Aerodynamic instability could deteriorate the performance and structural integrity of a compression system. It has been an important issue in both the engineering and academic fields. Fewer studies have focused on the instability mechanism and behavior of combined compressors consisting of both axial and centrifugal-type stages, which have distinct pressurization capability and instability mechanism from each other. This paper concentrates on the influence of the centrifugal stage in a combined compressor on the overall aerodynamic stability. First, an experiment is carried out to investigate its instability characteristics. Then, a multi-actuator dynamic model is established to further analyze the influence of the centrifugal stage on the combined compressor instability from two aspects, the stage matching and the B parameter. To decouple these two factors, B parameters are increased above the critical value, eliminating its effect on the surge boundary only to investigate the influence of stage matching. Results show that when a stage performance curve with pressure ratio against mass flow rate has a negative slope near the matching point, the centrifugal stage has a stabilizing effect on the overall stability. In contrast, this stage has a detrimental influence when matched on the performance curve with a positive slope. For B parameter effects, a large value of B parameter generally narrows the stable operating range. Therefore, the influence of the centrifugal stage is determined by the balance of the above two aspects. Generally, for a combined compressor in a real industrial application, the change of B parameter by the centrifugal stage has more obvious effects on the overall stability than the stage matching because the centrifugal stage generally has a larger pressurization capability, resulting in a larger value of B parameter. Therefore, both stage matching and B parameter effect should be carefully considered for the stability design of a combined compressor consisting of stages with clear pressurization capability differences, compared with the individual axial or centrifugal compressor including the stages with similar pressurization capability.
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