New Refrigeration Compressor Design Offers Improved Efficiency
Purdue University’s orbiting scroll design is driven by a gear mechanism
A compressor design from innovators at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, proposes a new drive mechanism for compressors used for cooling in homes, buildings, airplanes, and cars.
The Purdue team’s new design creates the orbiting motion for scroll compressors, which are commonly used in cooling systems of different sizes. The new design relies on a gear mechanism to create the orbiting motion of a scroll wrap within another stationary scroll wrap to compress a refrigerant.