Compressor
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation
InventorFugaku Takahashi
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Abstract
A compressor includes: a rotor including a rotor shaft rotatable around an axis and a compression unit that rotates integrally with the rotor shaft and compresses fluid; a casing for covering the rotor from an outer side in a radial direction with the axis as a center; a sealing mechanism for sealing an annular space formed between the rotor shaft and the casing with a sealing gas; a sealing gas supply line for supplying the sealing gas to the annular space; and a gas lead-out line for leading the sealing gas in the annular space to a suction port of the compression unit.
Claims9
A compressor, comprising:
- a rotor including a rotor shaft rotatable around an axis and a compression unit that rotates integrally with the rotor shaft and compresses fluid;
- a casing for covering the rotor from an outer side in a radial direction with the axis as a center;
- a sealing mechanism for sealing an annular space formed between the rotor shaft and the casing with a sealing gas;
- a sealing gas supply line for supplying the sealing gas to the annular space;
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- a gas lead-out line for leading the sealing gas in the annular space to a suction port of the compression unit, wherein
- the sealing mechanism includes
- a first sealing portion,
- a second sealing portion disposed at an interval from the first sealing portion in an axial direction so as to be separated from the compression unit, and
- a third sealing portion disposed at an interval from the second sealing portion on a side opposite to the first sealing portion in the axial direction,
- the second sealing portion has a sealing property stronger than that of either the first sealing portion or the third sealing portion, and includes a carbon ring seal disposed on the outer side in the radial direction with respect to the rotor shaft and extending in a circumferential direction around the axis,
- the second sealing portion divides the annular space into a high-pressure space close to the first sealing portion in the axial direction with respect to the second sealing portion and a low-pressure space close to the third sealing portion in the axial direction with respect to the second sealing portion and having a pressure lower than that of the high-pressure space between the first sealing portion and the third sealing portion, and
- the gas lead-out line connects the high-pressure space and a suction port of the compression unit having a pressure lower than that of the low-pressure space to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.