This note describes a graphical method for analysing compressed air flow through a spool valve by establishing a set of modified choked flow curves from two intersecting combined choked flow surfaces of the individual flow streams through the valve. The computation using intersection of planes and lines is found to be much easier than the hybrid method used in an earlier flow node model.
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