This paper presents the results of performance testing of a single-stage centrifugal compressor operating under wet gas conditions. The test was performed at an oil and gas operator’s test facility and was executed at full-load and full-pressure conditions using a mixture of hydrocarbon gas and hydrocarbon condensate. The effect of liquid was investigated by changing the gas-volume fraction bet...

Synchronous Thermal Instability Evaluation of Medium Speed Turbocharger Rotor-Bearing Systems Brian R. Carroll Rotors in fluid-film bearing supported turbomachinery are known to develop elliptical orbits as a result of rotor-bearing interactions, mass unbalance within the rotor, gravitational bending of the shaft and external excitation. In synchronous whirl, where the speed at which the shaft ...

Condition monitoring data collection capabilities have grown over the last decade in large part due to advances in integrated circuits (IC). These advances now permit real time thermodynamic and process calculations on desktop computing platforms. With these capabilities, the sophistication and amount of data available to the users of rotating and reciprocating equipment has grown exponentially...

design models of multi- stage, axial flow compressor are developed for gas turbine engines. axial flow compressor is one of the most important parts of gas turbine units. therefore, its design and performance prediction are very important. one-dimensional modeling is a simple, fast and accurate method for performance prediction of any type of compressors with different geometries. in this appro...

In a compressor the existence of the clearance volume is inevitable, even rolling piston compressor is a kind of compact structure compressor, overflow is a method to decrease the effect of clearance volume. In this paper, the overflow design on a rolling piston rotary compressor is discussed, which uses the high-pressure gas in the clearance volume, and discuss its effect on the performance of...

Abstract Significant non-synchronous blade vibrations (NSVs) have been observed in an experimental three-stage high-speed compressor at part-speed conditions. High-amplitude acoustic modes, propagating around the circumference and originating highly loaded stage-3, coherence with structural vibration mode. In order to understand occurring phenomena, a detailed numerical study has carried out re...