Thermodyn

Ge Oil & Gas UK Limited

Thermodyne Sas

Termodinamica Sas

Pierre Laboube

Thomas Alban

Massimo Camatti

Patrick Friez

Jean-Marc Pugnet

David Allen Kennedy

Patrice Bonnefoi

Philippe Augy

Shukui Zhao

Ravikumar Vipperla

Roberto Esposito

A motor compressor unit including a common housing sealed with respect to a gas to be compressed, a motor mounted to the common housing, and a compressor mounted to the common housing. The motor is mounted in an inner casing fastened in the common housing by at least one removable fastening device such that the motor and the inner casing form a removable cartridge.

Motor compressor unit with removable cartridge

A cooling system is provided for cooling a motor that drives a compressor in a liquefaction system. The coolant used for cooling the motor includes portions of a discharge from a compressor. The coolant for the motor is generated from a vapor component of the discharge from the compressor. The discharge from the compressor is cooled and the vapor component is separated from a liquid component and treated prior to being introduced into the motor. Remaining portions of the discharge from the compressor are routed to cold boxes producing a compressed refrigerant.

Refrigerant compressing process with cooled motor

A centrifugal compressor unit includes a driving means for rotatably driving a rotor, and at least one compressor including a statoric body and an arrangement of blade wheels mounted on a shaft which is rotatably driven by the rotor in the statoric body. The group formed by the motor and/or each compressor being mounted in a common housing is sealed from the gas used by the compressor. The compressor unit also includes an arrangement of active bearings for axially and radially guiding the rotor and the driven shaft, and a means for cooling the driving means and the guiding bearings by withdrawing the gas used by the compressor at the outlet of a first compression stage. The cooling means includes a set of internal conduits for supplying the driving means and the bearings with cooling gas. The cooling gas flow in the motor and the cooling gas flow in the bearing is separated and then converge upstream of the first compression stage.

Centrifugal motor-compressor unit

One aspect of the invention provides a centrifugal compressor unit () comprising a first motor (), at least one compressor () comprising a drive shaft () driven by the rotor () of the first motor () and a set of impellers () mounted on the drive shaft (). The first motor () and the compressor () are mounted in a gas-tight common housing () operated by the compressor unit (). The rotor () of the first motor () and the drive shaft () are connected by a flexible coupling () placed in the housing (). The compressor unit includes a second motor () that is placed in the housing and of which the rotor () is connected to the drive shaft () by a second flexible coupling ().

Centrifugal compressor unit

This compressor unit comprises a motor () and at least one compressor () comprising a driven shaft () driven by the rotor of the motor and bladed wheels fitted on the driven shaft (), the assembly composed of the motor and the compressor being installed in a common casing () leak tight to the gas manipulated by the compressor unit. The rotor and the driven shaft are connected through a flexible coupling () placed in the casing.

Centrifugal compressor having a flexible coupling

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Pierre Laboube