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Turbomachine

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Experimental Contribution to the Mechanics of Herringbone Grooved Journal Air Bearings

Gas Lubricated Herringbone Grooved Journal Bearings (HGJB) have long been used in equipment such as navigation systems, optical scanners for laser printers and high speed cameras and disk spindle for flyhead testers. All such applications are characterized ...

EPFL2011

Characterization of the Flow Generated in an Annular Test Facility

Peter Ott, Dominique Charbonnier, Elia Colombo, Cécile Deslot

Annular cascades are particularly useful to study the three dimensional phenomena encountered in turbomachines. The Non-Rotating Annular Test Facility of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) consists in a radial-axial inlet nozzle a ...

2011

Experimental Evidence of Rotating Stall in a Pump-Turbine at Off-Design Conditions in Generating Mode

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Steven Roth

An experimental investigation of the rotating stall in reduced scale model of a low specific speed radial pump-turbine at runaway and turbine brake conditions in generating mode is achieved. Measurements of wall pressure in the stator are performed along w ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2011

Design, experimental investigation and multi-objective optimization of a small-scale radial compressor for heat pump applications

Daniel Favrat, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

The main driver for small scale turbomachinery in domestic heat pumps is the potential for reaching higher efﬁciencies than volumetric compressors currently used and the potential for making the compressor oil-free, bearing a considerable advantage in the ...

2010

Prototype of a thermally driven heat pump based on integrated organic Rankine cycles (ORC)

Daniel Favrat, Samuel Henchoz, Jonathan Demierre

The concept studied in this work is a low power ORC-ORC system (about 20 kW heat at the condenser) which is composed of an ORC engine cycle driving a reversed ORC heat pump cycle, both using the same fluid. The radial compressor and turbine are directly co ...

2012

Hydroacoustic Simulation of Rotor-Stator Interaction in Resonance Conditions in Francis Pump-Turbine

François Avellan, Christophe Nicolet, Sébastien Alligné, Nicolas Ruchonnet

Combined effect of rotating pressure field related to runner blade and wakes of wicket gates leads to rotor stator interactions, RSI, in Francis pump-turbines. These interactions induce pressures waves propagating in the entire hydraulic machine. Superposi ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2010

Part load flow in radial centrifugal pumps

Centrifugal pumps are required to sustain a stable operation of the system they support under all operating conditions. Minor modifications of the surfaces defining the pump's water passage can influence the tendency to unstable system operation significan ...

EPFL2009

SURFACE ROUGHNESS IMPACT ON FRANCIS TURBINE PERFORMANCES AND PREDICTION OF EFFICIENCY STEP UP

François Avellan, Pierre Maruzewski, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Henri-Pascal Mombelli

In the process of turbine modernizations, the investigation of the influences of water passage roughness on radial flow machine performance is crucial and validates the efficiency step up between reduced scale model and prototype. This study presents the s ...

2009

Surface Roughness Impact on Francis Turbine Performances and Prediction of Efficiency Step Up

François Avellan, Pierre Maruzewski, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Henri-Pascal Mombelli

International Association For Hydraulic Research2008