{"id":198,"date":"2024-06-27T07:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T07:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=198"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:11:30","slug":"actual-p-v-diagram-for-single-stage-compressor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/me\/power-plant\/actual-p-v-diagram-for-single-stage-compressor","title":{"rendered":"Actual P-V Diagram for Single-Stage Compressor"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Theoretical p-V diagram\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 (1-2-3-4)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Theoretical inlet valve should open at point \u20184\u2019 but in practice it is not opening at point \u20184\u2019, due to the following two main reasons:<\/p>\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\r\n<li>Pressure difference is required across the inlet valve in order to move it.<\/li>\r\n<li>Inlet valve inertia\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>So <strong>negative pressure difference<\/strong> is required to open the valve and called as <strong>intake depression<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n<li>Similar situation occurs at 2, at the beginning of delivery stroke. Compressed air is delivered into receiver and hence external delivery pressure is also known as <strong>receiver pressure.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>Gas inertia and turbulence also affecting the inlet and delivery.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/actual-compressor-p-v-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"Actual Compressor PV Diagram\" width=\"292\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actual p-V Diagram of for Two Stage Compressor<\/h3>\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\r\n<li>Inertia and friction effects, which results in valve flattering and increase the area of diagram slightly and hence their effects is to increase the total work of compression.<\/li>\r\n<li>LP and HP diagram overlap due to pressure drop in intercooler.<\/li>\r\n<li>Wavy lines during induction and delivery strokes are due to \u201cFlatter\u201d of valve\u2019s disc.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/two-stage-compressor.jpg\" alt=\"Actual p-V Diagram of for Two Stage Compressor \" width=\"265\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reciprocating Compressors<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Greater vibration problem.<\/li>\r\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mechanical efficiency is lower compare to rotary compressor because of several sliding and bearing members.<\/li>\r\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pressure ratio per state is <strong>5 to 8<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delivery volume is small (250 \u2013 300 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/min) compared to rotary compressor (2000 \u2013 3000 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/min).<\/li>\r\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Compression efficiency is high at compression ratio above 2.<\/li>\r\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reciprocating air compressors<\/strong> are having <strong>isothermal compression<\/strong> where as <strong>Rotary air compressors<\/strong> are having <strong>isentropic compression<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/power-plant\/what-is-the-effect-of-clearance-volume-on-compressor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a> | <a class=\"btn btn-success\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/power-plant\/what-is-rotary-compressors-and-its-types\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Next &gt;&gt;<\/a> <br \/><strong> Must Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/subjects\/what-is-power-plant-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is Power Plant Engineering?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical p-V diagram\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 (1-2-3-4) Theoretical inlet valve should open at point \u20184\u2019 but in practice it is not opening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,10],"tags":[67,64,68,65,66],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power-plant","category-me","tag-actual-p-v","tag-actual-pv-diagram","tag-diagram-for-single-stage-compressor","tag-p-v-diagram-for-single-stage-compressor","tag-single-stage-compressor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}