Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hidetsugu Ishimaru

Ryota Takeuchi

Daisuke Kariya

Naoto Sakai

Yuichi Saito

Toshimitsu Adachi

Seiji Yamashita

Yoshinobu Mori

Toshihiro Komiya

A damper includes: cylindrical damper body, damper body including inner ring and outer ring located concentrically, arc springs located side by side in circumferential direction between inner and outer rings, and slits that separate inner ring, outer ring, and arc springs; sealers on both sides of damper body in axial direction, sealers including sealing surfaces, sealing surfaces facing open ends of slits in axial direction, with gaps between sealing surfaces and open ends of slits; and viscous fluid that fills slits and gaps. Arc springs include first arc spring and second arc spring located side by side in circumferential direction. Each slit includes: inner slit portion that separates first arc spring and inner ring; outer slit portion that separates second arc spring and outer ring; connecting portion that connects inner slit and outer slit portions. Connecting portion includes restrictor that restricts viscous fluid movement between inner and outer slit portions.

Damper

A damper bearing includes: a bearing portion that supports a rotary shaft; and a tubular portion that is located around an outer circumference of the bearing portion, and has an outer surface attachable to a structural member. The bearing portion can be a hydrostatic bearing that supports the rotary shaft with a predetermined bearing clearance therebetween. The tubular portion includes a plurality of planar slits arranged circumferentially at predetermined intervals in the tubular portion. Each slit extends radially from an open end at the outer surface, and extends circumferentially in an arc to a predetermined point in a region between the outer and inner surfaces. The tubular portion includes a bearing fluid supply hole that is formed in a region where none of the planar slits is situated, and extends from the outer surface of the tubular portion to the bearing portion without passing through any of the planar slits.

Damper bearing and damper

The amount of consumption of gas is reduced when the gas is expanded to be cooled by using a plurality of expansion turbines. A high-pressure expansion turbine includes: a gas supply passage through which bearing gas is supplied to a bearing portion; and a gas discharge passage through which the bearing gas which has been supplied from the gas supply passage to the bearing portion is discharged from the bearing portion. A low-pressure expansion turbine includes: a gas supply passage through which the bearing gas is supplied to a bearing portion; and a gas discharge passage through which the bearing gas which has been supplied from the gas supply passage to the bearing portion is discharged from the bearing portion. The bearing gas discharged from the gas discharge passage of the high-pressure expansion turbine is supplied to the gas supply passage of the low-pressure expansion turbine.

Gas expansion system

An expansion turbine configured such that even when pressure of process gas steeply changes, the amount of process gas leaking from a gap between an impeller and a cover is made small. The expansion turbine includes a gas supply passage which is connected to any one of a gas supply passage and a gas discharge passage and through which gas is supplied to a region located between a rotor member and a casing member.

Expansion turbine

A liquefier system includes: a feed line configured to feed a raw material gas from a raw material supply source such that a pressure of the raw material gas in a predetermined portion of the feed line is kept higher than or equal to a predetermined pressure; a cooling medium circulation line configured to cause a cooling medium to circulate; a static pressure gas bearing configured to be supplied with the gas that has a pressure higher than or equal to the predetermined pressure and to rotatably support a rotating shaft of an expansion turbine; and a bearing supply line configured to connect the predetermined portion of the feed line and a gas inlet of the static pressure gas bearing, such that the gas is supplied to the static pressure gas bearing.

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Kobe, Japan

Hidetsugu Ishimaru