Design and operation of a counter-rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005.

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Main Author: Parker, David V. (David Vickery)
Other Authors: Alan H. Epstein.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32433
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spelling mit-1721.1/324332019-04-11T11:22:51Z Design and operation of a counter-rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility Counter-rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility Parker, David V. (David Vickery) Alan H. Epstein. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Aeronautics and Astronautics. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-112). A unique counter-rotating aspirated compressor was tested in a blowdown facility at the Gas Turbine Laboratory at MIT. The facility expanded on experience from previous blowdown turbine and blowdown compressor experiments. Advances in thermocouple and facility designs enabled efficiency estimates through total temperature and total pressure measurements. The facility was designed to provide at least 100 ms of available test time, approximately a factor of five greater than previous blowdown compressor facilities. The adiabatic core efficiency of the compressor was estimated with an uncertainty of 0.8% and the corrected flow was estimated with an uncertainty of 1.0%. The compressor was tested at several operating conditions and two speed lines were partially mapped. The maximum measured total pressure ratio across the two stages was 3.02 to 1. The measured adiabatic efficiency for that point was 0.885. The span-wise total pressure, total temperature, and efficiency profiles were compared to the predicted profiles for runs with the corrected speeds of the two rotors at 90% of design and 100% design. There appears to be reasonable agreement between the predictions and the measurements. by David V. Parker. S.M. 2006-03-29T18:44:11Z 2006-03-29T18:44:11Z 2005 2005 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32433 61718567 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 141 p. 7485237 bytes 7492657 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Design and operation of a counter-rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility
title Design and operation of a counter-rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility
title_full Design and operation of a counter-rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility
title_fullStr Design and operation of a counter-rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility
title_full_unstemmed Design and operation of a counter-rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility
title_short Design and operation of a counter-rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility
title_sort design and operation of a counter rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility
topic Aeronautics and Astronautics.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32433
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