- Title
- Optimum positioning of ports in the limaon gas expanders
- Creator
- Sultan, Ibrahim; Schaller, Carl
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/58929
- Identifier
- vital:4076
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4003195
- Identifier
- ISSN:0742-4795
- Abstract
- Positive displacement expanders are quickly gaining popularity in the fields of micropower generation and refrigeration engineering. Unlike turbomachines, expanders can handle two-phase flow applications at low speed and flow rate levels. This paper is concerned with a simple-design positive displacement expander based on the lima̧on of Pascal. The paper offers an insight into the thermodynamic workings of the limaison gas expander and presents a mathematical model to describe the manner in which the port locations affect the expander performance. A stochastic optimization technique is adopted to find the locations, for the expander ports, which produce best expander performance for given chamber dimensions. The operating speed and other parameters will be held constant during the optimization procedure. A case study is offered in this paper to prove the validity of the presented approach, and comments are given on how various operating parameters affect system performance in the limaison design. © 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- Relation
- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power Vol. 133, no. 10 (2011), p.
- Rights
- Copyright ASME
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 0913 Mechanical Engineering; Gas expanders; Low speed; Micropower generation; Operating parameters; Operating speed; Optimization procedures; Optimum positioning; Positive displacement; Stochastic optimization techniques; Turbomachines; Mathematical models; Multiphase flow; Optimization
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