Centrifugal compressor casing and centrifugal compressor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10539151-B2
Application number	US-201515546221-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2015
Priority date	Jan 27, 2015
Publication date	Jan 21, 2020
Grant date	Jan 21, 2020

Abstract

A centrifugal compressor casing, comprising a bundle which rotatably supports a rotating shaft, and an impeller fixed to the rotating shaft and that rotates with the rotating shaft about an axis of the rotating shaft, and in which an annular suction flow channel centered on the axis introduces fluid into the flow channel of the impeller, and an annular discharge flow channel centered on the axis that discharges the fluid from the flow channel of the impeller, are formed; a casing main body which covers the bundle from the outer circumferential side; and a volute piece which is provided on an inner surface of the casing main body in the discharge flow channel.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A centrifugal compressor casing, comprising:
a bundle that rotatably supports a rotating shaft, and an impeller fixed to the rotating shaft and that rotates with the rotating shaft about an axis of the rotating shaft;
an annular suction flow channel centered on the axis that introduces fluid into a flow channel of the impeller;
an annular discharge flow channel centered on the axis that discharges the fluid from the flow channel of the impeller;
a casing main body that covers the bundle from an outer circumferential side;
a volute piece that is disposed on and in direct contact with an inner surface of the casing main body in the discharge flow channel, and has a thickness dimension in a radial direction of the rotating shaft which gradually decreases toward an outlet of the discharge flow channel in a downstream side in a flowing direction of the fluid, in the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft; and
a fastening member that fixes the volute piece to the casing main body, wherein
the volute piece comprises a first piece portion disposed on the downstream side in the flowing direction of the fluid; and
a second piece portion that is formed separately from the first piece portion and is disposed on an upstream side of the first piece portion in the flowing direction of the fluid.

2. The centrifugal compressor casing according to claim 1 , wherein
the fastening member penetrates the casing main body from outside in the radial direction and is fixed to the volute piece to fix the volute piece to the casing main body, and
the centrifugal compressor casing further comprises a closing member which is provided on the casing main body from the outside in the radial direction, and closes a through-hole through which the fastening member penetrates the casing main body.

3. The centrifugal compressor casing according to claim 1 , wherein the fastening member penetrates the volute piece from an inside in the radial direction and is fixed to the casing main body to fix the volute piece to the casing main body.

4. The centrifugal compressor casing according to claim 1 , wherein
the first piece portion comprises a protruding portion that protrudes toward the second piece portion in the circumferential direction,
the second piece portion comprises an engaging portion that engages with the protruding portion and is supported from an inside in the radial direction by the protruding portion, and
the fastening member is provided in first piece portion but not the second piece portion.

5. The centrifugal compressor casing according to claim 1 , wherein a material of the casing main body is a high-strength material having a yield strength of 500 [N/mm 2 ] or more.

6. A centrifugal compressor, comprising:
the casing according to claim 1 ;
the rotating shaft supported by the casing to be rotatable with respect to the casing; and
the impeller which is fixed to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the bundle with the rotating shaft.

7. The centrifugal compressor casing according to claim 1 , wherein
the second piece portion comprises a protruding portion that protrudes toward the first piece portion in the circumferential direction,
the first piece portion comprises an engaging portion that engages with the protruding portion and is supported from an inside in the radial direction by the protruding portion, and
the fastening member is provided in the second piece portion but not the first piece portion.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Compressor Corp

Inventors

• Yamada Hideki

Classifications

• F04D29/428

  Discharge tongues (F04D17/04 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F04D29/4226

  Fan casings · CPC title

• F04D29/422

  Discharge tongues (F04D17/04 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F04D17/125

  the casing being vertically split · CPC title

• F04D29/624

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title