Method of dynamic balancing for magnetic levitation molecular pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9470236-B2
Application number	US-201214362815-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2012
Priority date	Dec 5, 2011
Publication date	Oct 18, 2016
Grant date	Oct 18, 2016

Abstract

A rotor dynamic balancing method for a magnetic levitation molecular pump, which includes the steps of activating an open loop feed forward control module after activating a motor of the magnetic levitation molecular pump; if the maximum radial vibration amplitude does not exceed ½ of a protective clearance during the acceleration of the rotor under the control of the open loop feed forward control module, indicating that the open loop feed forward control module is able to inhibit the co-frequency vibration of the rotor, so as to allow the rotational speed of the rotor to exceed its rigid critical rotational speed; and performing a rotor dynamic balancing operation at a high speed by an influence coefficient method. This method directly performs the rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to the rotor at a high-speed, which facilitates the rotor dynamic balancing operation so as to perform the rotor dynamic balancing operation more quickly and efficiently.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of rotor dynamic balancing for a magnetic levitation molecular pump, which comprises the steps of:
step 1 : activating an open loop feed forward control module of a controller of said magnetic levitation molecular pump after activating a motor of said magnetic levitation molecular pump for acceleration;
controlling a displacement detector through said controller of said magnetic levitation molecular pump so as to collect radial displacement signals of a rotor of said magnetic levitation molecular pump and to detect radial vibration amplitude of said rotor; and
sequentially executing step 2 , if the maximum radial vibration amplitude does not exceed ½ of a protective clearance during the acceleration of said rotor under the open loop feed forward control module control, indicating that open loop feed forward control module is able to inhibit co-frequency vibration of said rotor, so as to allow a rotational speed of said rotor to exceed a rigid critical rotational speed of the rotor; or
applying a typical rotor dynamic balancing method to achieve a low-speed balancing, so as to ensure the radial vibration amplitude of said rotor not to exceed ½ of said protective clearance before the rotational speed of said rotor exceeds a rigid critical rotational speed thereof, if the maximum radial vibration amplitude of said rotor exceeds ½ of said protective clearance, and then sequentially executing step 2 , after the rotational speed of said rotor exceeds the rigid critical rotational speed thereof;
step 2 : detecting the radial vibration amplitude of said rotor through said displacement detector during further acceleration of said motor; and stopping accelerating said motor, so as to stabilize said rotor at rotational speed ω i wherein i represents whole numbers 0, 1, 2, . . . , when the radial vibration amplitude of said rotor exceeds a preset vibration threshold of said rotor with respect to a nonrated rotational speed;
detecting a current rotational speed ω i through a rotational speed detector controlled by said controller of said magnetic levitation molecular pump; and
determining if a rotational speed ω i is below a rated rotational speed of said rotor ω E ; if ω i is below ω E , then sequentially executing step 3 , otherwise jumping to step 5 ;
step 3 : performing a rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to said rotor at the nonrated rotational speed, by an influence coefficient method, under the open loop feed forward control module, with the operation of rotor dynamic balancing for said rotor at ω i comprising steps of:
3 a ) calling a rotor dynamic balancing module through said controller of said magnetic levitation molecular pump according to a current radial vibration amplitude and the rotational speed of said rotor, after said rotor with two balance planes preset thereon is accelerated to ω i , and recording a current initial imbalance vector V 0 measured by a first radial displacement sensor and a second radial displacement sensor; wherein, the two balance planes are preset respectively away from a barycenter of the rotor and close to both ends of the rotor;
3 b ) turning off said motor of said magnetic levitation molecular pump, so as to decelerate said rotor to zero, and adding a trial mass m 1 on a first balance plane; then restarting said magnetic levitation molecular pump so as to accelerate to the rotational speed ω i , and recording a current imbalance vector V 1 measured by said first radial displacement sensor and said second radial displacement sensor;
3 c ) decelerating said rotor again to zero, and removing said trial mass m 1 while adding a trial mass m 2 on a second balance plane; and then restarting said magnetic levitation molecular pump so as to accelerate the magnetic levitation molecular pump to rotational speed ω i according to the aforesaid steps, and recording a current imbalance vector V 2 measured by said first radial displacement sensor and said second radial displacement sensor;
3 d ) with M 1 and M 2 being initial imbalance masses of two imbalance planes respectively, calculating influence coefficient matrix T by an influence coefficient method, which is:
V 0 =T[M 1 M 2 ] T V 1 =T[M 1 +m 1 M 2 ] T V 2 =T[M 1 M 2 +m 2 ] T

