Internally-cooled centrifugal compressor with cooling jacket formed in the diaphragm

Moore, James J.; Lerche, Andrew H.; Moreland, Brian S.

Title: Internally-cooled centrifugal compressor with cooling jacket formed in the diaphragm

Abstract

An internally-cooled centrifugal compressor having a shaped casing and a diaphragm disposed within the shaped casing having a gas side and a coolant side so that heat from a gas flowing though the gas side is extracted via the coolant side. An impeller disposed within the diaphragm has a stage inlet on one side and a stage outlet for delivering a pressurized gas to a downstream connection. The coolant side of the diaphragm includes at least one passageway for directing a coolant in a substantially counter-flow direction from the flow of gas through the gas side.

Inventors:: Moore, James J.; Lerche, Andrew H.; Moreland, Brian S.

Issue Date:: 2014-08-26

Research Org.:: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1151788

Patent Number(s):: 8814509

Application Number:: 12/930,751

Assignee:: Dresser-Rand Company (Olean, NY)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F04 - POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS F04D - NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS

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F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F04 - POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS F04D - NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
F04D17/122 - {the individual rotor discs being, one for each stage, on a common shaft and axially spaced, e.g. conventional centrifugal multi- stage compressors}
F04D29/444 - {Bladed diffusers}
F04D29/58 - Cooling
F04D29/5826 - {Cooling at least part of the working fluid in a heat exchanger}
F04D29/584 - {cooling or heating the machine

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DOE Contract Number:: FC26-05NT42650

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING

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  abstractNote = {An internally-cooled centrifugal compressor having a shaped casing and a diaphragm disposed within the shaped casing having a gas side and a coolant side so that heat from a gas flowing though the gas side is extracted via the coolant side. An impeller disposed within the diaphragm has a stage inlet on one side and a stage outlet for delivering a pressurized gas to a downstream connection. The coolant side of the diaphragm includes at least one passageway for directing a coolant in a substantially counter-flow direction from the flow of gas through the gas side.},

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