ENDOREVERSIBLE RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR OPTIMIZATION

Autor/autori: Arpad TÖRÖK, Stoian PETRESCU, Gheorghe POPESCU, Michel FEIDT (Franta)

Abstract: Reciprocating compressors concur to a very wide range of thermodynamic processes in highly diverse operating conditions. Therefore, optimization of the endoreversible compressor in this paper seeks a new approach for the thermodynamic cycles. Using the Minimum Entropy Generation method and the concepts, the fundamental equations and the Direct Method of Finite Speed Thermodynamics [1-5], the endoreversible compressor operation was analyzed. The main control variable was the instantaneous speed of the piston, which will enabled to optimize each cycle in part and to achieve higher performance for the whole process

Keywords: entropy generation minimization, exergy loss minimization, isothermal transformation, piston speed optimization

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