US20170261004A1 - Centrifugal pressure booster and method for modifying or constructing a centrifugal pressure booster - Google Patents

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US20170261004A1
US20170261004A1 US15/528,558 US201515528558A US2017261004A1 US 20170261004 A1 US20170261004 A1 US 20170261004A1 US 201515528558 A US201515528558 A US 201515528558A US 2017261004 A1 US2017261004 A1 US 2017261004A1
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F04D13/0653Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven the motor being flooded
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F04D13/086Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven for submerged use the pump and drive motor are both submerged
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F04D25/0606Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven the electric motor being specially adapted for integration in the pump
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • H02GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
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    • HELECTRICITY
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  • the invention relates to centrifugal pumps and compressors, for convenience also termed pressure boosters in this document. More specifically, the invention relates to improved cooling of a pressure booster, which enhances the maximum power and speed and prolong the service life of the pressure booster.
  • Motors for pumps or compressors are normally liquid filled.
  • the friction in general follows a power of three of the velocity. The friction generates heat, restricting the maximum power rating and rotations per minute and shortening the service life of the pressure booster.
  • the objective of the present invention is to provide enhanced maximum power and speed and prolong the service life of a pressure booster. None of the publications mentioned above describes or illustrates an improved or alternative cooling in a centrifugal pressure booster as a means to meet said objective.
  • the invention meets the objective by providing a centrifugal pressure booster, for pressure boosting liquids, multiphase fluid or gas, the pressure booster comprising a liquid filled electric motor with a stator and a rotor, with a rotor stator gap between the rotor and stator, a pressure boosting part in the form of a pump or compressor operatively coupled to the rotor, and at least one housing, one fluid inlet and one fluid outlet.
  • the pressure booster is distinctive in that it comprises a rotor stator gap coolant inlet pump, for enhancing the coolant flow through the rotor stator gap.
  • the rotor stator gap coolant inlet pump is a combined balancing ring and impeller, having outer diameter larger than the inner diameter of the rotor stator gap but smaller than the outer diameter of the rotor stator gap, said combined balancing ring and impeller has outlet for coolant directly into the rotor stator gap.
  • the outer impeller diameter can be larger than the outer diameter of the rotor stator gap, if a slightly larger diameter external cover or similar directs the flow into the rotor stator gap.
  • the impeller outer diameter can be smaller than the inner diameter of the rotor stator gap, if an external cover or similar directs the flow into the rotor stator gap, which can be a favourable embodiment if cavitation is a possible problem.
  • the balancing device and impeller is ring shaped.
  • a balancing device also called balance device, balance ring or balance disc, is used to minimize vibrations and any other possible effects by small misalignments on the shaft where it is attached, by fine tuning weight or extent of material around the rotational axis.
  • the invention also provides use of a rotor stator gap coolant inlet pump in a pressure booster, preferably a subsea pressure booster, for enhancing the coolant flow through a rotor stator gap of the pressure booster.
  • the invention provides balancing of the flow rate through the stator windings and the rotor-stator gap, which will have very different frictional characteristics and hence different pressure drops.
  • the invention ensures that at all relevant rotational speeds, both the stator windings and the rotor-stator gap have sufficient liquid coolant flow, providing enhanced maximum power and speed and prolonged service life of the pressure booster of the invention.
  • Said inlet pump rotates with the rotor, without disturbing the rotor stator gap flow by increasing the friction, thereby solving what is assumed to be a major problem with prior art devices with vanes in all of or at least in a significant length along the rotor stator gap.
  • a “rotor stator gap coolant inlet pump” in this context means vanes or blades or similar structural elements arranged at the motor stator gap inlet, as well as impellers with at least one blade, arranged not into the motor stator gap as seen in radial direction, but at the inlet thereof, just outside the gap. This means that the coolant flow exits directly from the outlet of said inlet pump into said gap inlet and said inlet pump is arranged adjacent to said gap, which is just besides the radial motor stator gap without any significant axial distance between, for enhancing the coolant flow through the rotor stator gap.
  • Axial means parallel to the rotor rotation axis
  • radial means radial to the rotor rotation axis.
  • an “impeller” it is in this context meant a device typically having a radial fluid displacement component upon rotation, as provided by having at least one blade or fluid conduit.
  • the fluid inlet of an impeller typically is nearer the rotation axis than the fluid outlet.
  • a “blade” or “vane” it is meant an axial fluid displacement component shaped as a blade or similar, as seen in the prior art publications, but for the present invention not arranged in the rotor stator gap.
  • the rotor stator gap coolant inlet pump may however comprise elements of any operative kind providing pumping effect when rotating.
  • the coolant of the motor of the pressure boosters of the invention is a liquid
  • the rotor stator gap has in substance smooth, even surfaces, without rotor blades as seen in prior art solutions
  • the pressure booster typically operates at high speed and power, such as 2000-6000 rpm (rotations per minute) and power counted in megawatts.
  • the blades or vanes are angled or skew in order to provide pumping effect upon rotation.
  • the blades are optimized with respect to shape and number for sufficient pumping effect at the intended operating conditions, such as a rotation speed of 6000 rpm.
  • the at least one blade is made with an angle to the tangential direction, so upon rotating the pump or impeller device, as attached to the rotor laminations or rotor shaft or both, a predictable coolant flow component parallel to the rotation axis is generated, enhancing coolant flow through the rotor stator gap.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a subsea pressure booster of the invention, with a combined balancing device and rotor stator gap circulation impeller.
  • FIG. 2 is an illustration of a detail of a subsea pressure booster of the invention.
  • the centrifugal subsea pressure booster of the invention can include any feature or step as here illustrated or described, in any operative combination, each such combination is an embodiment of the invention.
  • the method of the invention can include any feature or step as here illustrated or described, in any operative combination, each such combination is an embodiment of the invention.
  • the use of the invention can include any feature or step as here illustrated or described, in any operative combination, each such combination is an embodiment of the invention.

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