Thermal

Gas compressors for downhole or offshore applications must remain robust and retain capability when working in extreme temperatures.

Corac has developed analytical approaches to quantify and model thermal behaviours. Combined with decades of design, practical test data and experience, this enables us to enhance system efficiencies in an innovative approach to design, maintaining the function, integrity and efficiency of our engineering solutions.

Gas compressors and electrical machines generate heat and it is necessary to dissipate this heat through controlled or managed flow paths, preventing overheating, melting or failure of critical components. In high speed machines, where the changes in magnetic flux density and electrical current direction occur very quickly, large thermal gradients can develop and increase rapidly. Corac has developed a detailed understanding of the thermal behaviour of such machines and heat flow within complex components and systems, which is essential in high speed machine or system design.

Smart compressor solutions

Understanding the principles of heat transfer to and from a wide range of materials allows us to apply our knowledge to high speed machines, giving us the capability to design solutions that will influence or change the behaviour of a system in response to a variety of challenging circumstances.

Permanent magnet motors are very compact and have a high energy density. The management of heat transfer in these devices is more demanding than for conventional machines and external influences, such as the heat of gas compression by an impeller, windage and churning effects, make the design more complex.

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