EP0919724B1 - Hydraulically driven double acting diaphragm pump - Google Patents
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- EP0919724B1 EP0919724B1 EP98830707A EP98830707A EP0919724B1 EP 0919724 B1 EP0919724 B1 EP 0919724B1 EP 98830707 A EP98830707 A EP 98830707A EP 98830707 A EP98830707 A EP 98830707A EP 0919724 B1 EP0919724 B1 EP 0919724B1
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
- F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
- F04B43/00—Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members
- F04B43/02—Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members having plate-like flexible members, e.g. diaphragms
- F04B43/06—Pumps having fluid drive
- F04B43/073—Pumps having fluid drive the actuating fluid being controlled by at least one valve
- F04B43/0733—Pumps having fluid drive the actuating fluid being controlled by at least one valve with fluid-actuated pump inlet or outlet valves; with two or more pumping chambers in series
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- the present invention relates to a device for pumping liquids or aeriform substances, with double-acting reciprocating motion obtained hydraulically.
- Liquid and aeriform pumping systems can be substantially subdivided into two classes: (a) fluid dynamic action systems, such as for example centrifugal pumps and the like, based on the laws of fluid dynamics and on the transfer between the momentum and the mechanical energy, and (b) positive-displacement systems, based on the variation of the volume enclosed in a pump casing by both direct and indirect mechanical action by means of a working fluid.
- fluid dynamic action systems such as for example centrifugal pumps and the like
- positive-displacement systems based on the variation of the volume enclosed in a pump casing by both direct and indirect mechanical action by means of a working fluid.
- the present invention relates to a device for pumping liquids or aeriform substances of the above-mentioned type, which is included in the system class of the(b) group indicated above.
- Said device is schematized in the annexed figure 1, and it is a reciprocating positive displacement pumping system indirectly operated by a fluid (oil) pressurized in a continuous way by means of a rotary positive displacement pump, in particular a gear pump which cooperates by means of a mechanical transmission of the same driving force which operates the pump, with a rotary valve which reverses the oil flow between the reciprocating pumping unit and a tank.
- Figure 2 shows the behavior, as a function of time, of the flow rate of a pumping system such as the one showed in figure 1 according to the Italian patent No 1,262,358 previously referred to.
- the pumping action is of a pulsating type, and the flow rate or delivery is similar to a square wave.
- the pulsation is due to the fact that the diaphragm pumping unit (figure 1) is of the single acting type, and corresponds to the electrical analogy of a single half-wave rectifier.
- Such pulsating behavior can suit numerous applications, but. in the case of high flow rates and pressures the pulsation of the pumped fluid, be it a liquid or an aeriform substance, may involve many problems such as periodic stresses in the system fed by the pump, with possible drawbacks due to fatigue stress of the components, noise and flow discontinuity which can prove harmful to refrigerators or heat pumps operating on an absorption cycle, as it is well-known to a man skilled in the art.
- the aim of the present invention is to provide a device for pumping liquids or aeriform substances with a double-acting reciprocating motion or action, with diaphragm pumping units, or the like, of the class described in the above-mentioned Italian patent.
- US 4,543,044 describes a dual-unit pump comprising: two piston pumping units adapted to function cooperatively; sealing means for dividing the housing of each piston into a variable-volume working liquid chamber and a complementary delivery liquid chamber; and flow control means apt to alternatively switch the flow of the two liquids from the housing of a piston to the other, which means includes a constant-delivery pump for the working liquid connected to said housings, valves and a tank.
- EP 0 568 742 describes a method for transferring a production fluid incorporating liquid and gaseous phases from a well to an export point, which provides a system comprising two chambers at the lower parts of which liquid from a high pressure source is introduced by the action of a single phase liquid pump associated with a two position spool valve. The latter alternatively connects the chambers to the upstream and downstream sides of the pump.
- a pumping system as claimed in claim 1 is provided.
- An oil control assembly which comprises a prime motor consisting of an electric motor 10 which operates a positive displacement rotary pump 11, in particular a gear pump, to move a driving fluid (oil).
- the transmission of mechanical operation by gear pump 11 through a reduction gear 12 operates a rotary valve 13 which supplies or withdraws oil from a first diaphragm pumping unit 14 and from a second diaphragm pumping unit 15.
