Design Experience and Considerations for Centrifugal Compressor Development

Abstract

The energy products were challenged to develop new machines in a better, faster, and cheaper way. Although computational fluid dynamics tools are widely used in centrifugal compressor design and optimization process; three-dimensional viscous turbulent simulations for centrifugal compressor systems are still a challenge and very time consuming. The experiencebased design process still plays an important role for new compressor developments.Basic centrifugal compressor design theories can be found in textbooks and literatures; however, there is very limited quantity information, which can be used for guiding industry centrifugal compressor designs. In this paper, author presented his view of important aspects of centrifugal compressor designs. The purpose of this paper is to provide an opportunity to accelerate industrial compressor design processes by using experience database. Fig. 18 Interference diagram for straight and three-dimensional design with same blade thickness distributions JAERO103

The Development of an Integrally Geared Centrifugal Compressor

“…The optimizations and considerations for the compressor manufacturing cost and operational cost are normally done by compressor manufacturing based on inhouse experience and database. Most of the current method for new compressor design is scale and modify the previous design to a new design and then do the optimization in the components [1,15]. A few academic studies have been done to mention to combine the detail compressor design considerations and optimizations; there are very limited publications in this area.…”

“…A few academic studies have been done to mention to combine the detail compressor design considerations and optimizations; there are very limited publications in this area. The authors have discussed the importance of some of the design considerations in the past studies [1,16]. In this paper, the detail new compressor development process and considerations are discussed.…”

“…To effectively study the motor selection, it is necessary to determine numbers of stages. Based on some of the design consideration and manufacturing cost analysis [1], the annual operation and capital cost vs number of compressor stages are shown in Figure 2. It is shown that three and four stages for this machine are good choices.…”

“…The integrally geared centrifugal compressor is one of the important types of turbomachines to increase the gas pressure [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Integrally geared centrifugal compressors have more advantages than direct drive compressor because impellers can rotated in a higher tip speed.…”

Design of a Single Stage Centrifugal Compressor as Part of a Microturbine Running at 60000 rpm, Developing a Maximum of 60 kW Electrical Power Output

“…In the compressor design stage, many choices of design options need to be considered before the final design. It is essential that design engineers begin to perform a compressor design with full understanding of all aspects of the design considerations [1][2][3][4]. Many research works that have been cited in the open literature used different optimization methods such as artificial neural network (ANN) and a genetic algorithm (GA), developed computer codes, and Computational fluid mechanics (CFD) to design the centrifugal impeller.…”