US20090191083A1 - Rotary blower with isothermal air jacket - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to the field of mechanical vacuum pumps and blowers used in industrial and municipal applications, and more particularly relates to double rotor multi-lobe type blowers commonly known as positive displacement rotary blowers or simply the Roots blowers, and more specifically relates to an isothermal air jacket for equalizing the casing temperature distribution of a rotary blower.
- Rotary blowers are widely used in industrial and municipal applications such as for loading a bulk truck by pneumatic conveying bulk materials, for cleaning municipal sewer lines by vacuum suction or for generating air bubbles in an aeration tank of a modern waste water treatment plant. They are desired because of their unique performance characteristics inherent from the rotary positive displacement nature: they deliver an almost constant air flow at varying pressure levels. The ability of varying pressure at constant flow makes rotary blowers the ideal tools for pneumatic conveying applications where material clogging can be quickly cleared with increasing the discharge pressure or suction vacuum while maintaining the transfer capability.
- Rotary blowers are typically operated with a discharge pressure range between 5 to 20 psig, or an inlet vacuum range between 5 to 17′′ Hg in a single stage compression.
- the high limit is equivalent to a compression ratio about 2.5:1, defined as a ratio of the absolute discharge pressure over the absolute inlet pressure. Compression ratio is often preferred because it correlates to the temperature ratio, which stays the same no matter whether it is a pressure or a vacuum application.
- the temperature rise from blower inlet to outlet could be as high as 300-400 F depending on efficiency and internal clearances.
- This temperature difference causes great thermal distortion for the rotary blower main casing, often called the cylinder, resulting in a “banana shape” with the outlet side (hot side) bowing towards the inlet side (cool side), as illustrated in FIG. 6 .
- the cylinder is often the structure support for bearing housings located on its sides, the precision bearing alignment in a cold state is shifted in a hot condition, causing potential high vibrations, noises and short bearing life.
- heat associated with the high discharge temperature also conducts to the bearing housings on both sides, raising temperature of bearing, oil and gears as much as 200-250 F and is another major source for vibration, noises and reliability problems.
- U.S. Pat. No. 6,817,844 disclosed a method for cooling the oil reservoir of a blower, as illustrated in FIG. 3 using the shaft-mounted fans. It is effective to reduce the bearing and oil temperature as much as 100 F, allowing one stage compression ratio to reach 3:1 (equivalent to 30 psig for pressure or 20′′ Hg for vacuum) though the discharge air temperature is as high as 450 F. Moreover, it addresses the thermal distortion problem by applying wearable seals on rotor ends and rotor intermeshing surfaces, as illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 5 , so that any potential contact due to heat distortion would be “worn away” while not causing blower seizure and total failure.
- the present invention is directed to a rotary blower that utilizes an isothermal air jacket with flow passages arranged on the outer surface of the blower, directing cooling flow in a general direction from the bearing housing to the cylinder so that whole casing temperature tends to be more uniform.
- Integral fans mounted on rotors own shafts provide the air source as part of the isothermal air jacket.
- FIG. 1 is an illustrative partial cross-sectional front view of a typical arrangement of a conventional rotary blower without any external cooling and internal sealing mechanism;
- FIG. 2 (PRIOR ART) is an illustrative partial cross-sectional end view of the typical arrangement of a conventional rotary blower without any external cooling and internal sealing mechanism;
- FIG. 3 is an illustrative partial cross-sectional front view of a typical arrangement of a conventional rotary blower with external forced cooling by integral fans;
- FIG. 4 (PRIOR ART) is an illustrative prospective view of a typical rotor arrangement of a conventional rotary blower with wearable seal devices applied to rotor ends;
- FIG. 5 is an illustrative partial cross-sectional end view of a typical rotor arrangement of a conventional rotary blower with wearable seal devices applied to rotor intermeshing profile;
- FIG. 6 is an illustrative partial cross-sectional top view of a typical rotor arrangement of a conventional rotary blower with the “banana shaped” thermal distortion under hot condition;
- FIG. 7 is a cross-section front view of a preferred embodiment of the isothermal air jacket enclosure of the present invention showing air flow from outlet port to inlet port.
