Hydraulic Actuator with Power Line Communication for Valve Remote Control System

Valve remote control system is a convenient system which it is possible to operate the valves installed in the cargo or ballast tanks from the remote wheelhouse. This paper is dealing with an integrated hydraulic actuator with a power line communication module for a valve remote control system. The integrated hydraulic actuator consists of a gear pump, integrated block, and controller with a power line communication module. We try to design and implement the hydraulic actuator and this tries to be verified through an experiment. The developed actuator has two advantages. One is that the pipelines between an actuator and a power unit are not needed since a solenoid valve rock and a hydraulic power unit used in the conventional control can be removed. The other is that the pressure loss can be minimized due to simplifying a pipeline and improving the power transmission ability.