Back-to-back testing has been done using NASA fan rotor 67 in the Glenn Research Center W8 Axial Compressor Test Facility. The rotor was baseline tested with a normal industrial RMS surface finish of 0.5-0.6 μm (20-24 microinches) at 60, 80 and 100% of design speed. At design speed the tip relative Mach number was 1.38. The blades were then removed from the facility and ultrapolished to a surfa...

Determination of the starter torque-speed diagram is a major task in the design or selection of a proper gas turbine starter. In this paper, the maximum power of the MGT-40 gas turbine starter was calculated based on the dynamics of the rotor, start-up logic, and compressor map. In a recent research, the pressure ratio was assumed as a linear function of the rotor speed and the required starter...

The dynamics of reed valves of a reciprocating compressor is tightly coupled with the dynamics of fluid inside compressor ducts. A global model of a refrigerator compressor is developed taking into account the net flow through the ducts. Results show that reed valves vibrations influence the compressor cycle and can produce noise in the high frequency range.

The accretion of ice in the compression system of commercial gas turbine engines operating in high ice water content conditions is a safety issue being studied by the aviation community. While most of the research focuses on the underlying physics of ice accretion and the meteorological conditions in which accretion can occur, a systems-level perspective on the topic lends itself to potential n...

Abstract The environmental control system (ECS) is the largest auxiliary power consumer, i.e., around 75% of non-propulsive power, among aircraft subsystems. adoption a novel ECS architecture, based on an electrically-driven vapor compression cycle system, can enable twofold increase coefficient performance at cruise conditions, as compared to conventional air machine. core this technology high...

The paper describes the design concept of a small, oilfree, reciprocating high pressure compressor which was particularly developed for NGV-applications (NGV = Natural Gas for Vehicles). It is field proven in several thousand installations in various parts of the world. The compressor head is also used in a small hermetically sealed compression unit for technical gases like N2, Air, Ar, He, H2,...