[Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of three columns about scroll compressors that began in the Sept. 1 issue of The NEWS and continued in the Oct. 6 issue.] Compressor capacity control is ...

Installing a recycle valve in parallel with the antisurge valve of a turbine-driven multistage (low pressure/high pressure) centrifugal compressor, in combination with control system modifications, ...

The service technician cannot control many factors that affect a reciprocating compressor’s capacity. However, the tech can control a few factors that can help the system have more capacity and run ...

Many power plants use older control valve technologies that do not address the severe nature of today’s power plant operations. The older design valves require constant maintenance and their ...

Compressor surge occurs when flow is too low with respect to the change of pressure of the compressor or when ΔP is too high with respect to the flow. A decreasing flow coupled with an increasing ∆P, ...