Compressor train for chemical plant
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation
InventorsTomoaki Nogami, Dinesh Bhakar
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Abstract
A compressor train for a chemical plant includes a compression unit configured to compress a process gas of the chemical plant by being driven, a motor configured to drive the compression unit, a steam turbine rotated by steam generated in association with treatment of the process gas of the chemical plant and configured to assist in rotation of the motor, a steam introduction line through which the steam flows toward the steam turbine, and a main trip and throttle valve disposed on the steam introduction line and configured to regulate a flow rate of the steam to the steam turbine.
Claims4
A compressor train for a chemical plant, comprising:
- a compression unit comprising a rotation shaft rotatable about an axis as a center and configured to compress a process gas of the chemical plant;
- a motor comprising an output shaft rotatable about the axis as a center and configured to drive the compression unit and to adjust a rotation speed of the compression unit;
- a steam turbine comprising a turbine rotation shaft rotatable about the axis as a center, rotated by steam generated in association with treatment of the process gas of the chemical plant at a rotation speed equal to or lower than a rotation speed of the motor, and configured to assist rotation of the motor;
- a steam introduction line through which the steam flows toward the steam turbine;
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- a main trip and throttle valve disposed on the steam introduction line and configured to block or cause the steam to flow into the steam turbine, wherein
- the steam turbine is disposed between the motor and the compression unit in an axial direction in which the axis extends, and
- the rotation shaft, the turbine rotation shaft, and the output shaft are disposed on a same straight line such that the axis is shared as a center line of the rotation shaft, a center line of the turbine rotation shaft, and a center line of the output shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.