Filter with integrated heater, and rotary machine system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10683869-B2
Application number	US-201515561928-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 2, 2015
Priority date	Apr 2, 2015
Publication date	Jun 16, 2020
Grant date	Jun 16, 2020

Abstract

A filter with an integrated heater takes in a portion of a fluid of a rotary machine or an external fluid and generates a seal gas that seals the fluid in the rotary machine. The filter with an integrated heater includes: a casing that includes suction port and an ejection port; a filter main body disposed in the casing; and a heater disposed between the filter main body and the ejection port in the casing. The suction port takes in the portion of the fluid or the external fluid from the rotary machine, the ejection port ejects the fluid or the external fluid, and fluid or the external fluid from the suction port passes through the filter main body.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A filter with an integrated heater that takes in a portion of a fluid of a rotary machine or an external fluid and generates a seal gas that seals the fluid in the rotary machine, the filter with an integrated heater comprising:
a casing comprising a suction port and an ejection port, wherein
the suction port takes in the portion of the fluid or the external fluid from the rotary machine, and
the ejection port ejects the fluid or the external fluid;

a filter main body disposed in the casing, wherein the fluid or the external fluid from the suction port passes through the filter main body;
a heater disposed between the filter main body and the ejection port in the casing; and
a partition member placed between the filter main body and the heater in the casing with a gap present between the filter main body and the partition member and interrupting a flow of the fluid or the external fluid from the filter main body to the heater.

2. The filter with an integrated heater according to claim 1 , wherein
the filter main body has a cylindrical shape about an axis,
the suction port is open toward an inner portion of the filter main body on one side of the filter main body in a direction of the axis, and
the heater is disposed to cover the filter main body from an outer periphery side.

3. The filter with an integrated heater according to claim 2 , wherein the heater has a shape of a spiral line twisted from one part of the axis toward the other part of the axis toward one part of the filter main body in a circumferential direction and is disposed to cover the filter main body from the outer periphery side.

4. The filter with an integrated heater according to claim 2 , wherein the heater has a cylindrical shape about the axis.

5. The filter with an integrated heater according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an inside heater disposed on the filter main body side,
wherein the filter main body side is an inner side of the partition member.

6. The filter with an integrated heater according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a liquid separation unit that removes a liquid from the fluid or the external fluid supplied to the filter main body.

7. A rotary machine system comprising:
a rotary machine through which a fluid circulates;
the filter with an integrated heater according to claim 1 , which takes in the portion of the fluid from the rotary machine or the external fluid and generates the seal gas; and
a gas seal device disposed in the rotary machine that seals the fluid in the rotary machine using the seal gas.

8. A filter with an integrated heater that takes in a portion of a fluid of a rotary machine or an external fluid and generates a seal gas that seals the fluid in the rotary machine, the filter with an integrated heater comprising:
a casing comprising a suction port and an ejection port, wherein
the suction port takes in the portion of the fluid or the external fluid from the rotary machine, and
the ejection port ejects the fluid or the external fluid;

a filter main body disposed in the casing, wherein the fluid or the external fluid from the suction port passes through the filter main body; and
a heater disposed between the filter main body and the ejection port in the casing, wherein
the filter main body has a cylindrical shape about an axis,
the suction port is open toward an inner portion of the filter main body on one side of the filter main body in a direction of the axis, and
the heater is disposed to cover the filter main body from an outer periphery side, has a cylindrical shape about the axis, and interrupts a flow of the fluid or the external fluid from the filter main body to the heater.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Compressor Corp

Inventors

• Sano Yusaku
• Nagashima Jun
• Hayashi Masahiro
• Takeda Tomoaki

Classifications

• F04D29/124 Primary

  with special means for adducting cooling or sealing fluid · CPC title

• B01D50/20

  Combinations of devices covered by groups B01D45/00 and B01D46/00 · CPC title

• F04D17/10

  for compressing or evacuating · CPC title

• F04D29/582

  specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• F04D29/706

  Humidity separation · CPC title