EP0919724B1 - Hydraulisch angetriebene Doppelmembranpumpe - Google Patents

Hydraulisch angetriebene Doppelmembranpumpe Download PDF

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EP0919724B1
EP0919724B1 EP98830707A EP98830707A EP0919724B1 EP 0919724 B1 EP0919724 B1 EP 0919724B1 EP 98830707 A EP98830707 A EP 98830707A EP 98830707 A EP98830707 A EP 98830707A EP 0919724 B1 EP0919724 B1 EP 0919724B1
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Giuseppe Corallo
Aldo Franchi
Luciano Cardinali
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B43/00—Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members
    • F04B43/02—Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members having plate-like flexible members, e.g. diaphragms
    • F04B43/06—Pumps having fluid drive
    • F04B43/073—Pumps having fluid drive the actuating fluid being controlled by at least one valve
    • F04B43/0733—Pumps having fluid drive the actuating fluid being controlled by at least one valve with fluid-actuated pump inlet or outlet valves; with two or more pumping chambers in series

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  • the present invention relates to a device for pumping liquids or aeriform substances, with double-acting reciprocating motion obtained hydraulically.
  • Liquid and aeriform pumping systems can be substantially subdivided into two classes: (a) fluid dynamic action systems, such as for example centrifugal pumps and the like, based on the laws of fluid dynamics and on the transfer between the momentum and the mechanical energy, and (b) positive-displacement systems, based on the variation of the volume enclosed in a pump casing by both direct and indirect mechanical action by means of a working fluid.
  • fluid dynamic action systems such as for example centrifugal pumps and the like
  • positive-displacement systems based on the variation of the volume enclosed in a pump casing by both direct and indirect mechanical action by means of a working fluid.
  • the present invention relates to a device for pumping liquids or aeriform substances of the above-mentioned type, which is included in the system class of the(b) group indicated above.
  • Said device is schematized in the annexed figure 1, and it is a reciprocating positive displacement pumping system indirectly operated by a fluid (oil) pressurized in a continuous way by means of a rotary positive displacement pump, in particular a gear pump which cooperates by means of a mechanical transmission of the same driving force which operates the pump, with a rotary valve which reverses the oil flow between the reciprocating pumping unit and a tank.
  • Figure 2 shows the behavior, as a function of time, of the flow rate of a pumping system such as the one showed in figure 1 according to the Italian patent No 1,262,358 previously referred to.
  • the pumping action is of a pulsating type, and the flow rate or delivery is similar to a square wave.
  • the pulsation is due to the fact that the diaphragm pumping unit (figure 1) is of the single acting type, and corresponds to the electrical analogy of a single half-wave rectifier.
  • Such pulsating behavior can suit numerous applications, but. in the case of high flow rates and pressures the pulsation of the pumped fluid, be it a liquid or an aeriform substance, may involve many problems such as periodic stresses in the system fed by the pump, with possible drawbacks due to fatigue stress of the components, noise and flow discontinuity which can prove harmful to refrigerators or heat pumps operating on an absorption cycle, as it is well-known to a man skilled in the art.
  • the aim of the present invention is to provide a device for pumping liquids or aeriform substances with a double-acting reciprocating motion or action, with diaphragm pumping units, or the like, of the class described in the above-mentioned Italian patent.
  • US 4,543,044 describes a dual-unit pump comprising: two piston pumping units adapted to function cooperatively; sealing means for dividing the housing of each piston into a variable-volume working liquid chamber and a complementary delivery liquid chamber; and flow control means apt to alternatively switch the flow of the two liquids from the housing of a piston to the other, which means includes a constant-delivery pump for the working liquid connected to said housings, valves and a tank.
  • EP 0 568 742 describes a method for transferring a production fluid incorporating liquid and gaseous phases from a well to an export point, which provides a system comprising two chambers at the lower parts of which liquid from a high pressure source is introduced by the action of a single phase liquid pump associated with a two position spool valve. The latter alternatively connects the chambers to the upstream and downstream sides of the pump.
  • a pumping system as claimed in claim 1 is provided.
  • An oil control assembly which comprises a prime motor consisting of an electric motor 10 which operates a positive displacement rotary pump 11, in particular a gear pump, to move a driving fluid (oil).
