• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.3722-3730
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• 2015

The performance improvement of a small centrifugal compressor for waste water treatment has been conducted by the design change of vaneless diffuser and volute casing. Existing two compressors use a common impeller, but the width and length of the vaneless diffuser and the cross-sectional shape of the volute casing are different, respectively. Based on the experiment of the existing two compressors and their CFD results, the design of the vaneless diffuser and the volute casing has been changed. It was found that the strength of the interaction among the volute tongues, the vaneless diffusers and the impellers of two existing/one improved compressors, was affected by the cross-sectional area and inlet radial length of the volute casing including system losses' change. The efficiency of the impeller with one existing design was increased as the decrease of the width of the vaneless diffuser, but losses at the diffuser were accumulated. In conclusion, approximately 2.88%p efficiency increase at the design point of the new compressor with the improved design has been confirmed by CFD analysis results.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.5-12
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• 2016

In this study, a parametric study on a cavity as casing treatment of a centrifugal compressor has been conducted using three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations with shear stress transport turbulence model. Two kinds of cavity were applied at choke and surge conditions, respectively, in this work. Inlet and outlet port widths, angle of outlet port, and length of cavity were chosen as the geometric parameters and investigated to find their effects on the aerodynamic performances such as adiabatic efficiency at design mass flow rate and stall margin of the centrifugal compressor. It was found that the aerodynamic performances of the centrifugal compressor were affected considerably by the four geometric parameters. The adiabatic efficiency was hardly changed by the geometric parameters, excepts for the angle of outlet port. With an increase in the angle of outlet port, the adiabatic efficiency and the stall margin decreased. The stall margin was more sensitive to the outlet port width than to the other geometric parameters. And, with a decrease in the outlet port width, the stall margin increased by 2% compared to that of the reference.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.28-35
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• 1993

팬소음은 설계변수들과 관계가 있으므로 본 논문은 실험적 방버벵 의하여 팬소음과 설계변수의 관계를 고찰하였다. 설계변수는 팬소음에 특히 영향이 큰 날개수, 날개각도, 날개끝 간극을 선택하였으며 새로운 설계변수로서 동익과 정익간의 간극과 흡입구 길이를 고찰하였다. 본 논문은 팬소음에 대한 관련된 이론을 정리하였으며 축류형 팬의 고효율 저소음 설계를 위한 방안을 제시하였다. 흡입구 길이, 날개끝 간극, 동익과 정익간의 간극등의 설계변소를 변경하여 실험한 결과 이들 설계변수들의 조정에 m이하여 축류형 팬의 고효율 저소음화를 이룰 수 있었다.