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US 5,961,295 AGranted
Mixed flow liquid ring pumps
AssigneeThe Nash Engineering Company
InventorsHarold K. Haavik, Douglas Frederick Sweet
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AssigneeThe Nash Engineering Company
InventorsHarold K. Haavik, Douglas Frederick Sweet
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A conically ported liquid ring pump has one or more port structures with cone angles in the range from 15 degrees to 75 degrees. These cone angles are substantially greater than previously used cone angles (most commonly about 8 degrees). The large cone angles of this invention give the fluid flowing between the cone and the rotor significant components of both radial and axial velocity. Large cone angles also allow the port structure(s) to be made axially shorter, which has a number of important advantages such as shortening the unsupported length of the rotor shaft. These attributes of the present pumps are helpful for such purposes as allowing the length-to-diameter ratios of the pumps to be economically increased. In addition, the pumps of this invention retain many of the desirable attributes of conically ported pumps.
A liquid ring pump comprising a port structure which extends into a recess in an axial end of a rotor, the rotor having a plurality of axially extending blades which extend radially out from the recess and which are spaced from one another around the recess, the port structure immediately adjacent to the recess defining a frustoconical surface having a cone angle in the range from 15 degrees to 75 degrees, the surface defining fluid inlet and outlet apertures for selectively communicating fluid between the port structure and spaces between adjacent blades, and the rotor immediately adjacent to the apertures being free of any structure other than the blades for influencing flow direction of fluid communicated via the apertures.
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