Ocean Engineering Equipment and Technology ›› 2016, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (6): 350-355.

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 Research on the Interruptions among Subsea Hydraulic Actuators in the Opening Process

 WANG Xin, ZUO Xin, YANG Qing-qing, MA Tian-ran, YE Tian-yuan, WANG Ting   

  1.  Offshore Oil & Gas Research Center, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China; College of Geophysics and Information Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China; SINOPEC Jianghan Oil Field, Wuhan, Hubei 430000, China; Chongqing Qianwei Offshore Petroleum Engineering & Equipment Co., Ltd., Chongqing 401121, China; Chongqing Qianwei Science & Technology Group, Chongqing 401121, China
  • Received:2016-09-19 Online:2016-12-25 Published:2017-08-14
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Abstract:  There are many hydraulic actuators on one subsea Christmas tree. When the hydraulic actuators are turned on in sequence, mutual influence among the hydraulic actuators will happen and sometimes even lead to the generation of malfunction. In this paper, the software AMESim is adopted, the model of many hydraulic actuators on one subsea Christmas tree interfering with each other in the process of action is established and the simulation analysis is made on the interaction among them which leads to interference of normal operating conditions so as to improve the situation properly. The results show that increasing the size of the accumulator and increasing the oil supply pipe diameter of umbilical cable can improve or even eliminate the malfunction caused by the interaction among the hydraulic actuators. And then how to combine these two methods to save the economic costs and avoid the malfunction of hydraulic actuators is analyzed theoretically.

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