WO2006041494A1 - Joint pour compresseur a vis - Google Patents

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WO2006041494A1
WO2006041494A1 PCT/US2004/033421 US2004033421W WO2006041494A1 WO 2006041494 A1 WO2006041494 A1 WO 2006041494A1 US 2004033421 W US2004033421 W US 2004033421W WO 2006041494 A1 WO2006041494 A1 WO 2006041494A1
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rotor
compressor
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David M. Rockwell
Frederick L. Miller, Jr.
Yan Tang
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Carrier Corporation
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Priority to BRPI0419050-5A priority Critical patent/BRPI0419050A/pt
Priority to JP2007534556A priority patent/JP2008514865A/ja
Priority to CA002582129A priority patent/CA2582129A1/fr
Priority to PCT/US2004/033421 priority patent/WO2006041494A1/fr
Priority to EP04794696A priority patent/EP1800003A4/fr
Priority to US11/631,562 priority patent/US7802974B2/en
Publication of WO2006041494A1 publication Critical patent/WO2006041494A1/fr
Priority to HK08107055.9A priority patent/HK1116531A1/xx

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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C18/00—Rotary-piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids
    • F04C18/08—Rotary-piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing
    • F04C18/12—Rotary-piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type
    • F04C18/14—Rotary-piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons
    • F04C18/16—Rotary-piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons with helical teeth, e.g. chevron-shaped, screw type
    • F04C18/165—Rotary-piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons with helical teeth, e.g. chevron-shaped, screw type having more than two rotary pistons with parallel axes
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C27/00—Sealing arrangements in rotary-piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids
    • F04C27/008—Sealing arrangements in rotary-piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids for other than working fluid, i.e. the sealing arrangements are not between working chambers of the machine
    • F04C27/009—Shaft sealings specially adapted for pumps
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C29/00—Component parts, details or accessories of pumps or pumping installations, not provided for in groups F04C18/00 - F04C28/00
    • F04C29/04—Heating; Cooling; Heat insulation
    • F04C29/042—Heating; Cooling; Heat insulation by injecting a fluid