- FIG. 8 is a cross-section side view of a preferred embodiment of the isothermal air jacket enclosure of the present invention showing air flow from outlet port to inlet port.
- FIG. 9 is a cross-section side view of an alternative embodiment of the isothermal air jacket enclosure of the present invention showing air flow from inlet port to outlet port.
- the present invention rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket includes an inner enclosed casing having a flow suction port and a flow discharge port and an internal bearing support structure, and an outer isothermal air jacket.
- the isothermal air jacket is shaped to surround the blower outer body, but is oversized to provide adequate flow passages from a fan inlet opening near the bearing housing to flow over most of the blower outer casing surfaces.
- the present invention rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket also includes two parallel multi-lobe rotors mounted on two parallel rotor shafts respectively, where the rotor shafts are supported by an internal bearing support structure of the inner casing and interconnected through a set of timing gears to rotate the rotors in synchronization for propelling flow from the suction port to the discharge port.
- Cooling fans are mounted on rotor own shafts at locations adjacent to the inlet openings of the air jacket for circulating flow through flow channels between the outer cover and the blower outer skin with a general direction from the oil reservoir to the outlet port and then to the inlet port for the final exit.
- the isothermal air jacket of the present invention is an apparatus constructed to engage in contact with a rotary blower so that it could cool the blower oil reservior and its outlet port casing and heat the inlet port casing at the same time.
- the present invention rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket is capable of delivering the desired pressure with lower vibration, noise and less leakage than conventional rotary blowers, so that they can operate more reliably, quietly efficiently and has a longer bearing life.
- the rotary blower 10 has two parallel rotors 12 mounted on rotor shafts 14 and 16 respectively, where the rotor shaft 14 is driven by an external rotational driving mechanism (not shown) and through a set of timing gears 18 rotate the rotors 12 in synchronization without touching each other for propelling the flow from a suction port 36 to a discharge port 38 of the blower 10 .
- the rotary blower 10 also has an enclosed casing 20 , wherein the rotor shafts 14 and 16 are mounted on an internal bearing support structure 22 with bearings 24 and seals 26 .
- the casing structure further includes a flow passage 53 as an isothermal air jacket as indicated by the arrows for cooling/heating flow direction in FIGS. 7 to 8 .
- the arrows show direction of the internal flow as propelled by the rotor 12 from the suction port 36 to the discharge port 38 of the blower 10 .
- an isothermal air jacket apparatus is surrounding the rotary blower 10 of the present invention, and its cross-section is illustrated in FIG. 7 to 8 .
- an isothermal air jacket apparatus 50 is comprised of a fan 40 , an isothermal flow passage 53 formed between an outer cover 28 and the inner casing 20 , and an exit 58 .
- the fan 40 could be employed on one side or on both sides of the blower to provide positive cooling flow for the blower 10 .
- the fan is mounted on the extended shaft 14 for bringing in air from atmosphere, which is in turn guided by the flow passage 53 towards the outlet port 38 , then the inlet port 36 , and finally exiting at an air jacket opening 58 , as shown by the arrows in FIGS. 7 to 8 .
- the theory of operation underlying the isothermal air jacket apparatus 50 of the present invention is as follows. With the fan 40 generating an air flow to cool the hot outer surface of the oil reservoir and hot surface of the outlet port 38 , the raised temperature of air flow is then directed to heat the cold surface of the inlet port 36 , hence tend to equalize temperature differences between the inlet and outlet ports. This will lead to less thermal distortion of the cylinder 20 , which in turn will decrease the internal end clearance and tip clearance, and at the same time increase life expectancy of the bearing 24 and the seal 26 and improve the blower 10 reliability.