  • the transmission of mechanical operation by gear pump 11 through a reduction gear 12 operates a rotary valve 13 which supplies or withdraws oil from a first diaphragm pumping unit 14 and from a second diaphragm pumping unit 15.
  • the circuit of the oil which is the working fluid, and the arrangement of the ways of the rotary valve 13 imply a push-pull working of the pumping units 14 and 15, that is a 180° phase shift between the flow rate/pressure pulsations generated in the pumped fluid.
  • the "voids" shown in the schematization of the operative modes of the single-acting pumping system of figure 2 are eliminated.
  • a tank 16, not pressurized is provided, which, in order to compensate the expansion of the working fluid (oil), operates like an expansion tank, wherein the excess pressure from the pump 11 is discharged by means of a calibrated overpressure or safety valve 17.
  • Makeup oil can be withdrawn from the tank or expansion tank by means of a valve 18 which can be suitably calibrated, in order to prevent short circuits at the oil side during intake at low pressures.
  • This valve 18 is calibrated at a suitably low pressure to allow the suction of fluids at pressures equal or higher than the calibration pressure.
  • the pipe coming from the valve 18, together with the oil intake line at the side of the diaphragm units 14, 15 leads to tank 19 wherein a filter F is possibly located, which has an outlet 20 connected to the intake side of the gear pump 11.
  • An assembly of unidirectional valves 21, 22,23,24 in the configuration which is well known in electronics as "Graetz bridge", is located on the process side of the diaphragm pumping units 14,15.
  • the valves 21,22,23,24 are respectively connected to suction 25 and delivery 26 pipes.
  • figure 5 a second variant of the practical embodiment of figure 4 is shown.
  • a further safety valve 27, which is calibrated at a lower pressure than safety valve 17, can be provided on the delivery side of the pump 11.
  • the valve 27 is closed during the normal operation of the system, while, on the contrary, it is used during the first minutes of the system startup only to allow the discharge of the possible excess oil let into the charge, together with the one resulting from the thermal expansion at the normal operating temperature.
  • the variant of figure 6 corresponds to the one of figure 5.
  • the tank is partially full and the free space 28 over the oil mass serves as an expansion space to compensate the thermal expansions of the oil.
  • FIG. 7 A further embodiment is shown in figure 7, corresponding in part to the one in figure 6.
  • the pressure on the intake side of the diaphragm pumping units will have to be higher than the atmospheric pressure at least by the value required to overcome the elasticity of the diaphragm added to the pressure losses on the oil side. Otherwise, as it is evident, no pumping action would take place.
  • a diaphragm expansion tank 30 in the circuit of the working oil, is provided, only partially filled with oil.
  • the diaphragm expansion tank 30 allows the thermal expansion of the oil by means of the discharge valve, while the calibrated makeup valve allows the normal pumping with intake of oil from the diaphragm units and, only for makeup, also from the expansion tank.
  • the expansion tank 30 is connected on the side opposite to the oil side, to the intake pipe on the process side, so as to cause the makeup pressure of the makeup valve to adjust automatically to the intake pressure on the process side, hence eliminating the occurrence of short-circuits on the oil side.
  • the oil circuit remains sealed on the environment side in order to prevent leaks of harmful substances in case of a break of the pumping units' diaphragms.
  • Said separation between the oil and the process fluid can be obtained, as it is known to a man skilled in the art, by means of elastic seals between the cylinder and the piston with or without the aid of a so-called "lantern” separating the cylinder on the process side from the cylinder on the oil side.
  • the free-piston pumping unit comprises a cylinder 40 inside which a piston 41, kept sealed by seals 42, can slide.
  • the piston 41 defines a first control chamber 43 wherein a working fluid (oil) can be forwarded and withdrawn by means of a line 44, and a second working or positive displacement pumping chamber 45, which cooperates with a delivery valve 46 and a suction valve 47.
  • the valves 46, 47 are respectively snown as unidirectional valves of the ball type with a conical seat, however, it is clear that they can be of other shapes.

