Centrifugal pump assembly for use in nuclear reactor plants or the like

Patent · Tue Nov 11 04:00:00 EST 1975

OSTI ID:4097288

Honold, E; Ruepp, M

A description is given of a vertical centrifugal pump assembly for use as a primary recirculating pump in a nuclear reactor plant which has an uppermost shaft which is driven by a motor, a lowermost shaft which drives the impeller of the pump, and an intermediate shaft which is movable axially between the uppermost and lowermost shafts and carries a housing for radial and/or thrust bearings. A rigid coupling between the lowermost shaft and the intermediate shaft is disengaged when the intermediate shaft is lifted to thereby afford access to certain parts of the lowermost shaft. The uppermost shaft can drive the intermediate shaft through the medium of a flexible coupling having coupling elements mounted on the lower end of the uppermost shaft and the upper end of the intermediate shaft, and a distancing sleeve whose internal threads are in permanent mesh with external threads of the two coupling elements. A shroud which surrounds the flexible coupling has a maximum-diameter tubular section rigid with the housing for the bearings, a minimum-diameter tubular section rigid with but detachable from the casing of the motor, and a median tubular section which penetrates into the maximum-diameter section when the intermediate shaft is lifted. When the minimum-diameter section is detached from the casing of the motor, it can be slid, together with the intermediate section, into the maximum- diameter section to thereby afford access to the flexible coupling. The rigid coupling has two coaxial coupling elements which are mounted at the upper end of the pump shaft and the lower end of the intermediate shaft and may have teeth which mate when the intermediate shaft assumes its lower end position in which it can drive the pump. (Official Gazette)

• Research Organization: Originating Research Org. not identified
• NSA Number: NSA-33-019598
• Assignee: to Klein, Schanzlin-Becker Aktiengesellschaft
• Patent Number(s): US 3918272
• OSTI ID: 4097288
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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