- FIG. 9 shows a typical arrangement of another preferred embodiment of the rotary blower 10 with an isothermal air jacket apparatus 60 .
- the cooling fan is still mounted on the extended shaft 14 for bringing in air from atmosphere, which is in turn guided by the flow passage 53 formed between the outer cover 28 and the inner casing 20 .
- the outlet port 38 it is guided to the inlet port 36 first and then directed along the semi-annual passage 53 to cool the outlet port 38 , as shown by arrows in FIG. 9 .
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A rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket having multiple interconnected and synchronized parallel multi-lobe rotors with the same number of lobes for propelling flow from a suction port to a discharge port of an inner casing without internal compression. The isothermal air jacket is shaped to surround the blower outer body, but is oversized to provide adequate flow spaces with outer skin of the blower to enable an effective cooling of the outlet casing and an effective heating of the inlet casing so that the whole casing temperature will tend to be more uniform and isothermal, resulting in a blower with less vibration, lower noise and longer blower life.
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- 1. Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates generally to the field of mechanical vacuum pumps and blowers used in industrial and municipal applications, and more particularly relates to double rotor multi-lobe type blowers commonly known as positive displacement rotary blowers or simply the Roots blowers, and more specifically relates to an isothermal air jacket for equalizing the casing temperature distribution of a rotary blower.
- 2. Description of the Prior Art
- Rotary blowers are widely used in industrial and municipal applications such as for loading a bulk truck by pneumatic conveying bulk materials, for cleaning municipal sewer lines by vacuum suction or for generating air bubbles in an aeration tank of a modern waste water treatment plant. They are desired because of their unique performance characteristics inherent from the rotary positive displacement nature: they deliver an almost constant air flow at varying pressure levels. The ability of varying pressure at constant flow makes rotary blowers the ideal tools for pneumatic conveying applications where material clogging can be quickly cleared with increasing the discharge pressure or suction vacuum while maintaining the transfer capability.
- Rotary blowers are typically operated with a discharge pressure range between 5 to 20 psig, or an inlet vacuum range between 5 to 17″ Hg in a single stage compression. The high limit is equivalent to a compression ratio about 2.5:1, defined as a ratio of the absolute discharge pressure over the absolute inlet pressure. Compression ratio is often preferred because it correlates to the temperature ratio, which stays the same no matter whether it is a pressure or a vacuum application.
- Under this compression ratio, the temperature rise from blower inlet to outlet could be as high as 300-400 F depending on efficiency and internal clearances. This temperature difference causes great thermal distortion for the rotary blower main casing, often called the cylinder, resulting in a “banana shape” with the outlet side (hot side) bowing towards the inlet side (cool side), as illustrated in
FIG. 6 . Since the cylinder is often the structure support for bearing housings located on its sides, the precision bearing alignment in a cold state is shifted in a hot condition, causing potential high vibrations, noises and short bearing life. In addition, heat associated with the high discharge temperature also conducts to the bearing housings on both sides, raising temperature of bearing, oil and gears as much as 200-250 F and is another major source for vibration, noises and reliability problems. - However, while the cylinder is “banana shaped” in hot condition, the rotors remain its original straight shape and uniform temperature, because they continuously experience the cyclic cool and hot air temperature during each rotation. This condition creates an uneven internal clearance at rotor tips and rotor ends between rotor and casing. Some clearance is increased from the cold state, say near discharge side, causing more internal leakage while other clearance is decreased, posing potential rubbing and seizure failures. The later scenario often forces the design clearances set to be larger than necessary to avoid any potential contact. The result is more leakage flow and the recycled hot leakage gas raises the inlet temperature further more, further increases the discharge temperature, which is already high due to higher compression ratio.
