Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – With indicator or control of power plant
Patent
1996-12-06
1999-06-01
Louis-Jacques, Jacques H.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
With indicator or control of power plant
701 99, 417 6, 415 1, 415 17, 60 3907, 60 3903, G06G 770, F04B 4900
Patent
active
059084626
ABSTRACT:
A turbocompressor's Surge Limit Line, displayed in coordinates of reduced flow rate (q.sub.r) and reduced head (h.sub.r), can be difficult to characterize if the slope of the line is small; that is, nearly horizontal. And it can be especially difficult to characterize if the surge line exhibits a local maximum or minimum, or both. This is often the case with axial compressors having adjustable inlet guide vanes, and for centrifugal compressors with variable inlet guide vanes and diffuser vanes. With their prime objective being the prevention of surge-induced compressor damage and process upsets, antisurge control algorithms should compensate for variations in suction conditions by calculating both the operating point and the Surge Limit Line, utilizing specific (invariant) coordinates derived by using the notations of similitude or dimensional analysis. The result is that the surge limit is invariant (stationary) to suction conditions. This disclosure describes a new method of antisurge control for turbocompressors, which uses combinations of invariant coordinates that differ from those revealed in the prior art. Subsequently, the key to this invention is that any combination (linear or nonlinear) of invariant coordinates is also invariant.
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Compressor Controls Corporation
Louis-Jacques Jacques H.
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