Centrifugal compressor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10989201-B2
Application number	US-201716088352-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2017
Priority date	Mar 29, 2016
Publication date	Apr 27, 2021
Grant date	Apr 27, 2021

Abstract

A centrifugal compressor includes: a rotating shaft; a first impeller; a second impeller which is disposed on a downstream side of the first impeller; a return flow path which guides a first fluid flowing to a radially outer side from the first impeller toward a radially inner side; an introduction flow path which introduces the fluid guided to the radially inner side to the second impeller; an intermediate suction flow path which additionally supplies a second fluid to the second impeller; and a curved flow path which is connected to a downstream side of the introduction flow path and the intermediate suction flow path, and guides the first fluid and the second fluid to the second impeller, wherein a side surface on an upstream side of the introduction flow path is disposed on the downstream side from a return position of the return flow path.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A centrifugal compressor comprising:
a rotating shaft which extends in an axial direction;
a first impeller which is provided on the rotating shaft;
a second impeller which is provided on the rotating shaft and disposed on a downstream side of the first impeller;
a return flow path which guides a first fluid flowing to a radially outer side from the first impeller toward a radially inner side;
an introduction flow path which introduces the first fluid guided to the radially inner side by the return flow path to the second impeller;
a plurality of return vanes provided in the introduction flow path;
an intermediate suction flow path which is adjacent to the introduction flow path and additionally supplies a second fluid to the second impeller;
a plurality of straightening vanes provided on a radially inner side of the intermediate suction flow path; and
a curved flow path which is connected to a downstream side of the introduction flow path and the intermediate suction flow path, extends to be bent toward the downstream side in the axial direction, and guides the first fluid and the second fluid to the second impeller,
wherein a side surface on an upstream side of the introduction flow path is disposed on the downstream side from a return position of the return flow path in the axial direction, and
wherein a position of a radially inner end of the downstream side of the straightening vane in the radial direction is the same as a position of a radially inner end on the downstream side of the return vane in the radial direction at an end of an upstream side of the curved flow path.

2. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 1 , wherein, when an angle formed between the side surface on the upstream side of the introduction flow path and a surface orthogonal to an axis is θ, the side surface on the upstream side of the introduction flow path is formed to satisfy 0°≤θ≤15°.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Compressor Corp

Inventors

• Yamashita Shuichi
• Nakaniwa Akihiro
• Saito Ryosuke
• Tokuyama Shinichiro

Classifications

• F05D2250/314

  the axes being inclined in relation to each other · CPC title

• F04D29/444

  Bladed diffusers · CPC title

• F04D17/122 Primary

  the individual rotor discs being, one for each stage, on a common shaft and axially spaced, e.g. conventional centrifugal multi- stage compressors · CPC title

• F04D29/4213

  suction ports · CPC title

• F05D2250/51

  Inlet · CPC title