Fixed Flow Rate Compressor

Fixed Flow Rate Compressors are a subtype of Positive Displacement Compressors that provide a fixed flow for steady-state analysis. This allows for a fixed flow to be defined in a straightforward manner. With a Fixed Flow Rate Compressor, a transient can be defined in terms of flow setpoint varied over time.

Parameter

• Volumetric Flow Rate - Fix the volumetric flow rate at the inlet of the compressor. Due to compressibility effects, the outlet volumetric flow rate may differ.

• Mass Flow Rate - Fix the mass flow rate through the compressor.

Fixed Condition

• Fixed Flow Rate - The value and unit of the fixed flow amount.

• Nominal Efficiency - A fixed efficiency, useful to calculate power requirements. The positive displacement compressor thermodynamics will be treated as adiabatic regardless of the defined efficiency value.