Sulzer Management Ag

Marco Carvalho

Thomas Welschinger

Karel De Raeve

A multiphase pump for conveying a multiphase process fluid includes a pump housing, a rotor and a radial bearing. The rotor is arranged in the pump housing and is configured to rotate about an axial direction. The radial bearing has a support carrier and a support structure to support the rotor with respect to a radial direction. The rotor includes a pump shaft and an impeller fixedly mounted on the pump shaft to convey the process fluid from a pump inlet to a pump outlet. A squeeze film damper is provided to reduce vibrations of the rotor, the squeeze film damper arranged around the support structure of the radial bearing, and having an radially outer surface. A damping gap is arranged between the support structure of the radial bearing and the radially outer surface of the squeeze film damper. The damping gap is configured to receive a damping fluid.

Multiphase pump

A sealing arrangement for sealing a pressure chamber in a high pressure pump which is bound by a first and a second bounding element, includes a separate sealing element which has a first sealing surface for co-operating with the first bounding element, as well as having a second sealing surface for cooperating with the second bounding element. The two sealing surfaces are inclined with respect to one another and each have a groove for receiving a sealing ring. The sealing element is arranged in such a way that it can be displaced totally along one of the bounding elements on the application of pressure.

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Kyburg, Switzerland

Marco Carvalho