Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : November 12, 2016 - November 13, 2016
The characteristics and the transition process of rotating stall behavior, which were followed by the decline of flow rate, in centrifugal compressor with vaned diffuser were investigated through experimental analysis. Measurements showed that impeller and diffuser rotating stall occurred at 55 Hz and 25 Hz, during off-design point at ϕ=0.14. Furthermore, stage stall, which rotated within impeller and diffuser passages, occurred at 22 Hz and ϕ=0.10. According to the measurement of the pressure and velocity at the diffuser inlet, the flow field was divided into three behaviors at ϕ=0.10. At the “pre-stage stall” condition, the diffuser stall was enlarged and hub-side local blockage emerged behind the scroll tongue in vaneless space. This blockage induced a static pressure rise on the shroud wall and a deceleration of radial velocity on the hub side. The diffuser stall moved into the impeller passage because of the blockage and caused the stage stall.
