 Turbo expander is a centrifugal or axial

flow turbine through which a high pressure gas is

expanded to produce work.
 Widely used as sources of refrigeration in industrial
processes and liquefaction of gases such
as oxygen, nitrogen, helium, argon and krypton.
 Turbine wheel is of radial or mixed flow geometry,
i.e. the flow enters the wheel radially and exits
axially.
 Suitable for moderately mass flow rate, high head
and low power application.
The main components are:

1. Nozzle ring.
2. Turbine wheel.
3. Diffuser.
4. Shaft.
5. Brake compressor.
6. Thrust bearing.
7. Journal Bearing.
 Building computational fluid dynamic knowledge
base on cryogenic turboexpanders.
 Construction of a computational fluid flow model
and study of its performance.
 Comparision between performance of radial blade
and backward radial blade.
.
For the computational studies, a turboexpander system
has been taken with the following specifications:

Working fluid : Nitrogen

Turbine inlet temperature : 99.65 K
Turbine inlet pressure : 3 bar
Turbine outlet pressure : 1.28 bar
Mass flow rate : 0. 024kg/ s
 This project deals with the computational fluid
flow analysis of high speed expansion turbine.

 Involves with the three dimensional

analysis of flow through a radial expansion
turbine using nitrogen as flowing fluid.
Generate Hub and Shroud curve on solidworks
Blade generation using BladeGen
Meshing by TurboGrid
CFX pre used to input the boundary condition
CFX post used to analyse the result
Validate design
Compare the performance between radial and backward radial turbine blade
ANSYS BladeGen is a geometry creation tool that is
specialized for turbo machinery blades. Bladegen
designing of model is done by using available hub, shroud
and blade profile coordinates.
Wheel diameter : 16.0 mm
Eye tip diameter : 10.8 mm
Eye Hub Diameter : 4.6 mm
Number of Blades : 10
Thickness of Blades : 0.6 mm
• By joining the hub and tip streamlines with a set of tie
lines a surface is created , considered as mean surface
within a blade.
• Non Uniform Rational B Splines are used to develop the
solid surface.
• After making all the surfaces when blade merge topology
property is used, then blade faces will be merged where
they are tangent to one another.
• Create all blades this property is used to create all the
blades using the number of blades specified in the
Bladegen model.
1. Ghosh, S.K., Seshaiah, N., Sahoo, R.K., Sarangi,
S.K. Design of Turboexpander for Cryogenic
applications, Indian Journal of Cryogenics, Special
Issue - Vol.2, 75-81,(2005)
2. Ghosh, S.k. “Experimental and Computational
Studies on Cryogenic Turboexpander” Ph.D
dissertation, NIT Rourkela.
3. Ghosh, S.K., Sahoo, R.K., Sarangi, S.K.
“Computational Geometry for the Blades and
Internal Flow Channels of Cryogenic Turbine.”