Rotor Profile Generation Method for Twin Screw Compressors Based on Bi-Direction

2012 ◽  
Vol 229-231 ◽  
pp. 465-469
Author(s):  
Xue Ming He ◽  
Ming Han ◽  
Yang Deng ◽  
Yi Lu ◽  
Chen Liang Hua

The performance of twin-screw compressor is mainly decided by profiles of the two rotors. The constitution of new rotor profiles is studied, meanwhile the key technology of generating rotor profiles are mainly studied in this paper. A new method based on forward and reverse direction for generating rotor profiles with meshing lines is proposed.

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 168781401988378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Cao ◽  
Xueming He ◽  
Rong Zhang ◽  
Junfeng Xiao ◽  
Guojiang Shi

The female/male screw rotor profile design for a twin screw compressor poses challenges such as frequent parameter modification and a difficult-to-build performance test platform, which affect the efficiency of a rotor profile design. To address these problems, a new idea of applying a B-spline curve to a twin screw compressor rotor profile design is proposed in this article. In addition, the design result underwent fluid simulation based on fluid dynamics technology. This method overcomes the aforementioned challenges. As a meshing line has one-to-one mapping relationship with the rotor profile and reflects important performance parameters of the rotor profile, the method of deducing female and male rotor profiles for a twin screw compressor from a meshing line is proposed. Furthermore, the B-spline curve is used as a composition curve of the meshing line to achieve fast local adjustment of the rotor tooth profile. Based on existing rotor profiles, a meshing line is designed via the B-spline curve, and female and male rotor profiles are derived in reverse. The final rotor profile underwent fluid simulation via computational fluid dynamics analysis under various conditions to analyze the pattern of the internal flow field, which is compared with the results from conventional design.


2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Van Erdeweghe ◽  
Joris De Schutter ◽  
Eric Van den Bulck

In this paper, an integral methodology for the modeling of a twin-screw compressor is presented. Starting from a known rotor profile, all the algorithms to calculate the second rotor profile, the size of the control volume, and the compressor's performance are presented. The proposed modeling approach can be applied in an optimization procedure to find the optimal rotor profiles for a given application, with corresponding working conditions. Furthermore, based on the modeling results and substantiated with measurements on different compressor types, a similarity law for positive displacement compressors seems to exist. The existence of a similarity law has large application potential as it could be used to predict the performance of a positive displacement compressor in other than the (lab) tested working conditions. Further investigation of the similarity law for positive displacement compressors is therefore proposed as a key topic for future research.


Author(s):  
N Stošić

Twin-screw compressor rotors are effectively helical gears. When these are formed from a hobbing cutter, the hobbing tool and the rotor together constitute a pair of crossed helical gears. In the present paper, the envelope gearing method is used to derive a meshing condition for crossed helical gears which is then used to create the profile of a hobbing tool. A reverse transformation enables the rotor profile thereby manufactured to be calculated. Simplification of the main gearing condition leads to the meshing expression for helical gears which may be used for the design of screw compressor rotors.


2013 ◽  
Vol 753-755 ◽  
pp. 1557-1561
Author(s):  
Ling Zhang ◽  
Bin Yao ◽  
Zhi Huang Shen ◽  
Wen Chang Zhao ◽  
Bin Zhou

Upon researching on the form grinding principle of rotor of the twin-screw compressor, firstly, this article gives the mathematical model of acquiring form grinding wheels axis section from screw rotors end section which is given by a series of discrete points. Then some key technologies to solve problems during the derivation of grinding wheels axis section and relevant research method to optimize the best setting angle have been analyzed. And last, the results of simulation and actual processing prove that this method is reliable and can meet the requirements of machining precision.


1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. STOŠIĆ ◽  
I. K. SMITH ◽  
A. KOVAČEVIĆ ◽  
C. A. ALDIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 312 ◽  
pp. 11001
Author(s):  
Antonio Giuffrida

This paper presents the results of comparisons among some patented solutions for profiling the contours of the rotors in twin-screw compressors. Referring to a base case where all the generating curves are circumferences, patents suggesting to replace arcs of circumference with arcs of conic sections, i.e. parabola, ellipse and hyperbola, but even a straight line segment, are presented and guidelines for rotor profile construction are reported. After setting the size of the compressor, attention is paid to the inter-lobe area, as the sum of the area between two consecutive lobes in the male rotor and of the area of the groove in the female rotor. Actually, this area is strictly related to the volume displacement. Limited to the current case study, the profile including an elliptic segment seems to be the preferable solution for higher inter-lobe area, then for higher displacement, though a number of considerations should be necessary for a broader context.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1180 (1) ◽  
pp. 012004
Author(s):  
Sumit Patil ◽  
Nikola Stosic ◽  
Ahmed Kovacevic ◽  
Ian Smith ◽  
Neeraj Asati

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jie Lu ◽  
Zhiqin Cai ◽  
Sijie Cai ◽  
Bin Yao ◽  
Binqiang Chen

The performance of dry twin-screw compressors is primarily affected by the meshing clearance between a pair of meshing rotors. In this paper, a novel method for meshing clearance layout (MCL) is presented. The presented method is based on the engagement-pixel tracking (EPT) technique, which utilizes discrete-pixel curves generated by the two rotors. An algorithm for the proposed method is put forward. Firstly, when the profile of one rotor is known, the discrete point coordinates of the two rotor profiles and their thermal expansion profiles can be obtained. Secondly, the instantaneous contact models of the two rotors at special meshing positions are acquired under pixel coordinate system. Thirdly, through inspecting the pixels on the profile of a rotor and establishing the corresponding normal vector, the meshing clearance of the two rotors is extracted. Then, the meshing clearances can be generated by extracting the boundary pixels on the other rotor profile. Finally, the meshing clearance layout method is proposed. To verify the effectiveness of the presented method, a case study was conducted on a pair of meshing rotors to extract its meshing clearance. It was shown that the proposed method can be used as a tool for evaluating the clearance distribution of actual machined profiles.


Author(s):  
Di Yan ◽  
Qian Tang ◽  
Ahmed Kovacevic ◽  
Sham Rane ◽  
Linqing Pei

Increasing demands for high-performance handling of fluids in oil and gas as well as other applications require improvements of efficiency and reliability of screw pumps. Rotor profile plays the key role in the performance of such machines. This paper analyses difference in performance of 2–3 lobe combination of twin-screw pumps with different rotor profiles. A-type profile formed of involute–cycloid curves and D-type formed of cycloid curves are typical representatives for 2–3 type screw pumps. The investigation is performed by use of a full 3-D computational fluid dynamics analysis based on a single-domain structured moving mesh obtained by novel grid generation procedure. The real-time mass flow rate, rotor torque, pressure distribution and velocity field were obtained from 3D computational fluid dynamics calculations. The performance curves were produced for variable rotation speeds and variable discharge pressures. The computational fluid dynamics model was validated by comparing the simulation results of the A-type pump with the experimental data. In order to get the performance characteristics of D-type profile, two rotors with D-type profile were designed. The first has the same displacement volume as A-type while the second has the same lead and rotor length as A-type but different displacement volume. The comparison of results obtained with two rotor profiles gave an insight on the advantages and disadvantages of each of them.


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