Abstract:
A turbomachine has a housing which has at least one inflow channel. A plurality of blades is arranged on a rotor wheel and an operating medium flows toward the blades. The operating medium flows via the inflow channel into at least one blade channel which is formed between two blades mounted on the rotor. After exiting the rotor region, the operating medium enters a diffuser. A guide body deflects the operating medium flowing out of the blade channel in the direction of the diffuser. A portion of the guide body in the turbomachine is positioned in an intermediate region of the rotor. The intermediate region is surrounded in the radial direction by the rotor blades and lies between a blade-channel outlet and an inlet opening in an outlet channel which is downstream of the rotor and is formed by the diffuser.
Abstract:
Provided is a uni-axial multi-stage radial gas expander which has a high degree of reliability and which can sufficiently cope with the conditions of a high pressure and a high pressure ratio. Two or more radial gas expander sections (11A, 11B) formed of two-or-more-stage impeller vanes (14a to 14h) arranged between bearings (21a, 21b) on a rotor shaft (13) consisting of a single shaft are housed in a signal casing (10).
Abstract:
A housing (410, 510, 610, 700, 800, 900) for a turbocharger (400, 500, 600) is provided. The housing (410, 510, 610, 700, 800, 900) has an impeller chamber (403, 503, 603), diffuser (450, 550, 650, 750, 850, 950) and scroll (420, 520, 620, 720, 820, 920) in fluid communication with each other. The diffuser (450, 550, 650, 750, 850, 950) can have a curved shape and/or a bend (455) in proximity to a tip (408, 508, 608, 609) of the impeller (405, 505, 605). The curved shape can be defined by one or more radii of curvature (RC, RC1, RC2). The diffuser (450, 550, 650, 750, 850, 950) can extend in a radial direction that is non-orthogonal to the center line of the turbocharger (400, 500, 600). The housing (410, 510, 610, 700, 800, 900) can be for a compressor section of the turbocharger (400, 500, 600).
Abstract:
The invention relates to an ecological thrusting device enabling optimum thrust independent from the outside environment. It consists of a special Francis turbine (1) from which the fluid is axially ejected at the outlet of the vane (1′), at a relative speed W2t, and is collected in a defined free space of a straight radial pump (2). Under the action of the centrifugal force, the limit of the current lines forms a fixed virtual barrier Yt, thus preventing the centrifuged fluid from reaching the bottom of the pump in the free space area MNBCPQ, thereby eliminating the antagonistic force exerted on said zone. As a result, the thrusting force exerted on the turbine by the fluid remains intact. As the fluid leaves the pump, it is axially reinjected at a relative speed W2p into a tank (4) for resupplying the turbine. There is therefore an energy exchange between the pumps and the turbine that form a closed circuit, the entire system being driven by a motor (10). It is shown that the thrust force P=(½) pπω2 r4; p being the density of the centrifuged fluid in en Kg/m3; ω being the angular speed of the turbine in rad/s; and r its radius in metres and P in Newtons. The calculation shows that the amount of thrust generated is very high; said thruster can be used to generate mechanical energy anywhere in space, and especially to drive the most highly efficient flying machines.
Abstract:
A compressed air engine comprises a housing and an impeller body fixed on a primary power output shaft and located within the housing. An ejecting inlet ejects air to the impeller body in the housing. Working chambers are provided on the impeller body. The inner surface of the housing closes the working chambers so that the compressed air ejected to the working chambers pushes the impeller body to rotate and is temporarily stored in the working chamber, and an ejecting outlet is provided on the housing so that the compressed air temporarily stored in the working chamber expands outwards when the compressed air is rotated to the gas ejecting outlet and do work to further push the impeller body to rotate.
Abstract:
A rotary vortex machine having a stator (1) with an internal annular space (4) accommodating vanes (9) and a rotor (6) with an external annular space (7) accommodating a bridge (10) dividing the external annular space (7) into suction and delivery volumes. The rotor (6) has a curvilinear inlet passage (11) and a curvilinear outlet passage (12) to provide a flow of a service fluid essentially in one and the same direction in the suction and delivery volumes of the external annular space (7).
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for pumping liquid includes a pump casing with a vortex generating member which generates a swirling column of liquid which swirls about a central axis and which is directed through the pump inlet to discharge into the ambient body of liquid at which its energy is quickly dissipated. The surrounding ambient liquid is drawn through the pump inlet in a counterflow to the vortex column flow and flows into the pump casing and then out through a pump discharge. The preferred vortex generating member was channels of decreasing size converging toward the axis of the vortex column with the streams of liquid increasing their respective velocities as they flow toward the axis at which the streams join and concentrate their energies to form the vortex column. Preferably, the vortex member is driven by a power source.
Abstract:
A radial blower is provided with a spiral shape casing, which has an input port for the medium to be moved and an output port for the medium to be delivered. The input port is disposed on the side of the casing in the direction of a spiral axis and where the center of the input port is displaced relative to the center of the spiral. The output port connects the start of the spiral section to the end of the spiral section and forms a connection piece. The output port according to the invention increases in its cross-section continuously while going from the connection point of the spiral to the outer end. Preferably a protruding nose is placed at the junction point of the output port and of the smaller radius side of the spiral for enhancing the pushing power of the fan blades versus the medium and for reducing the flow resistance of the output port to the medium stream. This reduces the power requirements of the motor and increases the slope of the characteristic line for the dependence of the pressure on amount of medium flowing through.
Abstract:
The staging or compounding of drag-type turbines having a high energy input is herein accomplished by disposing successive stages of a drag turbine in radially offset relation, i.e., nested relationship with nozzles between radially displaced stages mounted either in fixed spatial position or mounted for rotation with the upstream rotor and providing either like or opposite directions of rotation of successive stages. The successive radial stages of the present invention are separately coupled to coaxial drive shafts which, in turn, may be appropriately coupled to rotary output means in a conventional manner to provide the output power and high efficiency of the multistaged turbine.
Abstract:
A water turbine for generating power is disclosed utilizing a multiple scroll housing for gathering, concentrating and guiding equal amounts of water about the turbine wheel or impeller.