Abstract:
In order to prevent working medium from accumulating in the compressor housing (2) of a piston compressor (1) in a simple manner by means of a sealing of the piston rod (7) in the form of sealing medium barrier supplied by a hydraulic unit (12), it is provided that a ventilator (32) and a sealing medium container (37), which is partially filled with sealing medium, are provided in the hydraulic unit (12), wherein the ventilator (32) suctions air from the free space of the sealing medium container (37), and the free space (45) in the sealing medium container (37) is connected via a line (15, 17) to the compressor housing (2), and an opening (16) is provided at the compressor housing (2) for connecting the interior of the compressor housing (2) to a purge gas reservoir (18).
Abstract:
A packing ring is disclosed for sealingly engaging a movable rod member within a stuffing box having an internal cavity. In an embodiment, the packing ring includes a carrier and a sealing ring mounted to the carrier. The sealing ring is configured to sealingly engage with an outer surface of the rod when the rod is disposed within the internal cavity. The carrier includes a radially outer surface that is configured to sealingly engage with an internal surface of the stuffing box. In addition, the carrier includes a radially inner surface that is proximate to an outer surface of the rod when the rod extends through the stuffing box. Further, the carrier includes a plurality of lubrication grooves each groove extending from the radially outer surface to the radially inner surface and configured to convey a lubricant flow between the radially outer surface and the radially inner surface.
Abstract:
A seal arrangement for use in a reciprocating piston compressor includes first and second seal rings (44,46) engaged along respective side surfaces, and first and second cover rings (40,42) disposed around the first and second seal rings (44,46) such that the outside diameters (0D5,0D6) of the first and second seal rings (44,46) engage the inside diameters (ID3,ID4) of the first and second cover rings (40,42), respectively. A support ring (36) is engaged with the first seal ring (44) and the first cover ring (40). A backup ring (38) is engaged with the second seal ring (46) and the second cover ring (42). In some embodiments, the first seal ring (44) has a width (W5) that is smaller than a width (W6) of the second seal ring (46). In other embodiments the second seal ring (146) has a circumferential groove (149) formed on an inside surface thereof, the groove (149) disposed directly adjacent the first seal ring (144). In further embodiments, the seal rings (44,46) are formed of PEEK with a nano-material additive.
Abstract:
An oilless reciprocating fluid machine has a piston mounted to a connecting rod by inserting a piston pin in a pin bore of a cylinder. The piston is reciprocally moved up and down in the cylinder with reciprocating of the connecting rod. A reinforcement plate is embedded in the top wall of the piston or attached on the lower surface of the top wall to increase strength of the piston. The reinforcement plate may be formed in various shapes.
Abstract:
A scraper device for a reciprocating compressor piston rod that comprises at least one scraper ring, provided with at least one lip which faces the surface of the said rod, and a box to contain the scraper ring and for centering on the rod, wherein this scraper ring is produced by means of mechanical processing of deformable plastics materials and wherein this container box is accommodated in support elements with radial play.
Abstract:
The gas compression/expansion apparatus comprises: a working section for compressing/expanding therein a working gas by pistons each connected with a rod; a drive section including sliders each connected at one end thereof with the rod and connected at one end thereof with a guide for guiding the slider, and a drive mechanism for reciprocating the sliders; and a separator for fluid dynamically separating the working section from the drive section, the separator permitting said rod to pass through said separator. The separator further includes an oil seal arrangement. Formed inside the separator is an intermediate chamber which allows the rod to pass there through. The inner radius of the intermediate chamber is greater than the radius of the rod plus the oil deposited on the rod. The guide includes a guide space formed such that the distance between the slider at its upper dead point and the wall of the separator facing the slider is larger than the thickness of the oil on the slider. The separator also includes an oil return passage for allowing the oil accumulated in the guide space to return to an oil sump. The oil seal arrangement may prevent the oil on the guide from coming into direct contact with the separator and prevent the oil on the rod from entering the working section.
Abstract:
The annular seal assembly and seal arrangements including the seal assembly disclosed are useful in high pressure pumps and compressors and the like that include a cylinder having annular grooves therein for receiving the seal arrangements and having a plunger reciprocating in the cylinder through the seal arrangements. The seal assembly includes segmented tangent and radial ring assemblies. Each of the segments in the tangent ring assembly includes tangentially disposed end surfaces that are arranged to sealingly and slidingly engage the adjacent tangentially disposed end surfaces. The radial ring assembly is constructed from a plurality of arcuate segments having an outer periphery sized to be closely fitted into a counterbore formed in one face of the tangent ring assembly. With the radial and tangential rings assembled, the forces exerted by the high pressure fluid on the tangent ring assembly are transferred to the radial ring assembly, providing better lubrication and longer seal life. The disclosed seal arrangements promote better operation and better seal life due to the distribution of the pressure load over several seals.
Abstract:
The improved packing rings described in detail hereinafter provide an integrally formed, internally located check valve for use in the lubrication systems compressors, pumps or the like. Specifically, and in the preferred form, two adjacent packing rings include face portions arranged in sealing engagement with at least one of the packing rings a lubricant passageway therein. An arcuate groove is formed in the face of one of the packing rings in communication with the lubricant passageway. One of the packing rings includes a pressure-responsive, integrally formed annular lip that encompasses the arcuate groove. The arrangement is such that a predetermined pressure in the lubricant groove moves the lip away from the adjacent packing ring permitting lubricant to pass out of the arcuate groove into the interior of the compressor. During the compression stroke of the compressor, the high pressure existing inside the compressor acts on the pressure responsive lip forcing it into tighter sealing engagement with the adjacent packing ring preventing the compressor pressure from entering the lubrication system.
Abstract:
An improved compressor with at least three stages and having at least one cylinder, wherein the improvement comprises that only one connecting rod is used for each cylinder and that the differential piston forms a guide piston for the high-pressure piston, wherein the high-pressure cylinder operates without an inlet valve and its outlet valve covers substantially the entire and face; the invention also comprises a multicylinder arrangement embodying these improvements.