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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2015
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Vit Houst, Sestajovice, CZ;
William Joseph Smith, Gardena, CA (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling an inlet-adjustment mechanism in an air inlet for a compressor so as to switch the mechanism in a binary fashion between two positions Pand Pfor adjusting a flow area of the inlet. The method includes identifying a threshold line on a compressor map of pressure ratio versus corrected flow rate for the compressor. The threshold line is a line on which the pressure ratio and flow rate of the compressor are the same for the Pand Ppositions of the inlet-adjustment mechanism at equal speeds. When the operating point of the compressor on the compressor map crosses the threshold line, the inlet-adjustment mechanism is switched from one of its binary positions to the other.