TURBO-PUMP UNIT, AND COLD, HOT AND INDUSTRIAL WATER PUMPING METHOD Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC F04D13/04 F04D29/22 F04D29/44 

FIELD: engines and pumps.

SUBSTANCE: turbo-pump unit includes a turbine assembly comprising steam inlet and outlet housings, a nozzle block and a turbine. The unit includes a pump assembly comprising a housing with a screw centrifugal impeller of a closed type. The pump housing includes inlet and outlet housings and a projection-shaped rear annular element, which together form a flow cavity for arrangement of the impeller and an automatic rotor axial unloading mechanism. Blades of the impeller 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 at the outlet is divisible and exceeds at least by two times the number of blades at the inlet. Active volume of dynamic filling of a set of interblade impeller channels is equal to (4.7÷45)×10^-5 m³/vol of pumped medium. A spiral tap of the pump assembly is made in the form of a two-way volatile with difference of surface areas of outlet and inlet sections of channels, which is related to the channel length, with an expansion gradient in swirling direction, which is accepted based on a quasiequality condition of velocities of flows in each channel of the volatile.

EFFECT: increasing service life, improving compactness, efficiency and operating reliability of the unit and medium pumping effectiveness at simultaneous reduction of material consumption.

18 cl, 7 dwg