Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Waste-heat recovery system in oil-cooled gas compressor
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Application No.: US16032554Application Date: 2018-07-11
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Publication No.: US10578339B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Kentaro Yamamoto , Masahiko Takano
- Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2013-013358 20130128
- Main IPC: F24H1/18
- IPC: F24H1/18 ; F25B31/00 ; F24H1/20 ; F04B39/06 ; F24H9/20 ; F04C29/04 ; F04B41/00 ; F04B53/08

Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is: to enable hot water at a required temperature to be supplied, even in cases when compressor load factor is low; to suppress heat dissipation from a waste-heat recovery device; and to improve waste-heat recovery rate. A waste-heat recovery system in an oil-cooled gas compressor is provided with: a compressor main body (3); an oil separator (6); gas piping (8) which supplies, to a demanded destination, compressed gas separated from oil by the oil separator; oil piping (7) which returns, to the compressor main body, the oil separated by the oil separator; and a waste-heat-recovery heat exchanger (10) which recovers heat from the compressed gas and/or the oil. The waste-heat recovery system is also provided with: a hot-water storage tank (19); circulation circuits (17, 18) in which a heat medium is made to circulate between the waste-heat recovery heat exchanger and the hot-water storage tank; a circulation pump (22) provided to these circulation circuits; and a control device (32) which, in cases when the temperature of the oil or the compressed gas subjected to heat exchange in the waste-heat-recovery heat exchanger is equal to or less than the temperature of the hot water in the hot-water storage tank, stops the circulation pump or reduces the rotational frequency of the circulation pump.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190113251A9 Waste-Heat Recovery System in Oil-Cooled Gas Compressor Public/Granted day:2019-04-18
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