HVACR compressor manufacturers strive to deliver high levels of reliability, comfort, and efficiency in a market that also demands low cost and compliance with environmental laws. But now, more than ...

Compressed air is critical in many industrial and nonindustrial applications, including powering pneumatic tools and conveyor systems, cleaning equipment and airfilling amusement park objects. While ...

Compressor efficiency might not sound like the most exciting topic in the world, but consider this: the hotter the world gets – and the wealthier its developing countries become – the more air ...

Compressed air is a vital utility to most commercial and industrial operations. It runs essential tools and machinery, provides power to material-handling systems, and clean air to processes. Yet ...

Compressor speed as a function of molecular weight, while maintaining the same suction and discharge pressure and mass flow rate. Polytropic head and efficiencies as a function of gas molecular weight ...

Part-load efficiency is rapidly becoming the most important measure of energy efficiency in chiller units. Around the world, new environmental standards are increasingly based on a combined part-load ...

Gas turbines are critical in modern power generation and propulsion systems, with compressor performance being paramount to overall efficiency. Compressor airfoils and blades, essential for ...

Achieving optimum efficiency from an air compressor requires properly sizing it to the application. This calls for at least a basic understanding of the variables involved. “There are two variances ...

Economic analyses demonstrate the operational benefits of using particular energy recovery and scrubber technologies on natural gas transmission systems. The first article of this series, presented ...