ベーン形圧縮機におけるベーン背圧とその計算モデル

抄録

Vane type compressors pressurize a back-pressure chamber of the vane to keep a contact between a vane tip and a stator wall. It is important to apply appropriate pressure to the back-pressure chamber in order to prevent the excessive friction at the vane tip or the chattering phenomenon. However, the determination of the pressure is so complicated that it has been designed empirically or experimentally. In this study, the back-pressure is measured with visualizing a plate groove to which the back-pressure chamber is connected. The plate groove is filled with the mixture of oil and refrigerant gas, and the void fraction in it increases with the rotational speed. The back-pressure decreases with increasing the rotational speed and the influence of the discharge pressure on the back-pressure is larger than that of the suction pressure. It is found that the leakage through the rotor face is one of the dominant factors and it can be modeled by using the time averaged pressure distribution on the rotor circumference. The calculated results by the mathematical model developed in this study agree well with the experimental results under several conditions.