- Various approaches have been developed to address the higher temperature and associated thermal distortion problems at high compression ratio. U.S. Pat. No. 6,817,844 disclosed a method for cooling the oil reservoir of a blower, as illustrated in
FIG. 3 using the shaft-mounted fans. It is effective to reduce the bearing and oil temperature as much as 100 F, allowing one stage compression ratio to reach 3:1 (equivalent to 30 psig for pressure or 20″ Hg for vacuum) though the discharge air temperature is as high as 450 F. Moreover, it addresses the thermal distortion problem by applying wearable seals on rotor ends and rotor intermeshing surfaces, as illustrated inFIGS. 4 and 5 , so that any potential contact due to heat distortion would be “worn away” while not causing blower seizure and total failure. - However, it fails to correct the root cause of the problem: the high temperature difference between inlet port and outlet port of the cylinder, which remains the “banana shaped”. This failure could still lead to more internal leakage, high vibration and noise, shortened bearing life at the highest pressure ratio and create reliability problems.
- Accordingly, it is always desirable to provide a new design and construction of rotary blowers that can effectively deliver the desired pressure with lower vibration, noise and less leakage than conventional rotary blowers, so that they can operate more reliably, quietly, efficiently and has a longer life.
- The present invention is directed to a rotary blower that utilizes an isothermal air jacket with flow passages arranged on the outer surface of the blower, directing cooling flow in a general direction from the bearing housing to the cylinder so that whole casing temperature tends to be more uniform. Integral fans mounted on rotors own shafts provide the air source as part of the isothermal air jacket.
- It is an object of the present invention to provide a new and unique design and construction of a rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket to effectively reduce the temperature difference and thermal distortion between the casing inlet port and outlet port.
- It is also an object of the present invention to provide a new and unique design and construction of a rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket that tends to have a more uniform clearance distribution and smaller internal clearances to increase the blower efficiency.
- It is also an object of the present invention to provide a new and unique design and construction of a rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket to have less vibration, lower noise and longer blower life.
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FIG. 1 (PRIOR ART) is an illustrative partial cross-sectional front view of a typical arrangement of a conventional rotary blower without any external cooling and internal sealing mechanism; -
FIG. 2 (PRIOR ART) is an illustrative partial cross-sectional end view of the typical arrangement of a conventional rotary blower without any external cooling and internal sealing mechanism; -
FIG. 3 (PRIOR ART) is an illustrative partial cross-sectional front view of a typical arrangement of a conventional rotary blower with external forced cooling by integral fans; -
FIG. 4 (PRIOR ART) is an illustrative prospective view of a typical rotor arrangement of a conventional rotary blower with wearable seal devices applied to rotor ends; -
FIG. 5 (PRIOR ART) is an illustrative partial cross-sectional end view of a typical rotor arrangement of a conventional rotary blower with wearable seal devices applied to rotor intermeshing profile; -
FIG. 6 is an illustrative partial cross-sectional top view of a typical rotor arrangement of a conventional rotary blower with the “banana shaped” thermal distortion under hot condition; -
FIG. 7 is a cross-section front view of a preferred embodiment of the isothermal air jacket enclosure of the present invention showing air flow from outlet port to inlet port. -
FIG. 8 is a cross-section side view of a preferred embodiment of the isothermal air jacket enclosure of the present invention showing air flow from outlet port to inlet port. -
FIG. 9 is a cross-section side view of an alternative embodiment of the isothermal air jacket enclosure of the present invention showing air flow from inlet port to outlet port. - Although specific embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings, it should be understood that such embodiments are by way of example only and merely illustrative of but a small number of the many possible specific embodiments which can represent applications of the principles of the present invention. Various changes and modifications obvious to one skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains are deemed to be within the spirit, scope and contemplation of the present invention as further defined in the appended claims.
- As a brief introduction, the present invention rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket includes an inner enclosed casing having a flow suction port and a flow discharge port and an internal bearing support structure, and an outer isothermal air jacket. The isothermal air jacket is shaped to surround the blower outer body, but is oversized to provide adequate flow passages from a fan inlet opening near the bearing housing to flow over most of the blower outer casing surfaces.
