QFD&DFMA application on an Oil/Water separation product
When oil fields become old,the proportion of water in crude oil will get higher and higher.Using a traditional bulk separator to extract the water from crude oil has many disadvantages:e.g.high pressure loss,low separation speed,heavy equipment and sensitive to direction.Caltec Ltd.has developed Wx-12,an innovative separator for the oil and gas industry.The device has been tested on offshore platforms and has shown high performance.Currently however,the manufacturing cost of the device is too high making it unlikely to be accepted by market.This project first used QFD to transform the user requirements of Wx-12 into engineering specifications.Then DFA & DFM methods were applied to Wx-12 in order to make it compact and reduce the manufacturing cost.An alternative design for Wx-12 unit was generated according to the results from QFD,DFA and DFM.Alternative materials were also considered to support the altemative designs.Finally altemative designs and alternative materials were verified with the engineers from Caltec Ltd..
Product design Water/Oil separator DFA DFM QFD
Ti LU Yidu Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
国际会议
台湾
英文
211-216
2012-03-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）