Carrier Corporation

Vishnu Mohan Sishtla

William T Cousins

Scott A Nieforth

Ulf J Jonsson

Thomas M Zinsmeyer

Michael M Joly

Kai Deng

Zaffir A Chaudhry

Chaitanya Vishwajit Halbe

Lei Yu

Zissis A Dardas

Joost J Brasz

Jun Cao

Cornelius Holmes

Kenneth A Wright

Sheng Chen

Zhanbo Du

Parmesh Verma

Ying She

Xia Tang

Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu

Susanne Marie Opalka

Frederick James Cogswell

Larry D Burns

Michael A Stark

Steven James Holden

Lee George Tetu

Daniel G Goberman

William P Patrick

Jianping Zhong

Yifan Qiu

Ye Tian

Jarso Mulugeta

Qunyi Ma

Xiaodan Cai

Biao Shu

Steven E Meloling

Fujin Feng

Huiliang Zhang

James R Barrett

Xili Liu

James Byrne

Danni Yuan

Edward G Gallagher

Frank H Godlewski

Yuchang Shac

Emir Alemic

Yuchang Shao

Yingqin Wu

Michael Westlake

Zhen Guo

Michael Bergin

Jing Chen

An illustrative example embodiment of a compressor assembly includes a compressor housing having a suction inlet and a discharge outlet. A flow restricting valve allows unrestricted fluid flow in a first direction into the housing through the suction inlet and out of the discharge outlet during a first operating condition. The flow restricting valve allows a restricted fluid flow in a second, opposite direction into the housing through the discharge outlet in a second operating condition.

Compressor assembly including a flow-restricting valve

A compressor includes a cylinder block having a first bore and a cylinder head overlapping the cylinder block. The cylinder head has a second bore aligned with the first bore. The second bore is separated into a plurality of distinct regions including a suction region and an economizer region. A plurality of valves includes a suction valve selectively operable to fluidly couple the suction region and the first bore, and an economizer valve selectively operable to fluidly couple the economizer region and the first bore.

Economizer injection in a reciprocating compressor

A seal assembly for a compressor includes at least one impeller. At least one seal land is associated with the impeller including a plurality of radially stepped surfaces. A seal is associated with each of at least one seal lands. The seal includes a plurality of radially stepped projections corresponding to the plurality of radially stepped surfaces on at least one seal land. At least one actuator is configured to move at least one seal land relative to the seal.

Seal assembly for compressor

A vapor compression system and method for operating the vapor compression system are provided. The vapor compression system includes a first compressor, a second compressor, a condenser, and at least one check valve disposed between the first compressor and the condenser. The method provides for the transmitting of a shutdown command to at least one of the first compressor and the second compressor, at least one of the first compressor and the second compressor including a rotating shaft and a magnetic bearing, the magnetic bearing having an active mode and an inactive mode, the magnetic bearing levitating the rotating shaft in the active mode. The method further provides for the monitoring of at least one of a rotational speed of the rotating shaft and a differential pressure over the check valve for a preset time, wherein the magnetic bearing remains in the active mode at least during the preset time.

Magnetic bearing compressor protection

A method of operating a chiller system includes receiving an input from at least one sensor associated with a compressor of the chiller system, determining that the compressor is experiencing a surge or rotating stall event, adjusting at least one operating parameter associated with a heat rejection heat exchanger of the chiller system in response to determining that the compressor is experiencing the surge or rotating stall event, and reducing a condenser saturation temperature by adjusting the at least one operating parameter.

Surge prevention in a chiller with centrifugal compressor

An inlet guide vane mechanism comprises: a flow guide body having a front end section, a middle section and a rear end section, wherein the front end section, the middle section and the rear end section respectively have streamline contours in symmetry about the impeller axis and are transitionally connected by smooth curved surfaces, the flow guide body comprises an air inlet pipe arranged along the impeller axis, one end of the air inlet pipe being fixed at the front end section of the flow guide body, and the other end thereof being fixed at the rear end section of the flow guide body; a support structure for fixing the flow guide body at the air inlet end of the centrifugal compressor; and a plurality of inlet guide vanes rotatably fixed in the circumferential direction of the middle section of the flow guide body through a rotating shaft thereof, respectively.

