Ammonia plant synthesis gas compressor train

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11788546-B2
Application number	US-202017082752-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2020
Priority date	Nov 1, 2019
Publication date	Oct 17, 2023
Grant date	Oct 17, 2023

Abstract

An ammonia plant synthesis gas compressor train includes a steam turbine; and a compression unit that compresses a synthesis gas by being rotationally driven by the steam turbine. The compression unit includes a rotary shaft that rotates around an axis, and a plurality of impellers that are provided on the rotary shaft at intervals in a direction of the axis and are rotated integrally with the rotary shaft to pump a gas outward in a radial direction to compress the gas. In at least one of the impellers, a maximum operating peripheral speed at a radially outermost position of the impeller is within a range of 290 m/s to 390 m/s, a yield strength is 827 MPa or less, and a Brinell hardness is 311 or less.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An ammonia plant synthesis gas compressor train comprising:
a steam turbine;
a low-pressure stage compressor driven by the steam turbine and configured to compress a synthesis gas containing hydrogen; and
a high-pressure stage compressor driven by the steam turbine and configured to compress the synthesis gas compressed by the low-pressure stage compressor,
wherein the low-pressure stage compressor and the high-pressure stage compressor are compression units, wherein each of the compression units is configured to compress the synthesis gas by being rotationally driven by the steam turbine,
wherein each of the compression units includes:
a rotary shaft that is configured to rotate around an axis, and
a plurality of impellers that are disposed on the rotary shaft at intervals in a direction of the axis and are configured to rotate integrally with the rotary shaft to pump a gas outward in a radial direction to compress the gas,

wherein, in all of the plurality of impellers of the low-pressure stage compressor and the high-pressure stage compressor,
a maximum operating peripheral speed at a radially outermost position of each of the plurality of impellers is within a range of 290 m/s to 390 m/s,
a yield strength is 827 MPa or less,
a Brinell hardness is 311 HB or less, and
a material to form is nickel-chromium-molybdenum steel,

wherein a maximum rotational speed of the low-pressure stage compressor and the high-pressure stage compressor are within a range of 12,000 rpm to 16,000 rpm,
wherein the synthesis gas is a gas in which a partial pressure of hydrogen exceeds 689 kPa or a hydrogen concentration at any pressure exceeds 90 mol%,
wherein the steam turbine is disposed between the low-pressure stage compressor and the high-pressure stage compressor,
wherein each of the low-pressure stage compressor and the high-pressure stage compressor includes:
a compressor casing; and
a bundle that has the rotary shaft and the plurality of impellers and is housed in the compressor casing,

wherein the bundle is attachable to and detachable from the compressor casing in a state where the rotary shaft and the plurality of impellers are held, and
wherein the bundles of the low-pressure stage compressor and the high-pressure stage compressor are each configured to move in the direction of the axis so as to be separated from the steam turbine.

2. The ammonia plant synthesis gas compressor train according to claim 1 ,
wherein the steam turbine includes:
a turbine shaft that is configured to rotate around an axis,
a pair of journal bearings that supports the turbine shaft to be rotatable around the axis, and
a pair of thrust bearings that is disposed between the pair of journal bearings and supports the turbine shaft in the direction of the axis.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Compressor Corp

Inventors

• Oishi Yusuke
• Oka Hiroaki

Classifications

• F04D29/321 Primary

  for axial flow compressors · CPC title

• C01C1/0417

  characterised by the synthesis reactor, e.g. arrangement of catalyst beds and heat exchangers in the reactor · CPC title

• F04D29/041

  Axial thrust balancing · CPC title

• F04D29/053

  Shafts · CPC title

• F04D29/403

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title