Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho

Hitoshi Kato

Toshihiko Nishiyama

Hiromasa Yamaguchi

Kunio Horiai

Kinichiro Watanabe

Tomoyuki Mashiko

A turbo-compound compressor system includes a booster compressor connected to the output shaft of a power recovery turbine which is disposed downstream of the outlet of an expansion turbine in a turbocharger for an internal combustion engine and drivable by the exhaust gas of the engine, and a rotary positive-displacement air compressor drivable by the engine also into which the air delivered by the booster compressor is supplied through an air supply conduit having a throttle valve. The turbo-compound compressor system further includes a bypass line provided therein with a closing valve and adapted to prevent surging caused in the booster compressor.

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Oyama, Japan

Hitoshi Kato