obtaining the influence coefficient matrix T according to the aforesaid matrix equations, and obtaining the initial imbalance mass matrix [M1 M2] T =T −1 V 0 through substitution in the first matrix equation;
3 e ) decelerating said rotor to zero, performing the rotor dynamic balancing operation by adding or removing weight to or from said two imbalance planes respectively, based on the initial imbalance masses measured by means of step 3 d );
3 f ) restarting said magnetic levitation molecular pump, while accelerating said rotor to ω i , and detecting a vibration amplitude of said rotor to determine if the vibration amplitude is below the preset vibration threshold with respect to the nonrated rotational speed; if the detected radial vibration amplitude is below said preset vibration threshold regarding the nonrated rotational speed, completing the rotor dynamic balancing operation at the current rotational speed and jumping to the next step; otherwise, repeating with step 3 a ) to 3 f ) till said rotor rotating at speed ω i , and the detected radial vibration amplitude of said rotor is below the preset vibration threshold with respect to the nonrated rotational speed when the rotor rotates at speed ω i , and sequentially executing step 4 ;
step 4 : letting i=i+1, and repeating step 2 ;
step 5 : under the control of the open loop feed forward control module, performing the rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to said rotor at a rated rotational speed; the radial vibration amplitude of said rotor is below the preset vibration threshold regarding the nonrated rotational speed during the acceleration of said rotor from zero to ω E ; and when the rotational speed of said rotor reaches ω E , the radial vibration amplitude of said rotor is below the preset vibration threshold with respect to the rated rotational speed as well as the residual imbalance mass of said rotor is less than the preset imbalance mass, completing the rotor dynamic balancing operation.

2. The method of rotor dynamic balancing of claim 1 , wherein said step 5 further comprises steps of:
A. if ω i >ω E , activating said motor for decelerating said rotor speed to ω E , otherwise keeping said rotor rotating at ω E ;
B. calling said rotor dynamic balancing module by said controller of said magnetic levitation molecular pump based on the current radial vibration amplitude and the rotational speed of said rotor, and performing rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to said rotor by means of influence coefficient method; performing rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to said rotor rotating at ω E according to step 3 a ) to 3 e ), so as to obtain a required balance mass and a loaded phase of balance mass of said rotor; turning off said motor for decelerating said rotor to zero and sequentially executing step C;
C. performing rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to said rotor according to the calculated required balance mass and the loaded phase of balance mass and sequentially executing step D;
D. activating said motor, and activating the open loop feed forward control module, and detecting radial vibration amplitude of said rotor by said displacement detector; and sequentially executing step E, if under the control of the open loop feed forward control module, the maximum radial vibration amplitude of said rotor caused by imbalance masses of said rotor does not exceed ½ of said protective clearance during the acceleration of said rotor, indicat

Assignees

• Kyky Technology Co Ltd
• Univ Tsinghua

Inventors

• Zhang Kai
• Wu Han
• Li Qizhi
• Zhang Xiaozhang
• Zou Meng

Classifications

• F04D19/048

  comprising magnetic bearings · CPC title

• F04D19/042 Primary

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• F04D29/058 Primary

  magnetic; electromagnetic · CPC title

• F04D29/662

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• F04D27/02

  Surge control {(surge detection F04D27/001)} · CPC title