The two main sources contributing to scroll compressor vibration at running frequency are the residual rotational unbalance in the crank-rotor assembly and the reciprocating force due to the Oldham ring. The intent of this paper is to develop a rigid body model of the compressor vibrating on resilient grommets. This model is a design tool capable of identifying the sensitivity, of the steady-st...

Flow losses through the valve ports contribute a significant portion to the total energy loss of a high speed compressor. As a result, in the energyconscious world of today, compressor designers are always busy finding methods and techniques to minimize these losses. It can be argued that the various fundamentally different compressor concepts would have different valve flow losses simply as a ...

Reliability assessment of reciprocating equipment piston rod leads to nonlinear elastic-plastic deformation analysis of rod with initial imperfection under axial dynamic load. In this paper a new and effective model and analytical simulation method are presented to evaluate dynamic deformation and elastic-plastic stress of reciprocating machine piston rod. This new method has capability to acco...

In this paper, a set of mathematical model to be used for predicting the dynamics of a reciprocating compressor in a refrigerator has been developed. Based on the conservation of energy and mass, the model was established by dividing a global compressor into ten controlling volumes. The model was validated by the experimental results from literatures. It could be calculated for the transient ch...

This paper deals with generalized approach to the reciprocating piston compressor driven by oscillating electrical motor and possibilities of development of new structures of the device. The current term linear compressor, ipso facto, restricts the considered devices only with a linear motion of the piston. Therefore the more general term oscillating motor-compressors is used in the paper, in w...

HVAC compressor units are major energy consumers in both residential and commercial buildings today. Faulty and energy wasting operation of these units often goes unnoticed due to the corrective action of feedback control. Power system monitoring is an exciting approach for creating inexpensive, highly capable methods to monitor compressor unit performance. In this paper we develop a method to ...

A load stand has been built and used to det ermine the performance of an open type reciprocating r efrigeration compressor over a range of speeds. The load stand and instrumentation are desc ribed and sample test readings are given. Measured perform ance characteristics for the compressor over a range of speeds are p resented. Aspects of the load stand are discussed and conclusion s are drawn f...

Reciprocating compressors play a key role in the today industry. They are vital machines in various units of industrial plants from air compression units to refineries, gas processing plants, petrochemical facilities, refrigeration systems, LNG units and so on. They are the most efficient and the most common type of compressor. Advantages of new technologies compared to old-fashion designs for ...

Equipment- and site-level methane emissions from 45 compressor stations in the transmission and storage (T&S) sector of the US natural gas system were measured, including 25 sites required to report under the EPA greenhouse gas reporting program (GHGRP). Direct measurements of fugitive and vented sources were combined with AP-42-based exhaust emission factors (for operating reciprocating engine...

An advanced warning system for maintenance and control of reciprocating compressors is discussed. The compressor is instrumented to measure valve temperatures, interstage pressures and temperatures, rod drops, packing temperature and leakage flow, and numerous other variables. Under control of a microcomputer, a scanner monitors the sensors and updates a database. After a scan, an expert progra...