The air separation plays an extremely important role in the development of metallurgical industry. And the air compressor which provides not only the required pressure air for the cooling equipment and refrigeration plant but also the raw material required for the separation plant is a key device in the air separation plant. Utilization of the air compressor is extremely extensive in many signi...

This paper describes an experimental and theoretical analysis of the heat and mass transfer processes that take place during defrosted water evaporation from compressor water trays. The influence of the operating conditions on the water evaporation rate was experimentally evaluated using a purpose-built testing facility. Two different tray designs were studied (top hat and membrane). In total, ...

Refrigerant compressors can be a primary noise source in residential air conditioning and heat pump systems. When evaluating the contribution of a compressor to the total noise, it is necessary to consider how the compressor couples to the condensing unit. Compressors typically couple to the condensing unit via three different types of noise paths. First, the compressor couples structurally to ...

In this study, operation of compressor station has been investigated by exergy approach. Exergy analysis is a thermodynamic method which shows the irreversibility of a system quantitatively. Gas compressors are used to compensate the pressure drop along the gas pipeline significantly. The compression process causes temperature rise of gas; in this regard gas cooler is applied to reduce the temp...

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...

Small rotor clearances are today a vital prerequisite for an efficient screw compressor. The clearances are responsible for compressor leakages, small clearance will minimise them and thereby increase both, the volumetric and adiabatic efficiency. A continuous improvement in the rotor manufacturing equipment has been achieved during the recent years and tight production tolerances may now be ap...

The air compressor provides not only the required pressure air for the cooling equipment and refrigeration plant, but also the raw material required for the air separation plant. Utilizing the air compressor is extremely extensive in many significant departments such as the metallurgy, oil and chemical industry. The air compressor production process is a time-varying, delay and nonlinear comple...

Increasing demands for more efficient screw compressors require that compressor designs are tailored upon their duty, capacity and manufacturing capability. A suitable procedure for optimisation of the screw compressor shape, size, dimension and operating parameters is described here, which results in the most appropriate design for a given compressor application and fluid. It is based on a rac...

Adapting turbocharger performance maps to a form suitable for dynamic simulations is challenging for the following reasons: (1) the amount of available data is typically limited, (2) data are typically not provided for the entire operating range of the compressor and turbine and (3) the performance data are non-linear. To overcome these challenges, curve fits are typically generated using the p...

This paper demonstrates a typical process to investigate the vibro-acoustic behavior of R410A rotary compressors. The compressor shell is usually the main noise radiator in a rotary compressor. However, the accumulator shell can be a significant noise source as well, although its size is relatively small. Sound performance of a rotary compressor is affected not only by the dynamic characteristi...