SISTEMA PARA AUMENTO DA CAPACIDADE DE UM COMPRESSOR DE GAS E PROCESSO APERFEICOADO PARA AUMENTO DA CAPACIDADE DE FLUXO DE GAS DE UM COMPRESSOR DE GAS

摘要

Apparatus and method for increasing the capacity of a gas compressor. The apparatus comprises a supercharger for compressing a gas flow and an evaporative cooler for cooling and ducting the supercharged gas flow to the gas compressor. The cooler comprises a section of pipe connecting the supercharger and the compressor. Mounted on the wall of the pipe are nozzles oriented upstream to atomize water into droplets of mean diameter ranging from about 4 to about 12 microns. The pipe is sized to provide a residence time of from about 0.1 to about 0.5 seconds for the droplets in the gas flow.