Open AccessDEVELOPMENT OF UHTREX GAS-BEARING COMPRESSORS
Author(s) -
W. E. Crowe,
H. Schwarz
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/4149085
Subject(s) - gas compressor , bearing (navigation) , hydrostatic equilibrium , rotor (electric) , helium , loop (graph theory) , mechanical engineering , turboexpander , helium gas , nuclear engineering , hydrostatic pressure , engineering , materials science , petroleum engineering , physics , mechanics , mathematics , atomic physics , quantum mechanics , astronomy , combinatorics
Two helium blowers operating on hydrodynamic gas bearing and suitable for highly contaminated systems are described. The cleanup loop blower easily met its design conditions (15-psi pressure rise at 120 lb/hr), as did the main loop blower (8 psi at 10,250 lb/hr). Hydrostatic journal bearings raise the rotor assembly to avoid wear during starting and stopping. (D.C.W.
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