Author(s)

Miguel Toledo-Velázquez^1*, Raúl Cruz-Vicencio², Juan Abugaber-Francis¹, Juan Carlos Anzelmetti-Zaragoza²

¹Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Laboratorio de Ingeniería Térmica e Hidráulica Aplicada (LABINTHAP), Unidad Profesional “Adolfo López Mateos”, Ciudad de México, México.
²Universidad Veracruzana, Escuela de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Unidad Poza Rica-Tuxpan, Veracruz, México.

Different experiments in high speed turbomachines require expensive and sophisticated infrastructure to implement their impulsion and reach high regimes. In developed countries, this can be achieved by using aeroderivative gas turbines or DC motors of about 400 HP. This paper presents an experimental system designed and built with the intention of performing behavior studies in test turbomachinery. The proposed installation uses compressed air as driving fluid, which allows the turbomachinery to reach high rotational speeds where very important phenomena occur. An analysis is carried out considering the rotational speed behavior of an internal combustion engine turbocharger of the Perkins series when it is driven by pressures ranging from 4.2 kg/cm² to zero. Additionally, another experiment couples an automotive electrical generator with the turbine to observe the system operation when a load is applied. The behavior of the pressure is analyzed when it is in function of the time of air discharge that goes from a compressed air storage tank to the turbocharger for its impulsion. This is an experimental system that can be designed and constructed economically within the bounds of any public university.

Turbomachinery, Compressed air, Turbocharger, Vorticity

Toledo-Velázquez, M. , Cruz-Vicencio, R. , Abugaber-Francis, J. and Anzelmetti-Zaragoza, J. (2017) Analysis of the Behavior of a Turbomachine Driven by a Compressed Air System. Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, 5, 1-13. doi: 10.4236/jpee.2017.55001.