DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

PROJECT REVIEW

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ON SCREW COMPRESSOR

PROJECT DONE BY :
1.DINESH A.J 2.GIKKU DEVASSIA 3.HIFNI NAZAR N 4.JAINJO C THOMAS 5.JAMSHEER K.P. 3440810171 3440810194 3440810208 3440810216 3440810218

GUIDED BY : PROF. S .RAJA

INTRODUCTION
Screw compressors are same as piston compressors in the principle of the rise of the air pressure, one rotor acts as a piston and other forms as cylinder in screw compressor and both belong to positive displacement compressors.

WORKING PRINCIPLE
Screw compressor has a helical male rotor lobe & female rotor flute assembled in a stator Suction created due to unmeshing of male & female rotor. At the time of compression happens air is sucked through the inlet port and gets compressed through the compressor and exhausted through the Exhaust port

TYPES
Oil flooded compressors
Cools the compressor Lubricates the bearings and

Oil Free compressors

Air does not contact the

gears Seals the air leakage paths, improves efficiency

lubricating oil and the rotors dont contact directly and remain space between each other. Male rotors drive female rotors through timing gear and it keeps the space between rotors.

SCREW COMPRESSOR DESIGN

Design of screws
Selection of bearings

Selection of seals

THEORETICAL APPROACH TO CALCULATE THE CLEARANCES Sealing line length Blowhole area Radial clearance Interlopes clearance Axial clearance

SEALING LINE

BLOWHOLE AREA

When the male and The tip of the contact line of the rotor usually can female rotors of not reach the intersecting

screw compressors mesh, The surfaces of two rotors contact with each other forming a space curve which is sealing line.

line between the cylinder holes of the male and female rotors, and form a space curve triangle between the top of contact line and rotor cylinder hole of the case, which is called blowhole area.

OPERATING AXIAL CLEARANCE

It is the function of cold

OPERATING INTER-LOBE CLEARANCE

It is the function of cold

clearance set during the assembly, internal clearance of the axial bearing, thermal expansion of the shaft housing between axial bearing and discharge end face

clearance set during the assembly, internal clearance of the radial bearing, thermal expansion of the rotor thermal expansion of housing bore, torsional deformation of rotors and operating backlash of the gears.

OPERATING RADIAL CLEARANCE

It is function of cold clearance set during the assembly; internal clearance of the radial bearing thermal expansion of the rotor and housing bore.

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

Finite element method is the most popular numeric

technique to solve continuum-engineering problem It occupies predominant role and have a significant impact in the industry The actual structure is replaced by a conceptual model, which we can call as finite element method. Based on the principles of discretization and numeric approximation to solve scientific and engineering problem, which are fact of the life

GENERAL PROCEDURE OF THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

Define Physical Proplem
FEM(Generate nodes,Elemenets,boundry condition,material properties,loads,date files)

FEM(Generate nodes,Elements,Matrices, Compute nodal value and Derivatives,Store Result)

Analyses Result ( Display curves, Deformed

shapes)

DISCRETIZATION
The essence o the finite element method is to divide a

continuum, that is, Problem domain, in to quasidisjoint non-overlapping elements. This is achieved by replacing the continuum by a set of key. Points called nodes, which then connected properly produces the elements. the collection of nodes and element shapes and types are available As a general rule, the larger the number of nodes and elements, the more accurate the finite element solution

SELECT THE SOLUTION APPROXIMATION

The variation of unknown (called field variable) in the

problem approximated within each element by polynomial The field variable may be a scalar or vector (Displacement) The degree of polynomial depends on the number of nodes per element, the number of unknown at each node.

SOLVE FOR THE UNKNOWN AT THE NODES

The globe system of algebric equation is solved by

gauss elimination method to provide the value of the field variable at the nodes of the finite element mesh. Values of the field variable and their derivatives at the nodes form the complete finite element solution of the original continuum problem before discretization values at other point in side continuum other than the nodes are possible to obtain although It is not customarily done

INTERPRET THE RESULT

The final step is to analyze the solution and

result obtained from the previous step to make design decisions

SPECIFICATION OF THE COMPRESSOR

SI NO PARAMETER UNIT SPECIFICATION

FAD

CFM

230

SHAFT POWER

KW

30

TEMP DIFF OF AIR

25

TEMP DIFF OF OIL

40

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EN-8

The rotor has been manufactured from Extrusion steel rod.
SI NO PARAMETERS SYMPOL VALUE

Density

g/cc

7.85

Hardness

Mpa

510

Tensile strength

Mpa

245

Yield strength

Mpa

530

Pro-E Model