Iainuts, thank you so much for your answer! Having recalculated the power required, and taking into consideration what you said about increasing motor size in the absence of a flywheel, i get a much more reasonable value.
Thanks again for the helpful post and happy new year!
Hi tomato5, thanks for the offer of help, and everyone else for the responses. It turns out i was mistaken in the original post. Technically the compressor is three stage as the inlet pressure is '7 Bar'.
Each stage is intercooled. I was just trying to figure out the power required assuming...
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I have been trying to calculate the theoretical power required for compression of a small portable 2 stage air compressor with the following spec.
Volume flow rate Q = 2x10-5 m3/s
Inlet pressure P1 = 1 Bar (105Pa)
Outlet pressure = 200 Bar
interstage pressure Px = 14 Bar
k = 1.4
N =...
