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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2013
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A gas compressor includes a compressor unit having a compressor body for compressing gas and an electricity-generation device generating electricity by obtaining a driving force by vaporizing a working fluid utilizing exhaust heat generated by a compressing action in the compressor body and expanding the working fluid so as to utilize the power generated by the electricity-generation device as a power source, and includes a switch device switching between power from the electricity generation device and power from a commercial power supply to supply power to the power consumption equipment, and a control device detecting an electricity-generation amount or a value correlative to the electricity generation amount and switching between the powers by the switch device, thereby generating the power using exhaust heat as a heat source to surely drive an auxiliary machine by a simple configuration regardless of a shortage of the electricity generation amount.