Carrier Corporation

William Herve Rousseau

Alexander Lifson

James William Bush

Mark A Daniels

Timothy C Wagner

Donald Yannascoli

Reng Rong Lin

Duane C Mccormick

Thomas S Katra

Jianping Zhong

Patrick C Marks

Gavin Hendricks

H Ezzat Khalifa

Dochul Choi

Jeffrey A Math

Tim Wagner

Donald Yannoscoli

Rene Lin

Jeffery J Nieter

The compressor in a refrigeration system is controlled solely by a variable speed drive which controls the motor of the compressor by virtue of the varying of the frequency of the electricity provided to the motor. To minimize the initial cost and to minimize operating costs, the variable speed drive is cooled by refrigerant from the refrigeration system which permits the use of a smaller drive, and the variable speed drive is operated at, or approaching, a unity power factor.

Variable speed drive chiller system

A discharge collector and diffuser for a screw compressor, including a housing having an inlet for receiving flow from a compressor and an outlet and defining therebetween a collector portion, a transition portion and a diffuser portion, the collector portion being adapted to receive a plurality of non-parallel streams from a compressor and to guide the streams into a substantially parallel flow direction, the housing further having a splitter plate positioned in the collector portion to separate the non-parallel streams from each other, whereby the streams are maintained separate until they are substantially parallel, thereby reducing flow losses.

Discharge diffuser for screw compressor

A screw compressor includes a housing and a screw rotor disposed in the housing and rotatable relative to the housing for compressing a refrigerant, the housing and the screw rotor having a rest condition, and an operating condition wherein at least one of the housing and the rotor deflect from the rest condition, and structure for at least one of reducing deflection from the rest condition and evenly distributing deflection from the rest condition when the rotor is in the operating condition, whereby clearance between the housing and the rotor is optimized in the operating condition.

Screw compressors with rotor and casing design for controlling deflections

A compressor for compressing refrigerant in an air conditioning or refrigeration system, including a housing having a suction port, a discharge port, and a compression chamber, a mechanism for producing a compression cycle for compressing the refrigerant, wherein the compression cycle occurs in the suction port, discharge port and compression chamber, and a mechanism for providing liquid refrigerant into the compression cycle at a desired location for reducing pressure pulsations and associated radiated noise produced during the compression cycle.

Liquid injection for reduced discharge pressure pulsation in compressors

A screw compressor includes a housing having a discharge port; at least two rotors rotatably disposed in the housing for generating opposed discharge flows in radial and axial directions; and a tangential flow guide cusp disposed in the discharge port and at least partially defining a radial flow portion of the discharge port and having flow guiding surfaces arranged to guide tangential flows from said rotors so as to provide at least one of radial and axial directed flows.

Discharge porting for screw compressor with tangential flow guide cusp

A screw compressor including a housing having a discharge port; a plurality of rotors including at least one male rotor and at least one female rotor rotatably disposed in the housing for generating a discharge flow through the discharge port, the discharge port having a radial portion and an axial portion, wherein the discharge port is positioned relative to the plurality of rotors so that the radial portion opens prior to the axial portion whereby kinetic energy in the discharge flow can be recovered.

Discharge porting design for screw compressor

A screw compressor includes a housing having a discharge port; and at least two rotors disposed in the housing for generating opposed discharge flows through the discharge port, wherein the discharge port has edges defining a discharge opening, and wherein the edges are rounded so as to smooth flow of the discharge flows past the edges.

Screw compression flow guide for discharge loss reduction

A screw compressor includes at least two components defining at least two operating zones of different pressure and having surfaces defining a flow point between the at least two zones, and a surface treatment positioned on the surfaces so as to reduce clearance between the surfaces, and thereby reduce leakage through the flow point.

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Savannah, GA, United States of America

William Herve Rousseau