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  • the invention relates to compressors. More particularly, the invention relates to sealing of economized screw-type compressors.
  • Screw type compressors are commonly used in air conditioning and refrigeration applications. In such a compressor, intermeshed male and female lobed rotors or screws are rotated about their axes to pump the working fluid
  • the male rotor is coaxial with an electric driving motor and is supported by bearings on inlet and outlet sides of its lobed working portion. There may be multiple female rotors engaged to a given male rotor or vice versa.
  • the refrigerant When one of the interlobe spaces is exposed to an inlet port, the refrigerant enters the space essentially at suction pressure. As the rotors continues to rotate, at some point during the rotation the space is no longer in communication with the inlet port and the flow of refrigerant to the space is cut off. After the inlet port is closed, the refrigerant is compressed as the rotors continue to rotate. At some point during the rotation, each space intersects the associated outlet port and the closed compression process terminates.
  • the inlet port and the outlet port may each be radial, axial, or a hybrid combination of an axial port and a radial port.
  • the suction port for a screw compressor can be axial, radial or a combination of both.
  • the radial suction port cutoff is defined by the bore surrounding the rotor.
  • the axial port is closed by the meshing of the screw rotors. Typical designs with both axial and radial suction ports require that the axial port be closed before or at the same time the radial port is closed.
  • the radial suction port needs to be closed off sooner.
  • the rotors would not mesh in time to close off the axial suction port. It would be desirable to close off the axial suction port to allow for a shorter radial suction port.
  • this would only close off a portion of the axial suction port to avoid having the economizer flow leak back to suction and to still allow for an axial suction flow component .
  • One aspect of the invention is a compressor having a housing assembly containing male and female rotors.
  • the male rotor has a screw-type male body portion extending from a first end to a second end and held within the housing assembly for rotation about a first rotor axis.
  • the female rotor has a screw-type female body portion enmeshed with the male body portion.
  • the female body portion extends from a first end to a second end and is held within the housing assembly for rotation about a second rotor axis.
  • An end seal has a first surface engaging the female rotor body portion first end and being asymmetric around the second axis.
  • the end seal may include a full-annulus base portion encircling the second rotor axis and a second portion bearing the first surface.
  • the first surface may be essentially an annular segment of an extent between 30° and 270°.
  • the first surface may be of only partial circumferential extent.
  • the first surface may seal 1/12 to 3/4 of a lobe-swept area of said female body portion first end.
  • the first surface may seal 1/4 to 1/2 of the lobe-swept area.
  • a motor may be coupled to the male rotor to drive the male rotor at least in a first direction about the first rotor axis.
  • the male rotor and motor may be coaxial.
  • the motor may be an electric motor having a rotor and a stator and the male rotor may have a shaft portion extending into and secured to the motor's rotor.
  • the end seal may be essentially unitarily formed of steel . A number of threaded fasteners may secure the end seal to the housing assembly.
  • FIG. 1 Another aspect of the invention involves a compressor having a housing assembly, enmeshed male and female rotors, and suction and discharge plenums.
  • the male and female rotor body portions may cooperate with the housing to define at least a first compression path between the suction plenum and the discharge plenum.
  • An economizer port is at an intermediate location along the first compression path.
  • the compressor includes means for resisting leakage from the economizer port to the suction plenum while still permitting an axial flow component from the suction plenum.
  • the means may comprise a rotor end seal with a circumferentially non-constant rotor engagement face.
  • the rotor end seal may include a full-annulus base portion encircling the second rotor axis and a second portion bearing the rotor engagement face.
  • the rotor engagement face may be essentially an annular segment of an extent between 30° and 270°.
  • the means may comprise a rotor end seal with a rotor engagement face of only partial circumferential extent.
  • a second female rotor may have a screw-type female lobed body portion and may mesh with the male lobed body portion.
  • Another aspect of the invention involves a method for remanufacturing a compressor or engineering or reengineering a configuration of such compressor from a baseline condition to a second condition.
  • the method includes providing an axial seal for sealing with a female rotor first end.
  • the axial seal has a sealing surface asymmetric around a female rotor axis.
  • the axial seal either replaces a baseline seal having a sealing surface symmetric around such axis or is located where there is no axial seal in the baseline condition.
  • the compressor may include an economizer port.
  • FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a compressor according to principles of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a suction plenum area of the compressor of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the compressor of FIG. 1 taken along line 3-3.
  • FIG. 4 is a view of the projected housing interior surface along rotors of the compressor of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 5 is a view of a female rotor suction seal of the compressor of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 1 shows a compressor 20 having a housing assembly 22 containing a motor 24 driving rotors 26, 27, and 28 having respective central longitudinal axes 500, 501, and 502.
  • the male rotor 26 is centrally positioned within the compressor and has a male lobed body or working portion 30 extending between a first end 31 and a second end 32.
  • the working portion 30 is enmeshed with female lobed body or working portions 33 and 34 of each female rotor 27 and 28.
  • the working portions 33 and 34 have respective first ends 35 and 36 and second ends 37 and 38.
  • Each rotor includes shaft portions (e.g., stubs 39, 40, 41, and 42, 43, 44 unitarily formed with the associated working portion) extending from the first and second ends of the associated working portion.
  • shaft portions e.g., stubs 39, 40, 41, and 42, 43, 44 unitarily formed with the associated working portion.
  • Each of these shaft stubs is mounted to the housing by one or more bearing assemblies 50 for rotation about the associated rotor axis.
  • the motor 24 is an electric motor having a rotor and a stator.
  • a portion of the first shaft stub 39 of the male rotor 26 extends within the stator and is secured thereto so as to permit the motor 24 to drive the male rotor 26 about the axis 500.
  • the male rotor drives the female rotors in an opposite second direction about their axes 501 and 502.
  • FIG. 1 Surfaces of the housing combine with the enmeshed rotor bodies to define inlet and outlet ports to two pairs of compression pockets compressing and driving refrigerant from a suction (inlet) plenum 60 to a discharge (outlet) plenum 62.
  • a first pair of male and female compression pockets is formed by the housing, male rotor, and the first female rotor.
  • a second pair of male and female compression pockets is formed by the housing, male rotor and the second female rotor. In each pair, one such pocket is located between a pair of adjacent lobes of each rotor associated rotor.
  • the ports may be radial, axial, or a hybrid of the two.
  • the exemplary inlet ports 66 and 67 are hybrid having a radial component admitting a radial inlet flow component 510 and an axial component emitting an axial inlet flow component 512 (FIG. 2) .
  • FIG. 3 shows the housing interior surface as including circular cylindrical portions 70, 71, and 72 in close facing/sealing relationship with the apexes of the lobes of the respective working portions 30, 33, and 34.
  • the portions 70 and 71 meet at a pair of opposed mesh zones 74 and the portions 70 and 72 meet at a pair of opposed mesh zones 75.
  • the housing interior surface further includes portions cooperating to define the suction and discharge ports, with portion 78 for the port 66 and 79 for the port 67 shown.
  • the compressor further includes economizer ports 80 positioned at an intermediate stage of the compression process (e.g., the first half of the process such that the economizer port is exposed to the compression pocket (s) only after the start of the compression has occurred and is closed off from such pocket (s) before 1/2 of the compression has occurred) .
  • economizer ports 80 positioned at an intermediate stage of the compression process (e.g., the first half of the process such that the economizer port is exposed to the compression pocket (s) only after the start of the compression has occurred and is closed off from such pocket (s) before 1/2 of the compression has occurred) .
  • FIG. 4 shows a projection of the interior surface portions 70, 71, and 72 atop the rotor lobes. These surfaces are shown as having first and second edges 90 and 91 along the associated male and female rotors for each suction port and first and second edges 92 and 93 along the associated male and female rotors for each discharge port .
  • a perimeter 94 defines a closed aperture associated with each economizer port 80 and penetrating the surface 70.
  • FIG. 4 shows this leakage path 98 as extending to intact circumferential portions 100 of the adjacent surface 70 and 102 or 104 of the adjacent surface 71 or 72.
  • FIG. 5 shows a female rotor suction seal 120.
  • the exemplary seal 120 is essentially unitarily formed of a metal alloy (e.g., steel) .
  • the exemplary seal 120 has a base or mounting portion 122 formed as a full annulus ring of rectangular radial section having an upstream end or face 124 and a downstream end or face 126 and having inboard and outboard surfaces 128 and 130 therebetween.
  • a sealing portion 140 extends from the downstream face 126 and is formed having a trunk 142 and a main body 144.
  • both the trunk and the main body are annular segments.
  • the trunk extends between first and second circumferential ends 146 and 148 and the main body extends between first and second circumferential ends 150 and 152.
  • trunk inboard and outboard surfaces are formed as continuation of the base inboard and outboard surfaces.
  • the main body inboard and outboard surfaces 154 and 156 project respectively inward and outward relative to the base portion inboard and outboard surfaces.
  • the main body 144 has a downstream surface 158.
  • the main body downstream surface 158 has a radial and circumferential extent sufficient to seal the interlobe spaces along the associated leakage path 98 (e.g., along the portions 102; 104 and along a remaining lobe pocket area in communication with those portions 102; 104 (e.g., as shown in FIG. 4) .
  • the exemplary main body outboard surface 156 is at essentially equal radius to the lobes of the associated female rotor and the inboard surface 154 is in close radial position to the adjacent shaft stub (e.g., preferably at least at or below the radius of the interlobe troughs) .
  • the seal 120 has longitudinal apertures 160 for accommodating fasteners 162 (e.g., screws) to secure the seal within the housing.
  • FIG. 2 shows the seal base portion 122 mounted in a seal compartment 170 with the upstream face 124 at least partially abutting a base face 172 of a compartment and the outboard surface 128 at least partially abutting a sidewall surface 174 of the compartment.
  • the downstream face 158 of the main body 144 is in close facing or lubricated contacting relation with the rotor body end face 35 and the overlapping portion of the male rotor body face 31.