Inlet guide vane mechanism for centrifugal compressor, centrifugal compressor and refrigeration system

A refrigeration system includes a compressor, a condenser, a throttling device, and an evaporator, which are connected in sequence to form a cooling circuit, the refrigeration system further includes an oil recovery system which includes: an operation chamber, which includes a first port communicating with an oil-containing position in the refrigeration system through a first pipeline, and a second port communicating with a bearing chamber or a bearing lubrication pipeline of the compressor through a second pipeline; and a main piston in the operation chamber, the main piston reciprocating in the operation chamber to perform an extraction stroke and a discharge stroke; in the extraction stroke, an oil-containing refrigerant in the oil-containing position in the refrigeration system is extracted to the operation chamber; and in the discharge stroke, the oil-containing refrigerant in the operation chamber is delivered to the bearing chamber or the bearing lubrication pipeline of the compressor.

Refrigeration system and oil recovery method for the same

A compressor includes a housing, a first compression stage defined within the housing, a second compression stage defined within the housing, and a motor disposed between the first compression stage and the second compression stage relative to a flow of fluid through the compressor. The first compression component of the first compression stage has a mixed-flow configuration and the second compression component of the second compression stage has a radial-flow configuration.

Refrigeration system mixed-flow compressor

An exemplary compressor system includes a compressor having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. An isolation valve connects the fluid outlet of the compressor to a condenser. A controller is communicatively coupled to the isolation valve and the compressor. The controller includes a memory storing instructions configured to cause the controller to detect one of a surge event and a surge event precursor and restrict an opening in the isolation valve in response.

Method and system for compressor operating range extension via active valve control

A vapor compression system includes a compressor that has a suction port and a discharge port. A heat rejection heat exchanger is coupled to the discharge port to receive compressed refrigerant. A heat absorption heat exchanger is coupled to the suction port. A lubricant flowpath goes from the heat absorption heat exchanger to the compressor. A side channel pump is located in the lubricant flowpath.

Refrigerant lubrication system with side channel pump

A refrigerant compressor assembly (A,B,C) includes an axial compressor (B,C,) that includes at least one axial stage. A downstream compressor () is located fluidly downstream of the axial compressor (B,C,) and includes one of a mixed-flow impeller () or a centrifugal impeller (). At least one motor () is in driving engagement with at least one of the axial compressor (B,C,) and the downstream compressor ().

Axial and downstream compressor assembly

An electric compressor motor includes a stator ring having a plurality of stator winding slots and a plurality of stator windings. Each of said stator windings is received in a stator winding slot of the plurality of stator winding slots. The stator ring also includes a plurality of cooling slots. Each cooling slot in the plurality of coolant slots is defined along an axial length of at least one corresponding stator winding slot of the plurality of stator winding slots such that a shared opening between each stator winding slot and at least one corresponding coolant slot is defined. The cooling slots are configured to allow coolant to directly contact at least one stator winding in the corresponding at least one stator winding slot.

Compressor motor including active stator cooling

A shield for controlling the cooling within a hermetically cooled motor, and a compressor incorporating the shield are provided. The shield includes an insulator, at least one fastener, and a venting aperture. The insulator restricts the flow of a working fluid between a first side and a second side. The at least one fastener secures the insulator. The venting aperture controls a pressure differential between the first side and the second side. The venting aperture may include at least one hole through the insulator. The venting aperture may be provided as a hole through the insulator for the rotating shaft of the compressor.

Magnetic bearing cooling management

A control method for a centrifugal compressor and an air conditioning system. The control method for the centrifugal compressor includes: S, when an inlet opening of the centrifugal compressor is below a first preset value, shutting down a drive motor of the centrifugal compressor; or S, when the inlet opening of the centrifugal compressor is not below the first preset value, performing the following operations in a preset order: decreasing the inlet opening of the centrifugal compressor, and increasing a rotate speed of the centrifugal compressor.

Control method for centrifugal compressor and air conditioning system

A centrifugal compressor and a method of operating a centrifugal compressor. The centrifugal compressor includes: an impeller configured to suction a gas to be compressed; a diffuser disposed downstream of the impeller to pressurize the gas, the diffuser comprising a movable ring, a main passage in which the gas flows past the ring, and an openable branch passage; and a circulation loop comprising an inlet and an outlet, the outlet being in communication with an inlet of the impeller; the branch passage is disposed to be in communication with the main passage and the circulation loop when the ring moves into the main passage so that a portion of the gas in the main passage passes through the circulation loop and returns to the impeller so as to be suctioned, and to be closed when the ring is withdrawn from the main passage.

Centrifugal compressor and method of operating the same

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Vishnu Mohan Sishtla