Hitachi Industries Co., Ltd.

Seiji Kawabata

Sadashi Tanaka

Yasuhiro Inoue

Takashi Aki

A prewhirl type inlet casing for inducing a spiral stream in fluid has a suction passage arranged on an upstream side, being orthogonal to a rotary shaft of fluid machinery, and an internal passage connected to the suction passage, the internal passage being formed in a spiral shape so as to induce a swirl stream orthogonal to the rotary shaft in the fluid. A guide vane provided in the fluid passage in the inlet casing has a rectifying function capable of distributing flow rates in the swirl stream of the fluid in the internal passage between the swirl center side and the swirl outer peripheral side, and causing the fluid to deflect into the swirling direction of the swirl stream induced by the internal passage.

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Tsuchiura, Japan

Seiji Kawabata