Empirical Design Considerations for Industrial Centrifugal Compressors

Thermoplastic Labyrinth Seals for Centrifugal Compressors

For over 15 years now, the efficiency and reliability of centrifugal compressors have been enhanced by the application of thermoplastic materials to the eye, shaft, and balance piston labyrinth seals. Traditionally these seals have been manufactured from metallic materials and have required relatively large clearances for reliability reasons. By upgrading to carefully selected engineered thermo...

Design Considerations for High-Pressure Reciprocating Compressors for Refinery Services

A Comparison of Regenerative and Centrifugal Compressors

Full-scale Aerodynamic and Rotordynamic Testing for Large Centrifugal Compressors

This paper describes a full-scale, flexible test vehicle designed and built by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to validate the aerodynamic and mechanical performance of large compressors for a variety of applications. This paper provides a description of the test vehicle as well as mechanical and aerodynamic performance data gathered during testing of the vehicle.

Supercritical fluid recycle for surge control of CO2 centrifugal compressors

This paper presents computer-based design and analysis of control systems for centrifugal compressors when the operating fluid is supercritical CO2. It reports a non-linear dynamic model including a main forward compression line and two different configurations for the recycle antisurge line. Disturbance scenarios are proposed for testing the configurations and performance indicators are sugges...