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US 12,680,545 B2Granted
Screw compressor
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsHironobu Kawamura, Sachio Sekiya, Hiroshi Maita, Haruki Nukaga, Kento Hashimoto
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Abstract
A screw compressor includes a first seal, a second seal, and a third seal which are non-contact seals from a rotor side to a bearing side of a shaft seal portion, a compressed gas supply device which is different from a rotor that supplies compressed gas between the first seal and the second seal, and a heating device that heats the compressed gas supplied between the first seal and the second seal from the compressed gas supply device.
Claims4
A screw compressor comprising:
- a casing;
- a rotor that is disposed in the casing, compresses low-pressure water vapor sucked from one end side of the casing into high-pressure water vapor, and emits the high-pressure water vapor to the other end side of the casing;
- a rotation shaft of the rotor supported by a bearing;
- a shaft seal portion of the rotation shaft formed between the rotor and the bearing;
- and
- a plurality of seals arranged at predetermined intervals at the shaft seal portion of the rotation shaft on a discharge side along an axial direction of the rotation shaft, wherein
- the plurality of seals includes:
- a seal that increases flow resistance of a fluid passing between the seal and the rotation shaft and is not in contact with the rotation shaft;
- and
- at least a first seal, a second seal, and a third seal from a rotor side toward a bearing side of the shaft seal portion, and
- a compressed gas supply device that supplies compressed gas between the first seal and the second seal and is different from the rotor, and a heating device that heats the compressed gas supplied between the first seal and the second seal from the compressed gas supply device are provided.
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