Short Course on

ADVANCED METHODS AND TOOLS IN COMPRESSOR DESIGN

City University, London, 3-4 September 2005

Organised prior to the 4^th International Conference on Compressors and Their Systems,

City University, London, 4-7 September 2005

This is a 2-day course dedicated to both new and established designers, design engineers, design managers and others involved in the production of positive displacement machines. In it, the role of research, throughout the entire design process, will be examined, together with methods and tools for the integrated, concurrent and fully parametrically oriented design of positive displacement compressors. It will also include a presentation of compressor development by a successful international company.

The leading experts in the design research, design of screw compressors and the development of refrigeration compressors will give lectures and tutorials. Participants will be given the opportunity to evaluate new design software DISCO, which integrates design tools and data for screw compressor development.

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  Objectives

  Program

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·         To help design engineers and managers develop their own methods to obtain the best results from their research in and development of positive displacement machines.

·         To outline the importance of problem solving ability in design and to show how design skills can be increased with the help of design research.

·         To present a newly developed integrated design tool which embodies all phases of the design of screw compressors and supports their fully parametric concurrent design.

·         To give an outline of the methods and tools used for scroll compressor design in industry through the example of a successful worldwide compressor manufacturer.

Saturday, 3^rd September 9,00-16,00

09⁰⁰- 09⁰⁵                    Welcome

09⁰⁵-10⁴⁵                     Increasing the intelligence of designing by design research

                                                Prof Dr. Imre Horváth

10⁴⁵-11⁰⁰                     Coffee break

11⁰⁰-12⁴⁰                     Basic methods and tools for the design of screw compressors

                                          Dr Ahmed Kovacevic

12⁴⁰-14⁰⁰                     Lunch

14⁰⁰-15⁴⁰                     Scroll compressors - Introduction, Historical Background, Today’s Design Process

                                          Dr Guy Hundy

15⁴⁰-16⁰⁰                     Coffee

Sunday, 4^th September 9,00-16,00

09⁰-10⁴⁰                      Methods of design research, industrial examples and exercises

                                                Prof Dr. Imre Horváth

10⁴⁰-11⁰⁰                     Coffee break

11⁰⁰-12⁴⁰                     Design Integration for Screw Compressors-application, example

                                          Dr Ahmed Kovacevic

12⁴⁰-14⁰⁰                     Lunch

14⁰⁰-15⁴⁰                     Scroll Design in the Refrigeration Compressor Industry - Specific Aspects and User Requirements

                                          Dr Guy Hundy

15⁴⁰-16⁰⁰                     Coffee

16¹⁰-17⁰⁰                     Tutorial on the use of DISCO software

                                                Dr Ahmed Kovacevic, Mr Elvedin Mujic

19⁰⁰-21⁰⁰                     4^th International Conference on Compressors and their Systems – Reception and Early Registration

Professor of Computer Aided Design and Engineering at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and the Director of Research of the Faculty. His primary research interests are in philosophical and theoretical aspects of design research, computer support of conceptual design, new system interfaces, vague discrete modelling of shape families, multi-physics-based behavioural simulation, free-form boundary prototyping, and formalisation and structuring of design knowledge. As an educator he is currently interested in computer applications in conceptual design, integrating research into design education, and teleconferencing-based active learning.

Previously Director, Application Engineering of Copeland Europe and currently President of the Institute of Refrigeration. He has extensive experience of design and its application to refrigeration compressors, with particular expertise in the field of compressor performance and efficiency in commercial refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps.

Senior lecturer in Mechanical Design at City University in London. His main research interests are in the integration of computer aided design for positive displacement compressors, Computational Continuum Mechanics in positive displacement machines, research and development of positive displacement compressors with the main focus on screw compressors. As educator he is interested in engineering and mechanical design principles, integration of design methods and tools by use of computers and the international collaborative educational programme.

The fee for the course is £300 for conference delegates and £400 for those attending course only.

The fee includes lecture materials on CD and in the paper form, refreshments, lunches and the evaluation copy of DISCO software with the training lesson.

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