- The present invention rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket also includes two parallel multi-lobe rotors mounted on two parallel rotor shafts respectively, where the rotor shafts are supported by an internal bearing support structure of the inner casing and interconnected through a set of timing gears to rotate the rotors in synchronization for propelling flow from the suction port to the discharge port. Cooling fans are mounted on rotor own shafts at locations adjacent to the inlet openings of the air jacket for circulating flow through flow channels between the outer cover and the blower outer skin with a general direction from the oil reservoir to the outlet port and then to the inlet port for the final exit.
- It is therefore an object of the present invention to teach the construction of an isothermal air jacket for reducing the temperature difference between the inlet port and outlet port. More specifically, the isothermal air jacket of the present invention is an apparatus constructed to engage in contact with a rotary blower so that it could cool the blower oil reservior and its outlet port casing and heat the inlet port casing at the same time. The present invention rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket is capable of delivering the desired pressure with lower vibration, noise and less leakage than conventional rotary blowers, so that they can operate more reliably, quietly efficiently and has a longer bearing life.
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FIGS. 7 to 8 , there is shown a typical arrangement of a preferred embodiment of arotary blower 10 with an isothermalair jacket apparatus 50. Typically, therotary blower 10 has twoparallel rotors 12 mounted onrotor shafts rotor shaft 14 is driven by an external rotational driving mechanism (not shown) and through a set oftiming gears 18 rotate therotors 12 in synchronization without touching each other for propelling the flow from asuction port 36 to adischarge port 38 of theblower 10. Therotary blower 10 also has an enclosedcasing 20, wherein therotor shafts bearing support structure 22 withbearings 24 andseals 26. The casing structure further includes aflow passage 53 as an isothermal air jacket as indicated by the arrows for cooling/heating flow direction inFIGS. 7 to 8 . InFIG. 8 , the arrows show direction of the internal flow as propelled by therotor 12 from thesuction port 36 to thedischarge port 38 of theblower 10. - As an important novel and unique feature of the present invention, an isothermal air jacket apparatus is surrounding the
rotary blower 10 of the present invention, and its cross-section is illustrated inFIG. 7 to 8 . In the embodiment illustrated, an isothermalair jacket apparatus 50 is comprised of afan 40, anisothermal flow passage 53 formed between anouter cover 28 and theinner casing 20, and anexit 58. Thefan 40 could be employed on one side or on both sides of the blower to provide positive cooling flow for theblower 10. The fan is mounted on the extendedshaft 14 for bringing in air from atmosphere, which is in turn guided by theflow passage 53 towards theoutlet port 38, then theinlet port 36, and finally exiting at an air jacket opening 58, as shown by the arrows inFIGS. 7 to 8 . - When the
rotary blower 10 is equipped by the isothermalair jacket apparatus 50 of the present invention, there exists both a reduction in temperature differences of thecylinder 20 between theinlet port 36 and theoutlet port 38 as well as a reduction in temperature of the mechanical components such as thebearings 24 and theseals 26. - The theory of operation underlying the isothermal
air jacket apparatus 50 of the present invention is as follows. With thefan 40 generating an air flow to cool the hot outer surface of the oil reservoir and hot surface of theoutlet port 38, the raised temperature of air flow is then directed to heat the cold surface of theinlet port 36, hence tend to equalize temperature differences between the inlet and outlet ports. This will lead to less thermal distortion of thecylinder 20, which in turn will decrease the internal end clearance and tip clearance, and at the same time increase life expectancy of thebearing 24 and theseal 26 and improve theblower 10 reliability. -
FIG. 9 shows a typical arrangement of another preferred embodiment of therotary blower 10 with an isothermalair jacket apparatus 60. In this embodiment, the cooling fan is still mounted on theextended shaft 14 for bringing in air from atmosphere, which is in turn guided by theflow passage 53 formed between theouter cover 28 and theinner casing 20. Instead of being directed to theoutlet port 38, it is guided to theinlet port 36 first and then directed along thesemi-annual passage 53 to cool theoutlet port 38, as shown by arrows inFIG. 9 . - It is apparent that there has been provided in accordance with the present invention a rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket for effectively reducing the high temperature differences caused by high compression ratio in a rotary blower. While the present invention has been described in context of the specific embodiments thereof, other alternatives, modifications, and variations will become apparent to those skilled in the art having read the foregoing description. Accordingly, it is intended to embrace those alternatives, modifications, and variations as fall within the broad scope of the appended claims.
