Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Zenichi Yoshida

Kenji Ueda

Akio Kishimoto

Yutaka Ozawa

Koji Takeshita

Hidekazu Uehara

Eisaku Ito

Tanehiro Shinohara

Tetsu Konishi

Masanori Yuri

Yasushi Mori

Ryotaro Magoshi

Kazuhiko Yamashita

Kouichi Akagi

Toshiyuki Osada

Yasuharu Yamamoto

Takumi Hori

Kimihiko Mitsuda

Yutaka Kawata

Hiroshi Funakoshi

Nobuhiro Kunitake

Hiroshi Kanki

Shigeki Morii

Takahiro Ohta

Masahiko Toyoda

Kazuso Katayama

Manabu Maeda

Akihiro Kawaguchi

Setunori Sakakibara

Hidehiko Nakane

Kazuhiko Imoto

A rotary machine has a housing that houses a fluid in a supercritical state, a rotary shaft that penetrates the housing, rotation rings that rotate integrally with the rotary shaft, and stationary rings that contact the rotation rings when the rotary shaft is stopped, the stationary rings being positioned in a state in which sealing gaps are defined between the rotation rings and the stationary rings when the rotary shaft rotates, a circulating pipe path that supplies a portion of the fluid to inlet portions of the sealing gaps, a temperature-adjusting device that adjusts a temperature of the fluid in the circulating pipe path, and a control unit that controls operation of the temperature-adjusting device so as to heat the inlet portions of the sealing gaps to a predetermined temperature before the rotary shaft is driven.

Rotary machine

A rotating shaft is supported by journal bearings that can support without contacting the rotating shaft itself. Then, one end of both shaft end portions of the rotating shaft has a main impeller installed and the other end is provided with a sub impeller. By utilizing a force being generated by rotation of the main impeller, liquid being pumped (fluid being pumped) is sucked in through a suction port and discharged through a discharge port. On the other hand, by utilizing a force being generated by rotation of the sub impeller, fluid is transported to the journal bearings, thereby having the journal bearings support the rotating shaft.

Sealless pump

A seal ring provided between a rotating portion and a fixed portion in a rotating machine of steam turbine and the like is improved to accurately carry out predetermined movement so as to not cause deterioration of sealing performance. The seal ring is split into upper, lower, right side and left side seal ring pieces slidably contacting with each other via split planes with spaces being formed in the respective split planes. Springs are interposed in the spaces for activation in upward and downward directions. The upper and lower seal ring pieces are engaged with seal ring guides and the right side and left side seal ring pieces are engaged with seal ring guides so that all of the seal ring pieces are slidable in the upward and downward directions. Further, on the respective tips of the seal ring guides spaces of the upper seal ring piece and spaces of the lower seal ring piece are formed and springs are provided in the spaces for activation in the upward and downward directions. The respective seal ring pieces are prevented from skirmishing with each other and the upper and lower seal ring pieces move toward the inner side at the time of load so as to make narrower the clearances between seal fins and a corresponding rotor surface.

Seal ring for steam turbine

A shaft seal having a high abrasion resistance is disclosed, by which the leakage of the gas from the high-pressure side to the low-pressure side can be reduced. In the shaft seal, flexible leaves are multi-layered to form a ring shape. The shaft seal is mainly arranged around the rotation shaft of a gas turbine or the like. The relevant turbine comprises a casing, a compressor, a rotation shaft, moving blades attached to the rotation shaft, and stationary blades attached to the casing in a manner such that the stationary blades face the moving blades, wherein the shaft seals are provided between a plurality of stationary blades and the rotation shaft wherein the leaves of each shaft seal contact the rotation shaft. Under the rated operating conditions, the top ends of the leaves slightly separate from the surface of the rotation shaft due to the dynamic pressure generated by the rotation of the rotation shaft. When the turbine is not operated, the top ends of the leaves contact the rotation shaft again due to the elastic restoring force of the leaves.

