Centrifugal compressor and water chilling unit having the same

• US 10,280,942 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2014
• Issued: 05/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GREE Electric Appliances Incorporated of Zhuhai
• Original Assignee: GREE Electric Appliances Incorporated of Zhuhai
• Inventors: Jiang, Nan, Zhong, Ruixing, Jiang, Caiyun, Xie, Rong, Wang, Hongxing, Liu, Jianfei, Chen, Yuhui
• Primary Examiner(s): Kershteyn, Igor
• Assistant Examiner(s): Elliott, Topaz L.
• Application Number:
  US15/037,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20160273553A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,748 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 17/10 for compressing or evacuating
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/02 Units comprising pumps and their driving means
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/063 specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4206 especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/44 Fluid-guiding means, e.g. diffusers
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/441 especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/444 Bladed diffusers
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/5846 cooling by injection
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/664 by means of sound absorbing material
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/667 by influencing the flow pattern, e.g. suppression of turbulence
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2250/502 Outlet
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2260/96 Preventing, counteracting or reducing vibration or noise
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/52 Outlet
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/4031 as in toothed gearing
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 31/026 with compressor of rotary type

Abstract

The invention discloses a centrifugal compressor and a water chilling unit having the same. The centrifugal compressor includes an impeller (2), a diffuser (3), a volute (8) and an exhaust diffuser pipe (9), the diffuser (3) including a pressurization passage, air flowing through the impeller (2) entering an inlet of each pressurization passage, the volute (8) being configured to collect the air pressurized by the diffuser (3), the exhaust diffuser pipe being communicated with the volute, and an extending direction of the exhaust diffuser pipe inclining downwards with respect to a horizontal plane. The extending direction of the exhaust diffuser pipe communicated with the volute inclines downwards with respect to the horizontal plane, so that noise and airflow losses of high-temperature and high-pressure air in the exhaust diffuser pipe expelled from the centrifugal compressor due to bending of the pipe can be reduced, and the noise can be effectively reduced.

Claims

1. A centrifugal compressor, comprising:

an impeller (2);

a diffuser (3), the diffuser (3) comprising a pressurization passage (31), wherein air flows through the impeller (2) and enters an inlet of the pressurization passage (31);

a volute (8), configured to collect the air pressurized by the diffuser (3);

an exhaust diffuser pipe (9), fluidly connected with the volute (8), an extending direction of the exhaust diffuser pipe (9) inclining downwards with respect to a horizontal plane;

a gear box (5); and

a coolant passage (4) configured to import a coolant from the outside, wherein the coolant passage (4) comprises;

a liquid spraying hole (41) provided at an inlet end of the pressurization passage (31);

a first flow guide hole (42) provided in an interior of a side wall of the gear box (5) and fluidly connected with the liquid spraying hole (41); and

a second flow guide hole (43) configured to fluidly connect each of the plurality of liquid spraying holes (41) with the first flow guide hole (42).

2. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 1, wherein an angle between the extending direction of the exhaust diffuser pipe (9) and the horizontal plane is A, wherein 15°

≤

A≤

90°

.

3. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 2, further comprising:

a drive motor;

a spindle (6), mounted at the gear box (5), one end of the spindle (6) being connected with the impeller (2);

a first gear (7), mounted at the spindle (6);

a drive shaft, mounted at the gear box (5), the drive shaft being in drive connection with the drive motor;

a second gear, mounted at the drive shaft and meshing with the first gear (7); and

a lubricating system, lubricating oil of the lubricating system being contained in a lower cavity of the gear box (5).

4. A water chilling unit, comprising the centrifugal compressor according to claim 2.

5. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 1, wherein a liquid spraying direction of the liquid spraying hole (41) is perpendicular to a flowing direction of the air in the pressurization passage (31).

6. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 5, further comprising:

a drive motor;

a spindle (6), mounted at the gear box (5), one end of the spindle (6) being connected with the impeller (2);

a first gear (7), mounted at the spindle (6);

a drive shaft, mounted at the gear box (5), the drive shaft being in drive connection with the drive motor;

a second gear, mounted at the drive shaft and meshing with the first gear (7); and

a lubricating system, lubricating oil of the lubricating system being contained in a lower cavity of the gear box (5).

7. A water chilling unit, comprising the centrifugal compressor according to claim 5.

8. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 1, further comprising:

a drive motor;

a spindle (6), mounted at the gear box (5), one end of the spindle (6) being connected with the impeller (2);

a first gear (7), mounted at the spindle (6);

a drive shaft, mounted at the gear box (5), the drive shaft being in drive connection with the drive motor;

a second gear, mounted at the drive shaft and meshing with the first gear (7); and

a lubricating system, lubricating oil of the lubricating system being contained in a lower cavity of the gear box (5).

9. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 8, further comprising a three-oil-wedge bearing configured to mount the spindle (6) and/or the drive shaft at the gear box (5).

10. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 8, wherein the diffuser (3) further comprises a first partition plate (32) and a second partition plate (33) parallel to the first partition plate (32), the first partition plate (32) comprising an annular base plate abutting against an outer side of the side wall of the gear box (5) and a plurality of flow guide plates vertically provided on a surface, opposites to the side wall of the gear box (5), of the base plate, the flow guide plates being uniformly provided in a circumferential direction of the base plate, and every two adjacent flow guide plates forming a corresponding pressurization passage (31);

and the coolant passage (4) comprises a plurality of liquid spraying holes (41) corresponding to a plurality of pressurization passages (31), each pressurization passage (31) corresponding to at least one liquid spraying hole (41).

11. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 10, wherein the second flow guide hole (43) comprising a first hole-section (431) extending from an interior of the base plate to the side wall of the gear box (5) and second hole-sections (432) configured to fluidly connect the each of the plurality of liquid spraying holes (41) with the first hole-section (431);

and the coolant passage (4) further comprises an elongated slot which is provided at the outer side of the side wall of the gear box (5) or which is provided at the surface, abutting against the outer side of the side wall of the gear box (5), of the first partition plate (32) and configured to fluidly connect the second hole-sections (432), the elongated slot being fluidly connected with the first flow guide hole (42).

12. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 8, wherein at least some of the box walls forming the gear box (5) are double-layer walls.

13. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 12, wherein each double-layer wall comprises an inner sound insulation wall (51) and an outer sound insulation wall (52) provided at an outer side of the inner sound insulation wall (51) at an interval, the thickness of the outer sound insulation wall (52) is D, and the thickness of the inner sound insulation wall (51) is H, where D is greater than H.

14. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 13, wherein D is greater than H+5 mm.

15. The centrifugal compressor according to claim 13, wherein D is greater than 20 mm and less than 30 mm, and H is greater than 15 mm and less than 25 mm.

16. A water chilling unit, comprising a centrifugal compressor according to claim 1.