--- title: How Johnson Controls is Optimizing Volute Design in a Centrifugal Compressor for Industrial Cooling description: Johnson Controls used TURBOdesign Volute to redesign and optimize the volute for some of their YORK® centrifugal compressors. Discover more in this case study! image: https://blog.adtechnology.com/hubfs/Collateral%20Planning/Case%20Studies/Johnson%20Controls/Blog_banner%20Johnson%20Controls%20Case%20Study.png --- [![](https://blog.adtechnology.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-4.png?width=239&height=66&name=logo-4.png)](http://adtechnology.com) # How Johnson Controls is Optimizing Volute Design in a Centrifugal Compressor for Industrial Cooling By [Mehrdad Zangeneh](https://blog.adtechnology.com/author/mehrdad-zangeneh) [Compressors](https://blog.adtechnology.com/topic/compressors) [TURBOdesign Suite](https://blog.adtechnology.com/topic/turbodesign-suite) [Volute Design](https://blog.adtechnology.com/topic/volute-design) February 11, 2022 Johnson Controls is a global manufacturer of heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and refrigeration products. JCI equipment is installed in universities, hospitals, office buildings, airports, marine vessels and residences. JCI also manufactures refrigeration and gas-compression equipment for processing food processing, beverage, chemicals and petrochemical industries. Johnson Controls’ YORK® centrifugal compressors are high capacity and in use in many large, well-known buildings across the world. Johnson Controls used TURBOdesign Volute to redesign and optimize the volute for some of their YORK® centrifugal compressors. The design of a centrifugal compressor for industrial cooling applications faces two main challenges: high aerodynamic efficiency and compact packaging. TURBOdesign Volute was able to meet these challenges and generated a reduction in overall size of 8% and improved head and efficiency at the design point of 0.8% and 0.4% respectively, when compared to the existing design.   ![Volute](https://blog.adtechnology.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Collateral%20Planning/Case%20Studies/Johnson%20Controls/Volute.png?width=544&name=Volute.png)Fig. 1. 3D solid model of a volute generated by TURBOdesign Volute.   The reduction in size was generated by switching from a circular cross-section to an elliptical one, combined with a change in volute cross-sectional areas distribution and different packaging. The optimum area distribution was obtained as a result of several design/analysis iterations and the main target of the area re-distribution was compressor efficiency. This is where TURBOdesign Volute offered the main advantage of outputting a 3D model of the volute that could be sent to a meshing software in a couple of steps. The entire process, from new inputs to TURBOdesign Volute to solid model, took less than 15 minutes. Fig. 1. shows an example of a 3D volute ready for meshing. As a result, an optimized volute could be generated in a day. By comparison, using the older methodology and creating the solid model from ground-up took several days per iteration. To discover how TURBOdesign Volute is revolutionizing volute design, we invite you to download your free copy of the case study below.   [![Download the case study](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2115715/59adf055-1851-4f2e-b11a-87bcd573a9ce.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2115715/59adf055-1851-4f2e-b11a-87bcd573a9ce) ### Book a LIVE demo on the design of a turbomachinery application of your choice. 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