Centrifugal compressors produce high pressure ratio and rotate at speeds. So, a tiny unbalance can produce severe vibration. In this paper, effects of impeller gap on rotor vibration in a high speed centrifugal compressor is investigated. For this purpose, a numerical and experimental analysis are carried out. The moving reference frame method in FLUENT software is used for modeling of geometri...

surge is one of the two destructive factors in compressors. surge is the stream instability phenomenon in compressor that imposes severe damages to the compressors. nowadays, suppressingsurge phenomenon is one of the most important issues in oil and gas industries, especially when flow reduction or gas reflux is considered. according to moore-greitzer compressor model, this paper designs an act...

The co-rotating mechanism is utilized for scroll vacuum pump application by one of the authors. It was found that the corotating scroll compressor is transformed to a centrifugal compressor by reducing the eccentricity between the two scrolls to zero. The authors propose a co-rotating scroll compressor which works not only as a positive displacement compressor, but also as a centrifugal one in ...

turbocharging an engine boosts its power by increasing the amount of input air. this task is accomplished by using the exhaust gas to power a turbine which is engaged with a compressor. the variable geometry turbocharger, vgt is a unique turbocharger that the diffuser vane angle can be changed over a wide range of positions. the mathematics of turbomachinery flow analysis is intensive and uses ...

This paper presents some of the results from a Master’s thesis research into the performance and operation of a centrifugal compressor at off-design operating conditions using advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques. ANSYS CFX is the CFD solver used in this blind study to evaluate the ability of modern CFD software to predict the performance of centrifugal compressors operating a...

This study adopts the centrifugal compressor system which produces the nitric acid equipment in China Petrochemical Development Corporation’s Plant. The system is non-linear and its manufacturing process is changeable, which the traditional PID (Proportional-Integral-Differential) control method is difficult to apply. This study is intended to apply the artificial neural network method to test ...

A dynamic model of a centrifugal compressor capable of system simulation in the virtual test bed (VTB) computational environment is presented. The model is based on first principles, i.e. the dynamic performance including the losses is determined from the compressor geometry and not from the experimentally determined characteristic performance curves. In this study, the compressor losses, such ...

Water as a refrigerant (R718) is compared with other modern refrigerants (R717, R290 R134a, R12, R22, and R152a) regarding refrigeration capacity and COP (coefficient of performance). A computer program simulating a theoretical vapor compression refrigeration cycle was developed to calculate COPs, compression ratios, and discharge temperatures of the refrigerants from the compressor. The effect...

This paper proposes a robust design scheme for the control of surge phenomenon appearing in a centrifugal compressor. It is known the surge instability in compressor might lead to reduce the operating efficiency and even damage the machinery while both of unstable compressor characteristics and compressor load torque are hard to exactly measure in the practical application. Based on the assumpt...

Centrifugal compressors are used in a large number of different compression applications. This tutorial addresses applications for centrifugal compressors in the upstream and midstream sector, such as LNG compression, refrigeration, pipeline compression, compression for gas injection, gas lift, gas gathering, export compression, air compression, and others. The focus is on the specific compress...