The scientific and technological workers in Japan and Finland have done a lot of work. Products have been sold in Japan, Denmark, the United States and other countries. The research on seawater hydraulic pump by Professor Zhou Hua and Li Zhuangyun of Huazhong University of science and technology in China is very meaningful. Pure water hydraulic pump is the most important component in the pure water hydraulic system that has been re developed in recent years. Pure water is compatible with the environment as the medium of the hydraulic pump system. The system simplifies the safety, fireproof energy-saving, economic and health and other green features to meet the needs of sustainable development of mankind. Danish company Danfoss is a typical supplier of water hydraulic pump components, its Nessie series of water hydraulic components have been supplied to the market. The German Hanhinc Gmbh company and the British Fenner company also have a series of water hydraulic pump components supply market. China’s East China University of science and technology has made considerable progress.
CAD design makes manual design become automatic and semi-automatic, especially the popularization and application of CAD / CAM / CAPP make hydraulic technology develop rapidly. Over the past decade, workstations and PCs have been widely used. Overseas, the application of hydraulic CAD plays an important role in improving the design quality, speeding up the design speed and promoting the replacement of hydraulic products. The development of hydraulic CAD technology is more rapid in the 1990s. The next long-term goal of hydraulic technology development is to fully support the whole process of hydraulic products from conceptual design, appearance design, performance design, reliability design to detailed design of parts and components, and to make use of CAD and CAA. (CAE), Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP), Computer Aided Inspection (CAI), Computer Aided Testing (CAT) and modern management system are integrated to establish a computer manufacturing system, which makes a breakthrough in hydraulic design and manufacturing technology.