Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.

Masahiko Takano

Kenji Morita

Shigeyuki Yorikane

Kentaro Yamamoto

Kotaro Chiba

Hideharu Tanaka

Yoshitaka Takeuchi

Takeshi Tsuchiya

Toshikazu Harashima

Kosuke Sadakata

Hitoshi Nishimura

Masakazu Hase

Akihiro Nagasaka

Yuji Kamiya

Minako Kanada

Masakazu Aoki

Takashi Nakajima

Hiroyuki Matsuda

Hirotaka Kameya

Masanao Kotani

Yuta Kajie

Akira Iyozumi

Ryoji Kawai

Masaaki Toda

Yoshihiko Sagawa

Tomotake Sakaguchi

Makoto Yuki

A simpler notification is given about identifying causes of abnormalities and indicating dealing methods or countermeasures to deal with the causes of abnormalities. In a gas compressor including: a compressor body that compresses a gas; a drive source that drives the compressor body; at least one physical sensor that is disposed on at least one of a compressed-gas pipe or an electric system and detects a physical quantity in driving of the compressor body; a display unit; and a controller that processes the detected result from the physical sensor and causes the display unit to display information according to the processing, the controller stores in advance the associated relation between a preset range with respect to a rate of change of the physical quantity and information about at least one of a cause of a change in the physical quantity and a dealing method of dealing the cause, calculates a rate of change of the physical quantity on the basis of the detected result from the physical sensor, and causes the display unit to display information about at least one of the cause corresponding to the preset range and the dealing method of dealing with the cause when the calculated rate of change of the physical quantity is determined as falling in the preset range.

Gas compressor

Provided is a liquid supply mechanism including: a plurality of liquid supply sections each including a plurality of branch paths whose central axes intersect with each other, and a supply path having a side surface to which the plurality of branch paths of the plurality of liquid supply sections are directly connected, respectively, and supplying liquid, which is supplied from an upstream, to the branch paths.

Screw compressor having a plurality of branch paths with intersects and central axes

A casing of a screw compressor has a delivery inner wall face facing delivery end faces of a male rotor and a female rotor. The delivery inner wall face of the casing has a shield area that shields at least a part of a track of an axial fluid communication path, which is a clearance that periodically occurs at the delivery end faces according to variation of intermeshing of the male and female rotors upon rotation thereof and is bounded by trailing flanks of the male and female rotors. The shield area of the casing is provided with a groove group made up of a plurality of grooves having longitudinal directions. The grooves of the groove group are juxtaposed in the circumferential direction of at least one rotor of the male and female rotors and are arranged such that their sides extending in the longitudinal directions are disposed adjacent to each other. Each groove of the groove group is configured such that its longitudinal direction oriented from the inner circumferential side of the one rotor toward the outer circumferential side is inclined with respect to the radial direction of the one rotor in the same direction as the rotational direction of the one rotor.

Screw compressor

A liquid-supply-type screw compressor can suppress a rise in temperature of a liquid while reducing work for stirring the liquid. The compressor has male and female rotors, male- and female-rotor-side working chambers formed at grooves of the male and female rotors, respectively. The compressor also has a liquid supply nozzle arranged on one side in the rotor axial direction which is a low-pressure side of an intersection at which a high-pressure-side cusp intersects a ridge line of a trailing lobe tip of the female rotor that defines a female-rotor-side working chamber, the nozzle supplying liquid to the male-rotor-side working chamber; and a liquid-supply nozzle arranged on the other side in the rotor axial direction which is a high-pressure side of the intersection, and supplies the liquid to the male-rotor-side working chamber, and the liquid supply amount of the nozzle is made greater than the amount of the other liquid-supply nozzle.

Liquid supply type screw compressor

A gas compressor includes a compressor main body, an electric motor that supplies driving force to the compressor main body, a power conversion device, a plurality of air release valves disposed in a plurality of air release systems communicating with a discharge piping system to discharge the compressed gas to an atmospheric pressure environment, and a controller. The gas compressor performing an unload operation of reducing, when a discharge pressure reaches a predetermined pressure, a load on the compressor main body by opening one of the air release valves. The gas compressor including the plurality air release systems for each of which the air release value is disposed, and a plurality of pressure regulating valves provided on a downstream side of each air release valve, respectively, wherein the controller selects one of the air release valves and performs the unload operation.

Gas compressor with a plurality of air realease systems each having an air release valve and an air regulating valve

A position information antennareceives a position signal including position information about a sending source (satellite, base station, or the like) of a positioning radio wave. A communication antennatransmits position information about a compressor(air compressor) that compresses the air and receives meteorological information corresponding to the position of the compressorfrom a server on a cloud. A controllerspecifies the position of the compressorfrom the position signal received by the position information antennaand controls the compressoron the basis of the meteorological information corresponding to the position of the compressorreceived by the communication antenna

Air compressor

A compressor body includes a compression mechanism including a screw rotor that compresses gas, a casing that accommodates the compression mechanism and defines a compression working chambers therein, a suction side bearing that rotatably supports the screw rotor, a bearing chamber that accommodates the suction side bearing, and a liquid supply port that communicates with the compression working chambers and supplies liquid supplied from the outside of the casing into the compression working chambers. The casing has an internal liquid supply flow path that extends from a discharge side of the compression working chambers as an upstream side to a suction side of the compression working chambers as a downstream side and that supplies the liquid to the liquid supply port. The internal liquid supply flow path has a downstream portion reaching the bearing chamber and supplies the liquid to the suction side bearing.

