Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Kobelco Compressors Corporation

Koji Hagihara

Kazuya Hirata

Yasuto Kataoka

Yusuke Tomioka

A gas cooler effectively prevents or suppresses an outflow of drain water to the outside. The gas cooler includes a casing, a cooling unit, a seal plate, a lead-in port, a lead-out port, and a drain scattering prevention member. The cooling unit is accommodated within the casing and cools gas. The seal plate is provided in the cooling unit and partitions an inside of the casing into an upper space thorough which the gas before passing through the cooling unit flows and a bottom space through which the gas after passing through the cooling unit flows. The gas is led from the lead-in port into the upper space, and the gas is led out of the bottom space via the lead-out port. The drain scattering prevention member is disposed in the bottom space, and collects the drain water, while allowing the gas to pass therethrough.

Gas cooler

A screw compressor includes: a screw compressor main body; a motor for driving the screw compressor main body; a gearbox interposed between the screw compressor main body and the motor to transmit a driving force of the motor to the screw compressor main body; and a gas cooler positioned below either the screw compressor main body or the motor and attached as a separate body to a side surface of the gearbox.

Screw compressor

A pressure vessel, comprising: a vessel body having a rectangular parallelepiped shape for containing high pressure gas; a dividing wall in the form of a plate and disposed in the vessel body; and a plurality of ribs disposed on an outer surface of the vessel body. The vessel body includes: a top wall having a rectangular shape; a bottom wall having a rectangular shape and facing the top wall; and a surrounding wall joining a peripheral edge of the top wall and a peripheral edge of the bottom wall. The dividing wall is disposed in the vessel body to define a first chamber having a rectangular parallelepiped shape and a second chamber having a rectangular parallelepiped shape in cooperation with the vessel body. Each of the plurality of ribs extends over an entire circumference of the vessel body and along a plane perpendicularly intersecting the dividing wall.

Pressure vessel

A gas cooler includes a pair of seal plates and a pair of first support ribs. The individual seal plate has a stepped surface which extends in a direction that a cooling portion is inserted into a casing. The individual first support rib supports the stepped surface. With the configuration where the stepped surface is supported by the first support rib, the inside of the casing is partitioned into an upstream-side space communicated with an introducing port and a downstream-side space communicated with a discharging port.

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Hyogo, Japan

Koji Hagihara