Abstract
Rotary compressors have been employed in heating and cooling for more than a century and are ubiquitous in daily life but there has not been any comprehensive record of their development and technological advances. This review paper attempts to provide a comprehensive account of the advances in R&D and design evolution of these rotary compressors since their inception, namely the sliding vane compressor, rolling piston compressor, and their design variants in open literature. This is to showcase the current state-of-the-art for these compressors so that researchers can use it as a basis for future work. Based on authors’ insight, inter-disciplinary research combined with advancements in ‘disruptive’ technology such as artificial intelligence and advancements in additive manufacturing might be a promising research direction to bring about improvements in rotary compressor performance to meet mankind’s growing needs for cooling and heating applications.
Highlights
The vapor-compression system was first invented in 1834 by Jacob Perkins but it was not until 1856 when James Harrison found commercial success with his vapor-compressionCitation: Aw, K.T.; Ooi, K.T
This review focuses on the development of the positive displacement compressors, in particular the rotary vane compressors
When powerful computational resources became more readily available, more comprehensive 2 and 3 dimensional spatial and time dependent models began to surface, giving rise to finite element modeling (FEM) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling studies. Both FEM and CFD models can be combined into a fluid–solid interaction (FSI) coupled analysis to study their effects on each other
Summary
Review on Sliding Vane and Rolling refrigeration system [1]. Piston Compressors. Simplified mathematical models assuming ideal gas, adiabatic, and perfectly sealed processes were formulated It was only later when computational power improved, more comprehensive mathematical models were developed to include physical phenomena such as heat transfer and leakage for accuracy. Both FEM and CFD models can be combined into a fluid–solid interaction (FSI) coupled analysis to study their effects on each other These computational simulation studies were extremely useful in visualizing fluid and/or heat flow to better understand the intricacies compressors. This review is about theavailable research and development of rotary vane vane positive displacement compressors available in open literature, focusing sliding rotors) vane and rolling rolling piston compressors with their design variants.
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