Compressor body and compressor to supply liquid into working chambers and whose downstream portion reaches a suction bearing chamber

A delivery port of a rotary-screw compressor includes a first opening having a profile configured to interrupt communication with a second working chamber of a suction process that opens only in the axial direction; a second opening connected to the first opening; and a third opening connected to the first and second openings. The profile of the first opening includes a first profile line that forms one of a pair of lateral edges of a lingulate protrusion; a second profile line that forms another one of the pair of the lateral edges of the protrusion; a third profile line that extends toward the reference point along the root circle of the female rotor; and a second connection line that connects the first and second profile lines. The second opening opens into the first opening at the second connection line. The third opening opens into the first groove.

Liquid-feeding rotary-screw compressor

A waste-heat recovery system includes a waste-heat-recovery heat a tank, a circulation circuit, a circulation pump, and a control device that is configured to obtain the temperature of the heat medium flowing through a heat medium outlet piping of the circulation circuit and the temperature of the water stored in the tank. The control device stops the circulation pump or reduces the rotational frequency thereof in a case where the temperature of the heat medium flowing through the heat medium outlet piping is lower, or lower by a predetermined temperature or more, than the temperature of the water.

Waste-heat recovery system in oil-cooled gas compressor

The liquid level of a liquid supply compressor including a gas-liquid separator is dynamically monitored. A liquid supply gas compressor includes a compressor body; a gas-liquid separator separates liquid from compressed gas, to store the liquid; a liquid piping system supplies liquid stored to the compressor body; an internal pipe extends in an internal space of the gas-liquid separator, and includes at least two hole portions, with different disposition positions in a height direction, on an internal side to communicate with the piping system; and a sensor detecting pressure or temperature of fluid flowing through the piping system.

Liquid level height detection in a gas-liquid separator of a liquid supply type gas compressor

A screw compressor includes plural screw rotors, plural suction-side bearings that each rotatably support the suction side of the plural screw rotors and plural discharge-side bearings that each rotatably support the discharge side of the plural screw rotors, and a casing that houses the plural screw rotors, the plural suction-side bearings, and the plural discharge-side bearings. Each screw rotor includes a lobe section with plural lobes and a suction-side shaft section and a discharge-side shaft section each disposed at both ends of the lobe section. The casing has a housing chamber that houses the lobe sections of the plural screw rotors and a lubrication path in which liquid that lubricates the plural suction-side bearings circulates. In the lubrication path, respective passages to lubricate each of the plural suction-side bearings are connected in series and a most downstream part is connected to the housing chamber.

Screw compressor having a lubrication path for a plurality of suction side bearings

A package-type compressor includes a body unit, a controller, a casing, a first cooling air inlet, a second cooling air inlet, a cooling air outlet, a fan duct, a cooling fan, an air cooling type heat exchanger, a machine chamber, and a cooling duct. The cooling duct is provided below the fan duct, the cooling duct causing the cooling air taken in at the second cooling air inlet to flow along the controller toward the suction port of the fan duct. A vertical projection plane of the cooling fan overlaps the machine chamber and the cooling duct.

Package-type compressor

A technique is provided that can further reduce power at the time of 'unload operation control' in a gas compressor that generates a compressed gas at a set pressure by constant-speed control. The gas compressor includes a compressor main unit, a drive source, an intake throttle valve, a gas release valve, rotation speed converting means, a pressure detecting device that detects a discharge pressure, and a controller that, the relationship between an upper-limit pressure H and a lower-limit pressure L being H&#x3e;L, carries out opening the intake throttle valve and closing the gas release valve and operating the drive source at a full-load rotation speed until the discharge pressure reaches the upper-limit pressure H. The controller carries out at least one of closing the intake throttle valve and opening the gas release valve to reduce the discharge pressure to within a predetermined range when the discharge pressure reaches the upper-limit pressure H. The controller carries out switching to load operation when the discharge pressure drops to the lower-limit pressure L. In the gas compressor, the controller outputs a command of a lower rotation speed than the full-load rotation speed to the rotation speed converting means when the discharge pressure rises and reaches the upper-limit pressure H. The controller outputs a command of the full-load rotation speed to the rotation speed converting means when the discharge pressure drops and reaches the lower-limit pressure L.

A screw compressor includes a screw rotor, a casing, and a delivery side shaft sealing unit. The delivery side shaft sealing unit includes an annular groove, a seal ring, and a shaft sealing fluid supply passage. Pressure of the fluid that is supplied to the one side, in the axial direction, of the seal ring via the shaft sealing fluid supply passage is set higher than pressure that acts on a first side surface, in an axial direction with respect to a first side wall surface of the annular groove, of the seal ring.

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Masahiko Takano