Circor Pumps North America, LLC.

Allweiler Ag

Allweiler Gmbh

Imo Industries Inc.

Stefan Werner

Dan Yin

Christian Martin

David McKinstry

Martin Hoffmann

Christian Hopf

Michael Jackle

Soeren Lemcke

Helmut Engelmann

Martin Hoffman

Edwin Braun

Yongchun Ma

Alistair Baird

Jurgen Broders

Michael JÄCKLE

A sea water cooling system including a first fluid cooling loop coupled to a first side of a heat exchanger and to a thermal load, a second fluid cooling loop coupled to a second side of the heat exchanger and including a pump for circulating fluid through the second fluid cooling loop, and a controller operatively connected to the pump, wherein the controller is configured to monitor an actual temperature in the first fluid cooling loop and to adjust a speed of the pump based on the monitored temperature to achieve a predetermined temperature in the first fluid cooling loop. The system may be selectively operable in one of a plurality of operating modes, wherein in a first operating mode the pump operates based entirely on cooling demands of the thermal load, and in a second operating mode the pump operates to maintain a fluid pressure above a predefined pressure.

Intelligent sea water cooling system

A modular rotor assembly for a screw pump including a power rotor and an idler rotor having respective first ends adapted to be disposed in a suction side of the screw pump and respective second ends adapted to be disposed in a discharge side of the screw pump, the power rotor including a balance piston adapted to be disposed within a pump housing of the screw pump with a radial clearance between an entire circumference of the balance piston and the pump housing is in a range between 1 micron and 200 microns, wherein the power rotor is provided with a tapered bearing surface configured to define a wedge-shaped, radial gap axially intermediate the power rotor and the idler rotor.

Modular thrust-compensating rotor assembly

An intelligent sea water cooling system including a first fluid cooling loop coupled to a first side of a heat exchanger and to a thermal load, a second fluid cooling loop coupled to a second side of the heat exchanger, a pump for circulating fluid through the second fluid cooling loop, and a controller connected to the pump. The controller may monitor a temperature in the first fluid cooling loop and may adjust a speed of the pump to keep the temperature within a preferred operating range. If the speed of the pump is reduced to a predefined minimum pressure pump speed, the controller may start a timer thaving a predefined duration. If the timer texpires and the temperature has not increased relative to when the timer twas started, the controller may reduce the speed of the pump below the minimum pressure pump speed.

Intelligent sea water cooling system and method

A seawater cooling system adapted to mitigate salt crystallization in a seawater cooling loop. The system may include a pump operatively connected to the cooling loop and configured to pump seawater through the cooling loop, a temperature sensor operatively connected to the cooling loop and configured to monitor a temperature of the seawater in the cooling loop, and a controller operatively connected to the temperature sensor and to the pump, the controller configured to issue a warning and to increase a speed of the pump if it is determined that the monitored temperature of the seawater exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature.

Intelligent seawater cooling system

A sea water cooling system including a first fluid cooling loop coupled to a first side of a heat exchanger and to a thermal load, a second fluid cooling loop coupled to a second side of the heat exchanger and including a pump for circulating fluid through the second fluid cooling loop, and a controller operatively connected to the pump, wherein the controller is configured to monitor an actual temperature in the first fluid cooling loop and to adjust a speed of the pump based on the monitored temperature to achieve a predetermined temperature in the first fluid cooling loop. The system may be selectively operable in one of a plurality of operating modes accordance, wherein in a first operating mode the pump is operated based entirely on cooling demands of the thermal load, and in a second operating mode the pump is operated to maintain a fluid pressure above a predefined pressure.

An intelligent sea water cooling system including a first fluid cooling loop coupled to a heat exchanger, a second fluid cooling loop coupled to the heat exchanger and including a fluid pump for circulating fluid through the second fluid cooling loop, and a controller operatively connected to the fluid pump. The controller may be configured to monitor an actual temperature in the first fluid cooling loop and to adjust a speed of the fluid pump based on the monitored temperature in order to achieve a desired temperature in the first fluid cooling loop.

An operational control device is disclosed for a positive-displacement pump having a motor, means for actuating the motor, state sensor means for detecting an actual operating parameter (e.g., pressure) of the pump, and operating mode means for controlling an operating mode of the pump. A first actuating mode of the operating mode means is set by the actuating means below a first operating-parameter threshold value (P). This mode brings about a constantly rising pump pressure in the direction of an operating-parameter setpoint value (Pset) in a variable manner, which is dependent on a detected change in the operating parameter over a predefined time interval. A second actuating mode is set as normal operation to the operating-parameter setpoint value by the actuating means above the first operating-parameter threshold value. Pis fixed or is calculated as a fraction of the operating-parameter setpoint value and/or a pump parameter correlated therewith.

Operation control device for limiting the amount a positive displacement pump over or undershoots a target operating parameter value, pump system and method for operating such

Operation control device for limiting the amount a positive displacement pump over-or undershoots a target operating parameter value, pump system and method for operating such

A device which is used to guide at least two flow media having different pressures with a shaft or similar force-transmitting element, and a pressure insulating element such as a housing surrounding the shaft or similar. Areas arranged next to each other in the direction of the axis are determined between the force-transmitting element and the pressure-insulating element by sealing elements; at least one of the preferably magnetofluidic sealing elements is leakage-free, and two areas for fluids (A, B) having different pressures flank an area for an auxiliary liquid (H), whereby said area is subdivided by a device into two partial areas for two different pressure areas. A conveying medium is allocated to the area at high pressure and ambient air is allocated to the area at low pressure. The auxiliary liquid (H) is a carrier oil of the magnetofluid, optionally a silicon oil, allocated to the sealing element.

Device and method for guiding at least two flow media

The invention relates to a mounting for a turbo-machine rotor. Said mounting is characterized in that radial support of the rotor is assured by one or more permanent magnet bearings. One or more single-thrust sliding bearings provide axial support. The permanent magnet bearings also serve as a lifting device for the sliding surfaces of the hydrodynamic sliding bearings. A force, acting in the opposite direction from the axial force, is generated by axial displacement of the rotor-sided bearing elements of the permanent magnet bearing, in relation to the housing-sided bearing elements, counter to the direction of axial force. This force separates the sliding surfaces of the hydrodynamic sliding bearings from each other in the stopping phases of the rotor. Once it has come to a stop, and when it is in the starting and stopping phases, the rotor is guided by one or more sliding or rolling bearings. These are so configured that, at low rotational speed and when at a standstill, they have a substantially lower moment of friction than the hydrodynamic sliding bearings used in the mounting.

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Allensbach, Germany

Stefan Werner