From 2015, Turbofan Technology and Engineering Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University has made great efforts to set up a compressor rig test facility. Since this time, the facility has been used extensively. All systems for control, surveillance and data acquisition have been developed in-house, and it has been possible to make continuous improvements over the years. Also, the mechanical performance has been perfected. After several compressor tests of operation, the facility is now running at its optimum with a high degree of availability. Main characteristics of the facility are as follow. The maximum drive power is 4.3 MW, and the maximum mass flow is 50 kg/s. The inlet pressure can be controlled by inlet valve. The exhaust pressure is controlled by pneumatic butterfly valve, and 600 kPa absolute pressure maximum can be reached. The maximum exhaust temperature can reach 260 °C. Meantime, effective noise reduction to the control room and to the surrounding environment has been done. The inlet system and test object are set up in aerodynamic anechoic chamber, which is 20 m long, 18 m wide and 11 m tall. For the motor and gear box, they are insulated in a power room, and the wall of the power room is paved with sound attenuation material. The main part of the test facility is the control system and data acquisition system. A state-of-the-art control system with several safety features and data logging for later retrieval is set up. The stat-of-the-art data acquisition and evaluation system are based on NI data acquisition hardware. In the data acquisition and evaluation system, a stall alarm model and blade flutter detection model are integrated in the system. Now, this facility has been used for validating the booster design of ACAE. In this paper, the design of the facility, the control system and data acquisition and some test results are introduced in detailed.

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