Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Bjorn Verrelst

Hans Meeus

Guido Jan Bal

Nils Vercauteren

Wim Meeusen

Stijn Pittois

Philippe Ernens

Jarl Beckers

Karolien Kempen

Guy De Greef

Mart Lybeert

Stefano Vagnoli

Axel Van De Walle

Smail El Bejjati

Koen Peeters

Koen Lea F Peeters

Florian Fettweis

Wouter Ceulemans

Multistage centrifugal compressor provided with a shaft with blades, which is mounted in a housing with bearings. At least one bearing is provided with a bearing damper element including a ring arranged between the shaft and the bearing. The ring includes slots through the thickness of the ring in the axial direction (X-X') and at a distance from the radially-directed inner and outer surface of the ring. The slots are at least partially overlapping, and:

Multistage centrifugal compressor

A piston compressor containing a housing with a compression chamber in it, having an inlet and an outlet and a piston arranged movably back and forth in an axial direction in the compression chamber between an upper dead point and a lower dead point, delimited by a kinematic mechanism with which the piston is connected. The drive is formed exclusively by an electromagnetic linear drive of the piston.

Piston compressor

A turbomachine includes a shaft with a first end and an impeller arranged at and coupled to the first end of the shaft, arranged together to rotate about an axis of rotation. The turbomachine further includes a friction ring clamped between an axial surface at the first end of the shaft and an opposite axial surface of the impeller.

Turbomachine with a shaft coupled to an impeller with an axially interposed friction ring

Compressor device provided with at least one compressor element and a drive for the compressor element, wherein all bearings of at least one shaft in the compressor device configured to carry static axial load, are provided with a bearing damper which comprises a coupling element and at least one damping element made of damping elastomer material. The bearing damper is installed with the aid of the coupling element between a bearing of the compressor device and the housing of the compressor device. The coupling element allows little or no movement of the bearing relative to the housing the radial direction compared to the axial direction. The damping element is configured to dampen the axial movement of the bearing relative to the housing.

Compressor device and device equipped with a bearing damper

A screw compressor includes a first rotor and a second rotor, and each rotor is provided with a synchronisation gear. The screw compressor is further provided with an electric motor and one or two driving gears for driving the first rotor or second rotor. At least one of the synchronisation gears or driving gears is provided with spokes between a rim supporting a gear mesh and a corresponding gear hub.

Screw compressor including spoked gear

Positive displacement machine such as a compressor, expander, pump or the like, for displacing a gaseous or liquid medium, the machine containing an element with at least one inlet and at least one outlet for the medium and at least two cooperating driven moving parts. The mutual periodic movement of the moving parts displaces the medium from the inlet to the outlet. Each of the at least two driven cooperating moving parts is provided with its own individual drive. The element is provided with a kinematic synchronisation coupling between the at least two cooperating moving parts for the mutual kinematic synchronisation of their movements.

Positive displacement machine with kinematic synchronization coupling and with driven moving parts having their own individual drives

A device includes a bearing-in-bearing with an inner ring, an intermediate ring and an outer ring. Between the inner ring and the intermediate ring and between the intermediate ring and the outer ring, inner roller elements, and outer roller elements, are attached, respectively. The bearing-in-bearing is attached between two components that can rotate in relation to each other, a shaft and a housing, of which one component is or can be connected to a drive. A transmission is provided between the intermediate ring and the driven component in order to drive the intermediate ring. The transmission is a contactless transmission.

Device provided with a bearing-in-bearing

A bearing damper element includes a ring mounted between a rotating object and a supporting object which supports the ring. The ring includes at least three slits through the thickness of the ring in the axial direction and at a distance of the radial inner and outer surface of the ring. At least half of the slits have one or more damping parts with a maximum width of 0.5 millimeters, whereby the damping parts are concentric and do not overlap.

Bearing damper element, bearing and compressor element provided with such a bearing damper element and method for manufacturing such a bearing damper element

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Bjorn Verrelst