Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Hiroshi Kuzumi

Yasuhiro Ikeda

Hitoshi Ito

Takanobu Otani

Toshihiko Matsuo

Yasushi Takayama

Tomoki Hanada

Hidekazu Uehara

Masaru Sakai

Yuji Harada

Akihiko Umeda

Kentarou Saeki

Hiroyuki Tokumasu

Hiroomi Sakuma

A multistage shaft sealing apparatus includes a first sealing unit, a second sealing unit, and a third sealing unit provided, in a sequential order from a side of the apparatus closer to inside of the apparatus, in a fluid leakage passage formed between the rotating shaft or the rotating member and a housing located to surround the rotating shaft or the rotating member. The first sealing unit includes a first runner and a first sealing ring which form a non-contact-type sealing surface; the second sealing unit includes a second runner and a second sealing ring which form a contact-type sealing surface; the third sealing unit includes a third runner and a third sealing ring which form a contact-type sealing surface, and a purge water supply passage supplying purge water to the third sealing unit and a purge water discharge passage discharging the purge water supplied to the third sealing unit.

Multistage shaft sealing apparatus and rotary machine

The shaft sealing structure includes a seal ring that has abutment portions formed by dividing the seal ring along the axial direction and that is provided around a main shaft in a ring-like manner; a support member that is provided in the seal ring along the circumferential direction of the main shaft; and a thermoswitch that is connected to the support member between the abutment portions and that presses the support member toward the center of the main shaft when the temperature rises to a temperature higher than that during normal operation, in which the seal ring is fixed at a position separated from the main shaft during the normal operation and is moved by the support member toward the center of the main shaft when the temperature rises to a temperature higher than that during the normal operation.

Shaft sealing structure and reactor coolant pump

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Kuzumi