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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 92, 2015
EFM14 – Experimental Fluid Mechanics 2014
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Article Number | 02100 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Contributions | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159202100 | |
Published online | 06 May 2015 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159202100
Modelling fluid flow in a reciprocating compressor
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Energy Institute, Technicka 2896/2 Brno 616 69, Czech Republic
a Corresponding author: tuhovcak@fme.vutbr.cz
Published online: 6 May 2015
Efficiency of reciprocating compressor is strongly dependent on the valves characteristics, which affects the flow through the suction and discharge line. Understanding the phenomenon inside the compressor is necessary step in development process. Commercial CFD tools offer wide capabilities to simulate the flow inside the reciprocating compressor, however they are too complicated in terms of computational time and mesh creation. Several parameters describing compressor could be therefore examined without the CFD analysis, such is valve characteristic, flow through the cycle and heat transfer. The aim of this paper is to show a numerical tool for reciprocating compressor based on the energy balance through the cycle, which provides valve characteristics, flow through the cycle and heat losses from the cylinder. Spring-damping-mass model was used for the valve description. Boundary conditions were extracted from the performance test of 4-cylinder semihermetic compressor and numerical tool validation was performed with indicated p-V diagram comparison.
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