SBIR Phase I: High Efficiency Near Isothermal Rotary Compressor for Improved Efficiency in Industrial Manufacturing

SBIR 第一阶段：高效近等温旋转式压缩机，提高工业制造效率

• 批准号: 1143151
• 负责人: Jeremy Pitts
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: OsComp Systems
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1143151&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Efficiency; Near; Isothermal

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to further develop a breakthrough compression technology for industrial compressed air applications. We have developed an innovative hybrid-rotor geometry which leads to extremely high power density and enables the use of a proprietary liquid injection system that can directly cool the gas as it is compressed, leading to near isothermal compression. This combination can result in an increase of over 30% in efficiency and an order of magnitude higher compression ratio than is achievable with conventional compression technology. The key objectives of this effort are to verify the technology's applicability in industrial compressed air applications and build and test a full-scale prototype to validate performance models. The successful completion of this project will lead to the commercialization of a product that will provide a step-change in the performance of industrial compressed air systems. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is widespread. Industrial users are responsible for approximately one-third of all power consumption in the US, or around one trillion kilowatt-hours per year. Ten percent of all industrial power use, or roughly 100 billion kilowatt-hours per year, is consumed in the production of compressed air, with that percentage going as high as 20% in certain process-intensive industries. The technology being investigated in this proposal has the potential to improve the efficiency of air compressors by over 30%. Combining these savings with other system-level improvements could reduce the power required to run compressed air systems by a factor of two. Along with the dramatic potential for energy savings, there is also an enormous market for compressors, with 2007 worldwide shipments of air and gas compressors approaching $10 billion. New compressors used in industrial air applications were worth $600 million in the US alone in 2009. A higher efficiency compressor has the potential to capture a large share of this market. Finally, this technology could also be applied for other compression and turbomachinery applications, with far-reaching impact and enormous commercial potential.

该小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目旨在进一步开发用于工业压缩空气应用的突破性压缩技术。我们开发了一种创新的混合转子几何结构，可实现极高的功率密度，并可使用专有的液体喷射系统，该系统可在气体压缩时直接冷却气体，从而实现近等温压缩。 这种组合可以导致效率增加超过30%，并且压缩比传统压缩技术高一个数量级。 这项工作的主要目标是验证该技术在工业压缩空气应用中的适用性，并构建和测试全尺寸原型以验证性能模型。 该项目的成功完成将导致一种产品的商业化，这将为工业压缩空气系统的性能提供一个台阶式的变化。该项目的广泛影响/商业潜力是广泛的。工业用户约占美国所有电力消耗的三分之一，即每年约1万亿千瓦时。 所有工业用电量的10%，即每年约1000亿千瓦时，用于生产压缩空气，在某些工艺密集型行业，这一比例高达20%。 该提案中正在研究的技术有可能将空气压缩机的效率提高30%以上。 将这些节省与其他系统级改进相结合，可以将运行压缩空气系统所需的功率减少两倍。 沿着巨大的节能潜力，压缩机也有巨大的市场，2007年全球空气和气体压缩机的出货量接近100亿美元。 2009年，仅在美国，用于工业空气应用的新压缩机就价值6亿美元。 更高效率的压缩机有可能占据该市场的大部分份额。 最后，这项技术还可以应用于其他压缩和压缩应用，具有深远的影响和巨大的商业潜力。