- the circuit of the oil which is the working fluid, and the arrangement of the ways of the rotary valve 13 imply a push-pull working of the pumping units 14 and 15, that is a 180° phase shift between the flow rate/pressure pulsations generated in the pumped fluid.
- the "voids" shown in the schematization of the operative modes of the single-acting pumping system of figure 2 are eliminated.
- a tank 16, not pressurized is provided, which, in order to compensate the expansion of the working fluid (oil), operates like an expansion tank, wherein the excess pressure from the pump 11 is discharged by means of a calibrated overpressure or safety valve 17.
- Makeup oil can be withdrawn from the tank or expansion tank by means of a valve 18 which can be suitably calibrated, in order to prevent short circuits at the oil side during intake at low pressures.
- This valve 18 is calibrated at a suitably low pressure to allow the suction of fluids at pressures equal or higher than the calibration pressure.
- the pipe coming from the valve 18, together with the oil intake line at the side of the diaphragm units 14, 15 leads to tank 19 wherein a filter F is possibly located, which has an outlet 20 connected to the intake side of the gear pump 11.
- An assembly of unidirectional valves 21, 22,23,24 in the configuration which is well known in electronics as "Graetz bridge", is located on the process side of the diaphragm pumping units 14,15.
- the valves 21,22,23,24 are respectively connected to suction 25 and delivery 26 pipes.
- figure 5 a second variant of the practical embodiment of figure 4 is shown.
- a further safety valve 27, which is calibrated at a lower pressure than safety valve 17, can be provided on the delivery side of the pump 11.
- the valve 27 is closed during the normal operation of the system, while, on the contrary, it is used during the first minutes of the system startup only to allow the discharge of the possible excess oil let into the charge, together with the one resulting from the thermal expansion at the normal operating temperature.
- the variant of figure 6 corresponds to the one of figure 5.
- the tank is partially full and the free space 28 over the oil mass serves as an expansion space to compensate the thermal expansions of the oil.
- FIG. 7 A further embodiment is shown in figure 7, corresponding in part to the one in figure 6.
- the pressure on the intake side of the diaphragm pumping units will have to be higher than the atmospheric pressure at least by the value required to overcome the elasticity of the diaphragm added to the pressure losses on the oil side. Otherwise, as it is evident, no pumping action would take place.
- a diaphragm expansion tank 30 in the circuit of the working oil, is provided, only partially filled with oil.
- the diaphragm expansion tank 30 allows the thermal expansion of the oil by means of the discharge valve, while the calibrated makeup valve allows the normal pumping with intake of oil from the diaphragm units and, only for makeup, also from the expansion tank.
- the expansion tank 30 is connected on the side opposite to the oil side, to the intake pipe on the process side, so as to cause the makeup pressure of the makeup valve to adjust automatically to the intake pressure on the process side, hence eliminating the occurrence of short-circuits on the oil side.
- the oil circuit remains sealed on the environment side in order to prevent leaks of harmful substances in case of a break of the pumping units' diaphragms.
- Said separation between the oil and the process fluid can be obtained, as it is known to a man skilled in the art, by means of elastic seals between the cylinder and the piston with or without the aid of a so-called "lantern” separating the cylinder on the process side from the cylinder on the oil side.
- the free-piston pumping unit comprises a cylinder 40 inside which a piston 41, kept sealed by seals 42, can slide.
- the piston 41 defines a first control chamber 43 wherein a working fluid (oil) can be forwarded and withdrawn by means of a line 44, and a second working or positive displacement pumping chamber 45, which cooperates with a delivery valve 46 and a suction valve 47.
- the valves 46, 47 are respectively snown as unidirectional valves of the ball type with a conical seat, however, it is clear that they can be of other shapes.
