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for calculating how much power it takes to drive a specific compressor based on pressure differential, flowrate, compressor efficiency, and mechanical efficiency. So here are some conservative numbers similar to how a supercharger would run just for example. At: 11 psig
250 cfm
60% compressor efficiency
80% mechanical efficiency This supercharger will require just over 20 horsepower to spin and produce those boost and flowrate numbers. A 20 hp electric motor is not small by any means, which is why you don’t see any of these things being successful yet. The tiny electric motors that they are using to drive them just cannot produce the needed pressure and flow to even make them worth it. The pressure differential and flowrate variables dominate, so you can see how moving a large volume at high boost can really start to require some power.
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