Shaft seal and turbine using the same

A compressor (30) for use in a refrigerator, which has a rotary shaft (33) supported by bearings (39 to 42) to be lubricated by a liquid refrigerant and is adapted to permit the rotary shaft 33 to continue rotating for a while after a liquid refrigerant pump (36) is stopped at, for example, a power failure, thereby preventing the bearings (39 to 42) from being damaged. To that end, the compressor (30) is further provided with a header (52) for storing a predetermined amount of a high-pressure liquid refrigerant, and with check valves (51, 54 and 56) for maintaining the internal pressure of this header (52) at a high pressure for a predetermined time period after a power failure occurs.

Compressor for use in refrigerator

A compressor for use in a refrigerator, which has a rotary shaft supported by bearings to be lubricated by a liquid refrigerant and is adapted to permit the rotary shaft to continue rotating for a while after a liquid refrigerant pump is stopped at, for example, a power failure, thereby preventing the bearings from being damaged. To that end the compressor has a reservoir liquid tank for storing high pressure liquid refrigerant to be supplied to the bearing and a gas storage tank for storing high pressure gas. There is a valve system connected between the gas storage tank and the reservoir liquid tank which is operable upon a power failure to supply high pressure gas to the liquid storage tank.

A parallel type refrigerator provided with a plurality of condensing chambers which are formed by partitioning the inside of a shell of a condenser by partition plates so that a cooling medium flows through tubes respectively provided in the plurality of condensing chambers in sequence, and further provided with a plurality of evaporating chambers which are formed by partitioning the inside of a shell of an evaporator by partition plates so that a cooled medium flows through tubes respectively provided in the plurality of evaporating chambers in sequence. Further, in this apparatus, the plurality of condensing chambers of the condenser, the plurality of throttling mechanisms, the plurality of evaporating chambers and the plurality of compressors are connected through refrigerant piping so that refrigerants discharged from the plurality of compressors are circulated to the plurality of compressors through the plurality of condensing chambers of the condenser, the plurality of throttling mechanisms and the plurality of evaporating chambers in this order.

Parallel type refrigerator

A turborefrigerator in which a coolant discharged from a turbocompressor is condensed in a condenser by dissipating heat to a cooling medium and is then reduced by a throttling mechanism, and thereafter, the coolant evaporates by absorbing heat from a cooled medium in an evaporator and is circulated to the turbocompressor. The present invention simplifies the configuration of such a turborefrigerator, so that the size, weight and cost thereof are reduced. Moreover, the present invention enhances the coefficient of performance thereof and prevents lubricating oil and a cooling medium from blending with each other to cause inconveniences. Thus, the turborefrigerator of the present invention is further provided with an inverter motor whose output shaft directly connected to an impeller of the turbocompressor is supported by a bearing lubricated by a liquid refrigerant, and with a control unit adapted to control both of a suction vane, which is provided in the turbocompressor, and the inverter motor by associating said suction vane and the inverter motor with each other.

Turborefrigerator

In a sealing device for a rotary machine of the type that an annular groove is provided in an inner circumferential surface of a through-hole of a stationary member through which a rotary body supported rotatably by a bearing device extends, gap spaces between the rotary body and the both side portions of the stationary member on the opposite sides of the annular groove are sealed by seal rings, and a seal fluid feed hole for feeding a sealing fluid into the annular groove is provided in the stationary member; improvements are made in that a vibration suppressing movable ring is accommodated within the annular groove, the movable ring is mounted to the stationary member so as to be movable only in a radial direction so that an outside annular gap clearance may be formed between an outer circumferential surface of the movable ring and an inner circumferential surface of the annular groove and also an inside annular gap clearance may be formed between an inner circumferential surface of an inner hole of the movable ring and an outer circumferential surface of the rotary body which extends through the inner hole, the inside gap clearance is divided into a plurality of arcuate gap clearance sections, and the respective arcuate gap clearance sections a formed in a wedge-like shape that is gradually narrowed towards the downstream side in the direction of rotation of the rotary body.

Vibration suppressing sealing device for a rotary machine

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Zenichi Yoshida