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...

Abstract: This paper is focused on the performance of centrifugal compressors for vehicle turbochargers operating at high altitude. The reasons for turbocharged diesel engine power loss increases and bad economy performance caused by exhaust gas energy utilization are investigated. The atmosphere’s impact on the turbocharger centrifugal compressor’s energy distribution characteristics under the...

Dynamic models of liquid chillers are gaining importance in recent years as tools for evaluating feedback controllers and to study transient system performance in general. Such system models consist of component models for the heat-exchangers, the compressor and the expansion device. The modeling of the heat-exchangers is particularly significant as they constitute the largest thermal capacitan...

Abstract Performance prediction plays an important role in the predesign stage of centrifugal compressors. A set loss models is usually selected and grouped to fulfill above prediction. To improve defects traditional prediction, we modified outlet velocity slip coefficient impeller by means energy average method obtain theoretical work. new volute model proposed replace semiempirical adopting a...

Previous work on stabilization of compressor surge is extended to include control of the angular velocity of the compressor. First a low-order centrifugal compressor model is presented where the states are mass flow, pressure rise, and rotational speed of the spool. Energy transfer considerations are used to develop a compressor characteristic. In order to stabilize equilibria to the left of th...