TURBO-PUMP UNIT, AND COLD, HOT AND INDUSTRIAL WATER PUMPING METHOD Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC F04D13/04 F04D29/22 

FIELD: engines and pumps.

SUBSTANCE: turbo-pump unit includes turbine, support and pump assemblies. The turbine assembly includes steam inlet and outlet housings, a nozzle block and single-stage turbine. The pump unit includes a pump housing, a screw centrifugal impeller and an automatic rotor axial unloading device. The impeller s made in the form of a screw and a multiturn centrifugal pump of a closed type, which are combined. Blades of the latter are of different length and variable height as to length, which decreases towards the impeller outlet with observance of a quasiequality condition of the cross sectional area at an interblade channel inlet. Number of blades and interblade channels at the outlet is divisible, and exceeds at least by two times the number of blades and channels at the inlet. The screw is multiturn and has spiral blades and a hollow shaft; besides, it is equipped with smooth expansion in a transient zone of the screw channel to the multiturn channel of the centrifugal wheel. Screw blades have variable radius and/or pitch of spiral swirling and have a certain average gradient of swirling pitch increase.

EFFECT: increasing service life, improving operating reliability of a unit and pumping effectiveness of different liquid media to a consumer at simultaneous reduction of material consumption and improving compactness and efficiency of the unit.

19 cl, 7 dwg