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Air compression values

Air compression values

Air compression values

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This may appear to be a silly question, but I would like to know what pressure would be be achieved if you were to compress, in one stroke, a cylinder with a volume of 1 litre, containing 1 litre of air at atmospheric pressure. The stroke value or movement will reduce the cylinder volume by 50% to 0.5 litre.
Thank you in anticipation.

RE: Air compression values

2 atm

RE: Air compression values

2 incase of isothermal(if the process is slow) and 2.639 if it is adiabatic(if the process is fast)

RE: Air compression values

Hello everyone,
this is my first time with any group such as "eng-tips" so I hope I'm using the correct procedure.

I'm trying to find out how to calculate the diameter and legth of the piston rod for a reciprocating gas compressor (natural gas) with the following statistics.
Stroke                300mm
inlet pressure        52.00 BARA
discharge pressure    240 BARA
Speed                 350 RPM
Flow Rate             19,000 Nm/hr
Power                 1400 kW

RE: Air compression values

GBMax,
You really should start a new thread with a new question.  You can copy and paste from the above into a new thread with a new name.

Changing topics within a thread is seldom a good idea since it makes manual searches impossible (and many automated searches will be skipped since the title of the thread doesn't match your question).

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RE: Air compression values

Max:

Firstly, since this is your first time on this Forum, you are not using the correct procedure.  This thread was started by terravent for another totally different topic and it belongs to him/her.  You should start your own thread, specifically for the purpose you outline.

I can easily show you how to calculate the diameter of a required compressor piston for a reciprocating compressor.  I can’t calculate the “legth” (sic) or length of the piston rod – and neither can anyone else.  The length of the piston rod is determined by the compressor manufacturer and is independent of the gas-end calculations.  It is dependent on the mechanical work, type of design, and the forces imposed on the machine.

What you have to give us is the inlet gas flowrate at the suction temperature and pressure, the stroke of the piston, the strokes per minute (or rpm), the volumetric efficiency of the cylinder, single-acting or double-acting, and the piston rod diameter if double-acting.  You state that you have 19,000 Nm/hr of natural gas, but you don’t identify what you mean by “normal”.  Do you mean Nm3/hr as measured at 0 oC & 1 atmosphere?  There are at least three conventions in common use.



I’ll look forward to your posting.

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