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1. A rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket apparatus, comprising:
a. a housing structure having a flow suction port and a flow discharge port and internal flow passage there-between, and a flow passage enclosing the main casing;
b. two parallel multi-lobe rotors having the same number of lobes and rotatably mounted on two parallel rotor shafts respectively inside said inner casing and interconnected through a set of timing gears to rotate in synchronization for propelling flow from said suction port to said discharge port;
c. an isothermal air jacket apparatus comprising a fan mounted on rotor own shaft and a flow passage for circulating cooling air over the outer surfaces of said main casing;
d. whereby said rotary blower is capable of delivering the desired pressure with lower vibration, noise and less leakage than conventional rotary blowers, so that they can operate more reliably, efficiently and has a longer life.
2. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said rotors are of twisted shape.
3. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said cylinder has a feedback channels for noise reduction.
4. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said rotors have interlobe profile seals and end seals.
5. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said cylinder has induction channels near said outlet port.
6. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said cylinder has an outer noise abatement jacket for noise reduction.
7. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said cylinder is made of material of aluminum or copper alloy with high heat conductivity.
8. A rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket apparatus, comprising:
a. a housing structure having a flow suction port and a flow discharge port and internal flow passage there-between, and a flow passage enclosing the main casing;
b. two parallel multi-lobe rotors having the same number of lobes and rotatably mounted on two parallel rotor shafts respectively inside said inner casing and interconnected through a set of timing gears to rotate in synchronization for propelling flow from said suction port to said discharge port;
c. an isothermal air jacket apparatus comprising a cooling fan mounted on rotor own shaft and a flow passage for circulating cooling air from said outlet port to said inlet port;
d. whereby said rotary blower is capable of delivering the desired pressure with lower vibration, noise and less leakage than conventional rotary blowers, so that they can operate more reliably, efficiently and has a longer life.
9. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said rotors are of twisted shape.
10. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said cylinder has a feedback channels for noise reduction.
11. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said rotors have interlobe profile seals and end seals.
12. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said cylinder has induction channels near said outlet port.
13. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said cylinder has an outer noise abatement jacket for noise reduction.
14. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said cylinder is made of material of aluminum or copper alloy with high heat conductivity.
15. A rotary blower with an isothermal air jacket apparatus, comprising:
a. a housing structure having a flow suction port and a flow discharge port and internal flow passage there-between, and a flow passage enclosing the main casing;
b. two parallel multi-lobe rotors having the same number of lobes and rotatably mounted on two parallel rotor shafts respectively inside said inner casing and interconnected through a set of timing gears to rotate in synchronization for propelling flow from said suction port to said discharge port;
c. an isothermal air jacket apparatus comprising a fan mounted on rotor own shaft and a flow passage for circulating cooling air from said inlet port to said outlet port;
d. whereby said rotary blower is capable of delivering the desired pressure with lower vibration, noise and less leakage than conventional rotary blowers, so that they can operate more reliably, efficiently and has a longer life.
16. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said rotors are of twisted shape.
17. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said cylinder has a feedback channels for noise reduction.
18. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said rotors have interlobe profile seals and end seals.
19. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said cylinder has induction channels near said outlet port.
20. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said cylinder has an outer noise abatement jacket for noise reduction.
21. A rotary blower with isothermal air jacket apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said cylinder is made of material of aluminum or copper alloy with high heat conductivity.
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