Efficiency study of oil cooling of a screw compressor

Technical Report · Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6240340· OSTI ID:6240340

Tree, D. R.; McKellar, M. G.

One of the major goals of all compressor manufacturers is to build as efficient a compressor as possible. Over the last several years improvements to the design of screw compressors has made them efficiently competitive with other types of compressors, especially at large loads. The primary purpose of this research is to investigate four different methods of cooling a 250 horsepower compressor and determine their effects on the efficiency of the compressor. Two conventional methods, liquid injection and thermosyphon cooling, and two new methods, V-PLUS and Fresco oil injection, are investigated. The screw compressor used in the tests was a VRS-500 screw compressor made by the Vilter Manufacturing Corporation. 6 figs.

• Research Organization: Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN (USA). Ray W. Herrick Labs.
• DOE Contract Number: FG01-87CE15245
• OSTI ID: 6240340
• Report Number(s): DOE/CE/15245-T1; ON: DE89011417
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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