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US 8,985,945 B2Granted
Radial gas expander
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation
InventorsHideki Nagao, Yasushi Mori, Masahiro Kobayashi, Katsuya Yamashita, Hirotaka Higashimori, Katsuki Yagi
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Abstract
Provided is a uni-axial multi-stage radial gas expander which has a high degree of reliability and which can sufficiently cope with the conditions of a high pressure and a high pressure ratio. Two or more radial gas expander sections (11A, 11B) formed of two-or-more-stage impeller vanes (14a to 14h) arranged between bearings (21a, 21b) on a rotor shaft (13) consisting of a single shaft are housed in a signal casing (10).
Claims2
A radial gas expander, comprising:
- two or more radial gas expander sections housed in a single casing, wherein
- the radial gas expander sections include impeller vanes arranged in two or more stages between bearings on a single shaft, and
- each of the radial gas expander sections has a gas inlet communicating with a suction port of the single casing, and a gas outlet communicating with a delivery port of the single casing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.