ASME PTC 10
Performance Test Code on Compressors and Exhausters
| Organization: | ASME |
| Publication Date: | 1 January 1997 |
| Status: | active |
| Page Count: | 204 |
scope:
The scope of this Code includes instructions on test arrangement and instrumentation, test procedure, and methods for evaluation and reporting of final results.
Rules are provided for establishing the following quantities, corrected as necessary to represent expected performance under specified operating conditions with the specified gas:
(a) quantity of gas delivered
(b) pressure rise produced
(c) head
(d) shaft power required
(e) efficiency
(f) surge point
(g) choke point
Other than providing methods for calculating mechanical power losses, this Code does not cover rotor dynamics or other mechanical performance parameters
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