Time-frequency analysis of the Surge Onset in the Centrifugal Blower

Abstract

Time frequency analysis of the surge onset was performed in the centrifugal blower. A pressure signal was registered at the blower inlet, outlet and three locations at the impeller shroud. The time-frequency scalograms were obtained by means of the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). The blower was found to successively operate in four different conditions: stable working condition, inlet recirculation, transient phase and deep surge. Scalograms revealed different spectral structures of aforementioned phases and suggest possible ways of detecting the surge predecessors.

Keywords

• compressor
• blower
• surge
• unstable flow
• time-frequency
• continuous wavelet transform
• CWT