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- A device for pumping liquids or aeriform substances of a double-acting reciprocating type, comprising a first (14) and a second (15) pumping unit, provided with a separating element between a working fluid and a pumped fluid such that the two fluids can not mix one with the other, which units are connected to an oil control assembly arranged to induce reciprocating motions in said separating elements of said units (14, 15) by means of pressurized oil, so as to produce a suction phase in one unit (14; 15) and a delivery phase in the other unit (15; 14) and viceversa, in a continuous way,
characterized in that
said oil control assembly comprises at least a motor (10), a positive displacement rotary oil pump (11), a revolution reduction gear (12), a four-way connecting rotary valve (13) and a working oil tank (19) for said pumping units (14, 15), operatively interconnected,
said working oil tank (19) has an outlet (20) connected to the intake side of said oil pump (11), and
said working oil tank (19) is closed and it has means for keeping its pressure at a lower value than the pressure of the pumped fluid on the intake side ("suction") of said first (14) and second (15) pumping units. - A device according to claim 1, characterized in that said pumping units (14, 15) are of the diaphragm type.
- A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said oil control assembly produces pulsations of the square-wave type with a 180° phase shift, obtained by cyclically reversing the suction and the delivery of said positive displacement rotary pump (11).
- A device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said rotary valve (13) comprises two flat facing disks, the first one being a fixed disk with connecting holes for the oil pipes, the second being a moving disk with slots apt to cyclically invert the holes on the fixed disk two by two, placed in a suitable sealed box which in its turn is pressurized by means of a hole which connects it to a pressurized oil pipe, so as to insure wear clearance between the two disks by means of the hydraulic oil thrust.
- A device according to claim 4, characterized in that said moving disk is formed directly on the slow gear wheel of the revolution reduction gear.
- A device according to one or more of preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises an external oil expansion tank (16) under atmospheric pressure to which is connected the discharge of a safety valve (17), located on the delivery side of said rotary positive displacement pump (11), and from which a makeup valve draws, calibrated at a suitably low pressure to allow the suction of pumped fluids at pressures equal or higher than the calibration pressure.
- A device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the two pumping units are oversized so that thermal expansion of the working fluid is possible and in that it comprises an internal by-pass safety valve (17) between the delivery and the suction of said pump (11).
- A device according to claim 7, characterized in that it comprises a second safety valve (27), sealed during normal operation, which allows the outside discharge of possible excess oil let in during the charging phase.
- A device according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the oil tank (19) is partially filled up and, during the initial charging phase, is set at a sufficiently low pressure to allow the suction of pumped fluids at pressures higher than the pressure existing in said tank.
- A device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises a pressurized oil expansion tank (30) having the same intake pressure of the fluid to be pumped, which comprises a diaphragm expansion tank in order to prevent leaks of harmful substances which may have come in contact with the oil and in order to prevent short-circuits in the oil.
- A device according to one or more of claims 1 and from 3 to 10, characterized in that said pumping units are of the free-piston type.
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ITRM970739 | 1997-11-28 | ||
IT97RM000739A IT1297087B1 (en) | 1997-11-28 | 1997-11-28 | DEVICE FOR PUMPING LIQUIDS OR AERIFORMS, WITH DOUBLE ACTING ALTERNATIVE MOTION OBTAINED BY HYDRAULIC SYSTEM. |
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EP0919724A2 EP0919724A2 (en) | 1999-06-02 |
EP0919724A3 EP0919724A3 (en) | 2000-04-19 |
EP0919724B1 true EP0919724B1 (en) | 2005-07-06 |
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EP2154371A1 (en) | 2008-08-14 | 2010-02-17 | Bran + Lübbe GmbH | Pumping device |
DE202008010872U1 (en) | 2008-08-14 | 2010-02-25 | Bran+Luebbe Gmbh | pump device |
CN101245779B (en) * | 2008-03-07 | 2010-04-21 | 上海凯泉泵业(集团)有限公司 | Oil balancing system of reciprocating oil isolation membrane pump fluid end |
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CN101245779B (en) * | 2008-03-07 | 2010-04-21 | 上海凯泉泵业(集团)有限公司 | Oil balancing system of reciprocating oil isolation membrane pump fluid end |
EP2154371A1 (en) | 2008-08-14 | 2010-02-17 | Bran + Lübbe GmbH | Pumping device |
DE202008010872U1 (en) | 2008-08-14 | 2010-02-25 | Bran+Luebbe Gmbh | pump device |
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EP0919724A3 (en) | 2000-04-19 |
IT1297087B1 (en) | 1999-08-03 |
DE69830775T2 (en) | 2006-05-18 |
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