...Mihai Arghir; Manh-Hung Nguyen; David Tonon; Jérôme Dehouve In order to avoid contact between the vibrating rotor and the stator, annular seals are designed with a relatively large radial clearance (∼100 μm) and, therefore, have an important leakage. The floating ring annular seal is able to reduce...

... stiffnesses and added mass coefficients; the latter was previously ignored or largely under predicted. 21 06 2011 22 06 2011 01 03 2012 01 03 2012 compressors finite element analysis hydrodynamics lubricating oils machine bearings rotors Oil seals are used...

...Wuwei Liang; Michael P. Enright The accuracy of probabilistic risk assessment of rotor disks is strongly dependent on the accurate description of the size and shape distributions of anomalies in alloys. These size-shape distributions of anomalies are often derived from planar sectioning data...

... proximity probes, located in the stator end caps, record the relative rotor-stator motion for each direction of excitation. These measurements in two parallel planes allow for monitoring of the stator’s pitch and provide an average bearing position. Piezoelectric accelerometers measure the stator absolute...

...Timothy W. Dimond; Amir A. Younan; Paul Allaire Rotordynamic instability, a self-excited vibration phenomenon, can lead to equipment failures, reduced production rates, and expensive redesign. Properly characterizing the stability response of flexible rotors on tilting pad bearings is therefore...

...Joachim Karnahl; Jens von Wolfersdorf; Kok-Mun Tham; Mike Wilson; Gary Lock This paper presents computational fluid dynamics (CFD) predictions of flow and heat transfer for an over-swirled low-radius preswirl system and comparison with experimental data. The rotor-stator CFD model comprises...

..., bearing sleeve, housing, and rotor exposed to the plenums. In addition, a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model on the leading edge groove region was developed for better prediction of inlet thermal boundary conditions for the bearing. Several case studies are presented through computer simulations...

...Stefano Bianchi; Alessandro Corsini; Luca Mazzucco; Lucilla Monteleone; Anthony G. Sheard Obtaining the right pitch in turbomachinery blading is crucial to efficient and successful operations. Engineers adjust the rotor’s pitch angle to control the production or absorption of power. Even for low...

... the typical seal types used in process gas centrifugal compressors at the balance piston location or center seal location to limit internal leakage and ensure a robust rotordynamic design. Tests were conducted on 170.6 mm (6.716 in) diameter seals for rotor speeds up to 15 kprm, inlet air pressure of 6.9 bar...

...Naohiko Takahashi; Yohei Magara; Mitsuhiro Narita; Haruo Miura Since heavier gases exert larger effects on rotordynamic stability, stability evaluation is important in developing or designing high-pressure compressors. To evaluate the rotor stability during operation, an excitation test using...

... of 150 rotor blades from a high-pressure compressor stage was 3D scanned in order to obtain the manufacturing variability. The obtained point clouds were parameterized using a parametric blade model, which uses typical profile parameters to translate the geometric variability into a numerical model...

... to the smaller number of parts required to support the rotor and no lubrication/seal system, AFBs provide compact solution to oil-free turbomachinery development.While foil bearing technology is mature in small industrial machines and power generation turbines, its application to aero-propulsion systems has been...

...Alejandro Cerda Varela; Ilmar Ferreira Santos This work is aimed at a theoretical study of the dynamic behavior of a rotor-tilting pad journal bearing (TPJB) system under different lubrication regimes, namely, thermohydrodynamic (THD), elastohydrodynamic (EHD), and hybrid lubrication regime...

...) mixtures, and predicts the static and dynamic force response of mixture lubricated seals; namely: leakage, power loss, reaction forces, and rotordynamic force coefficients, etc., as a function of the mixture volume fraction (β S ), supply and discharge pressures, rotor speed, whirl frequency, etc. A seal...

...Akira Okabe; Takeshi Kudo; Koki Shiohata; Osami Matsushita; Hiroyuki Fujiwara; Hideo Yoda; Shigeo Sakurai In a traditional turbine-generator set, rotor shaft designers and blade designers have their own models and design process which neglects the coupled effect. Since longer blade systems have...

...Tae Ho Kim; Yong-Bok Lee; Tae Young Kim; Kyong Ho Jeong Engineered design of modern efficient turbomachinery based on accurate model predictions is of importance as operating speed and rate power increase. Industrial applications use hydrodynamic fluid film bearings as rotor support elements due...

...John J. Yu This paper discusses reverse full annular rub based on a two degree-of-freedom rotor/seal model where a rubbing location can be simulated away from the lumped rotor mass. The analytical model is much closer to the experimental setup for comparison of results, and real machines...

... the “correlation measure.” The correlation measure captures the periodicity of the pressure in the rotor tip region of the compressor. The downcrossing frequency of the correlation measure across some preset threshold is measured while operating the compressor rig at various steady-state points along the design...

...Thorsten Pfister; Philipp Günther; Florian Dreier; Jürgen Czarske Monitoring rotor deformations and vibrations dynamically is an important task for improving both the safety and the lifetime as well as the energy efficiency of motors and turbo machines. However, due to the high rotor speed...

... elastic metal mesh pads installed between a rotating shaft and a housing. The present research presents load capacity tests of a MMFB at rotor rest (0 rpm) and 30 krpm for three metal mesh densities of 13.1%, 23.2%, and 31.6%. The metal mesh pad of test MMFB is made using a stainless steel wire...