Conventional compressor bearings - for example, leaded-bronze, rolling element or bi-metal bushings - will be significantly affected by wear in marginally lubricated environments at bearing locations ...

Polymer bearings incorporating a PTFE-based running surface were viewed as a step forward in scroll compressor performance when they were initially introduced around three decades ago. These polymer ...

Contractors familiar with oil-lubricated compressors may want to start thinking magnetically. Turbocor, from Montreal, PQ, Canada, is introducing a compact centrifugal compressor that uses magnetic ...

Approach provides way for designers to assess losses in the driving bearing in compressors and optimize their efficiency ...

If a tech arrives on a job site, discovers a failed compressor, and installs a replacement without first trying to determine the source of the failure, he or she has done a gross disservice to that ...

Dr. Boedo's primary research area focuses on the development of new computational methods and new design guidelines for dynamically loaded conformal fluid-film bearing systems. He currently studies ...