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Condenser temperature
You would be aware that the exhaust from a condensing turbine is saturated, so the temperature is a pure function of pressure. A typical design exhaust pressure is -80 kPaG, corresponding with 61 deg C.- KiwiBob
- Post #2
- Forum: Machines & Machining engineering
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liquid carry over to compressor
Slugging a centrifugal compressor with liquid will clearly do damage - my own experience is knowing of one machine in an ethylene plant in France that had neither high level cutouts nor vibration protection. In that case a gearbox had the teeth stripped (the configuration was...- KiwiBob
- Post #10
- Forum: Heat Transfer & Thermodynamics engineering
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Centrifugal Compressor Curves Correction
There are many locations to find this sort of detailed information (like the various centrifugal compressor vendors), but the one fundamental piece of advice that I would give you is that an impeller has one characteristic curve for a given speed, when actual inlet volume (in say m3/h)is plotted...- KiwiBob
- Post #6
- Forum: Pump engineering