Abstract

Un compresseur comprend un rotor mâle (26) possédant une partie à vis (30) qui fait saillie depuis une première extrémité (31) en direction d'une deuxième extrémité (32), placée dans un ensemble de boîtier de manière à effectuer des rotations autour d'un premier axe de rotor (500). Un rotor femelle (27, 28) comprend une partie de corps femelle de type à vis (33, 34) qui s'engrène avec la partie de corps mâle et fait saillie depuis une première extrémité (35, 36) en direction d'une deuxième extrémité (37, 38), placée dans l'ensemble de boîtier de manière à effectuer des rotations autour d'un deuxième axe de rotor (501, 502). Un joint d'extrémité (120) possède une première surface (126) qui s'engrène avec la partie de corps femelle et qui est asymétrique par rapport au deuxième axe.
PCT/US2004/033421 2004-09-30 2004-10-06 Joint pour compresseur a vis WO2006041494A1 (fr)

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BRPI0419050-5A BRPI0419050A (pt) 2004-09-30 2004-10-06 compressor, método para remanufaturar compressor ou engenheirar ou reengenheirar configuração de tal compressor
JP2007534556A JP2008514865A (ja) 2004-09-30 2004-10-06 スクリュー圧縮機シール
CA002582129A CA2582129A1 (fr) 2004-09-30 2004-10-06 Joint pour compresseur a vis
PCT/US2004/033421 WO2006041494A1 (fr) 2004-09-30 2004-10-06 Joint pour compresseur a vis
EP04794696A EP1800003A4 (fr) 2004-09-30 2004-10-06 Joint pour compresseur a vis
US11/631,562 US7802974B2 (en) 2004-09-30 2004-10-06 Screw compressor having asymmetric seal around rotor axis
HK08107055.9A HK1116531A1 (en) 2004-09-30 2008-06-25 Screw compressor seal

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