Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie Srl

Nuovo Pignone Srl

Francesco Capanni

Emanuele Checcacci

Daniele Marcucci

Roberto Merlo

Stefano Rossin

Paolo Bianchi

Valentina Bisio

Domenico Zaffino

Jacopo Barsali

Massimo Carmignani

Ian Paul Kay

A mounting system for supporting rotating machinery is described. The system comprises a base frame having an upper side for mounting the rotating machinery, and a lower side. A set of main supporting members are arranged according to a triangular arrangement and forming a three-point mounting arrangement defining a mounting plane. Moreover, a set of auxiliary supporting members, having a variable stiffness in at least one direction, are provided and are configured and arranged such as to increase the stiffness thereof when the base frame is subject to an overload, thus reducing load on the main supporting members.

Multi-point mounting system for rotating machinery

A mounting system for supporting rotary machinery on a supporting structure of an off-shore installation, the system including a base frame provided with an upper side, for mounting the rotary machinery and a lower side, a set of at least four supporting members arranged at the lower side of the base frame and adapted to be placed on the supporting structure to act as an intermediate layer or frame between the base frame and the supporting structure in mounting condition. The supporting members include resilient elements generating a reaction force when subject to load and are configured to transfer to the base frame stresses and/or strains lower than allowable limits also in case of deformation of the supporting structures; the base frame has stiffness such as to guarantee design acceptance criteria for example for rotary machinery alignment, terminal points or interface point displacement, dynamic behavior or like parameters.

Mounting system for rotating machinery

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Florence, Italy

Francesco Capanni