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Total pressure loss mechanism of centrifugal compressors

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posted on 2015-08-20, 10:43 authored by Xiaoyang Gong, Rui Chen
This paper describes the construction of the centrifugal compressor model and its validation with the experimental data. The compressor model in this paper uses One-dimensional (1D) thermo-fluid equations to analyse the compressor side of a turbocharger. Under a specified set of turbocharger geometry, atmospheric conditions, rotational speed, and fluid mass flow rate, the model can calculates the static and total temperatures, velocities, static and total pressures, pressure losses, and isentropic efficiencies for each compressor component. Instead of using lumped loss parameters, the compressor model includes established loss models found in the open literature. Not only in the impeller, the losses in the diffuser and the volute are modelled. With the model, it is possible for a parametric study on the effect of each loss mechanism on the performance, and which can aid the designer in justifying design decisions minimising the magnitude of the losses and thus positively influence the overall performance. The compressor model can also be applied to investigate the two stage Turbocharging or Variable Geometry Turbocharger (VGT) in the future.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Published in

Journal of Mechanical Engineering Research

Volume

4

Issue

2

Pages

45 - 59

Citation

GONG, X. and CHEN, R., 2014. Total pressure loss mechanism of centrifugal compressors. Journal of Mechanical Engineering Research, 4 (2), pp. 45 - 59.

Publisher

Canadian Center of Science and Education / © The Authors

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

This is an Open Access article published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education and licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

ISSN

1927-0607

eISSN

1927-0615

Language

  • en

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