With an area of more than 1000 square meters and a 3MW compressor station located in the two basements the institute's laboratory has the largest machine installation at Technical University Graz. The three compressors of this station can operate in 13 different configurations, thus providing air for a large variety of experiments and several test rigs.

3MW Compressor Station at the Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics

A turbomachine with the highest possible efficiency needs a careful optimisation including flow analysis, thermodynamics, vibration and material analysis. For this reason the institute needs complex test facilities to experimentally investigate all the different problems involved.

For the experimental investigations the main installation in the laboratory is a 3MW compressor station located in the two basements of the institute, fully acoustically isolated to the environment.

Technical data of the three compressors (maximum engine power consumption: 3.3 MW):

See also:
Pirker,H.P., Jericha, H., Zhuber-Okrog, G., 1995, "Auslegung und Betriebsverhalten einer Verdichteranlage für die Luftversorgung wissenschaftlicher Versuchseinrichtungen", VDI Berichte Nr.1208, pp. 331-347