Piston trajectory optimization of a reciprocating compressor

Noise Diagnostic Strategies in a Fractional Horsepower Reciprocating Piston Compressor

Modeling and Trajectory Optimization of Water Spray Cooling in a Liquid Piston Air Compressor

An efficient and sufficiently power dense air compressor/expander is the key element in a Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) approach. Efficiency can be increased by improving the heat transfer between air and its surrounding materials. One effective and practical method to achieve this goal is to use water droplets spray inside the chamber when air is compressing or expanding. In this paper,...

A 3-D Transient CFD Model of a Reciprocating Piston Compressor with Dynamic Port Flip Valves

In this paper a full transient 3-D CFD model of a complete single piston compressor system along with dynamic inlet and outlet port flip valves is presented. The model includes the motion of the cam driven piston, and also predicts the motion of the dynamic flip valves. All activities related to model creation, simulation and postprocessing were performed within the simulation software Simerics...

Experiences with Application of a CO2 Reciprocating Piston Compressor for a Heat Pump Water Heater

This paper describes some of the challenges experienced in the application of a carbon dioxide reciprocating piston compressor to a water heating heat pump. Due to the characteristics of CO2 in a trans-critical cycle, including high pressures, high discharge temperatures, and high solubility in oil, particular difficulties may be experienced such as reduced bearing reliability caused by bearing...

Performance Prediction of Reciprocating Compressor

The technique of the modeling and analysis procedures of reciprocating compressor is described which predict the basic performance of the compressor, compute the pressure pulsations in cylinder and suction line and simulate valve motions. The polytropic process assumption was used for modeling cylinder thermodynamic process and four-pole transfer matrix for gas pulsations and spring-mass model ...