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  1. Vorrichtung von einer doppeltvnrkenden, hin- und hergehenden Bauart zum Pumpen von Flussigkeiten oder luftartigen Stoffen, mit einer ersten (14) und einer zweiten (15) Pumpeinheit, die mit einem Trennelement zwischen einem Arbeitsfluid und einem gepumpten Fluid versehen sind, so dass sich die beiden Fluide nicht miteinander vermischen können, wobei die Einheiten mit einem Ölsteuersystem verbunden sind, das so ausgebildet ist, dass es hin- und hergehende Bewegungen In den Trennelementen der Einheiten (14, 15) mit Hilfe von Drucköl hervorruft, so dass eine Saugphase in einer Einheit (14, 15) und eine Förderphase in der anderen Einheit (15, 14), und umgekehrt, auf kontinuierlichem Wege erzeugt werden,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Ölsteuersystem wenigstens einen Motor (10) aufweist, eine Drehkolbenölpumpe (11), ein Drehzahluntersetzungsgetriebe (12), einen Vierwegeverbindungsdrehschieber (13) und einen Arbeitsöltank (19) für die Pumpeinheiten (14, 15), die miteinander in Wirkverbindung stehen,
    wobei der Arbeitsöltank (19) einen Auslass (20) hat, der mit der Einlassseite der Ölpumpe (11) verbunden ist, und
    wobei der Arbeitsöltank (19) verschlossen ist und eine Einrichtung hat zum Halten des Druckes desselben auf einem niedrigeren Wert als der Druck des gepumpten Fluids auf der Einlassseite ("Saugen") der ersten (14) und der zweiten (15) Pumpeinheit.
  2. Vornchtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Pumpeinheiten (14, 15) von der Membranbauart sind
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Ölsteuersystem Pulsationen rechteckigen Typs mit einer Phasenverschiebung von 180° erzeugt, die durch zyklisches Reversieren des Saugens und des Förderns der Drehkolbenpumpe (11) gewonnen werden.
  4. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Drehschieber (13) zwei flache Planscheiben aufweist, von denen die erste eine feststehende Scheibe mit Verbindungslöchern für die Ölleitungen ist, die zweite eine bewegliche Scheibe mit Schlitzen ist, die dazu dienen, die Löcher in der feststehenden Scheibe paarweise zu invertieren, platziert in einem geeigneten verschlossenen Kasten, der seinerseits uber ein Loch unter Druck gesetzt wird, welches ihn mit einer Druckolleitung verbindet, um so VerSchleißspiel zwischen den beiden Schieben mit Hilfe des hydraulischen Öldruckes zu gewahrleisten.
  5. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die bewegliche Scheibe direkt an dem langsamen Zahnrad des Drehzahluntersetzungsgetriebes gebildet ist.
  6. Vorrichtung nach einem oder mehreren der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie einen externen Ölexpansionstank (16) aufweist, der unter atmosphärischem Druck steht und mit dem der Auslass eines Sicherheitsventils (17) verbunden ist, das auf der Forderseite der Drehkolbenpumpe (11) angeordnet ist und von dem aus ein Ergänzungsventil saugt, das auf einen geeignet niedrigen Druck geeicht ist, um das Saugen von gepumpten Fluids bei Drücken zu erlauben, die gleich dem oder hoher als der Eichdruck sind.
  7. Vorrichtung nach einem oder mehreren der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die beiden Pumpeinheiten überdimensioniert sind, so dass eine thermische Expansion des Arbeitsfluids moglich ist, und dass sie ein internes Umgehungssicherheitsventil (17) zwischen der Vorderseite und der Saugseite der Pumpe (11) aufweist.
  8. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie ein zweites Sicherheitsventil (27) aufweist, das während des normalen Betriebes verschlossen ist und das erlaubt, mögliches Überschussöl, das während der Ladephase eingelassen worden ist, nach außen abzulassen.
  9. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Öltank (19) teilweise gefüllt ist und während der anfänglichen Ladephase auf einen ausreichend niedrigen Druck eingestellt ist, um das Saugen der gepumpten Fluids bei Drücken zu gestatten, die höher sind als der Druck, der in dem Tank vorhanden ist.
  10. Vorrichtung nach einem oder mehreren der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie einen Druckölexpansionstank (30) aufweist, der denselben Einlassdruck des zu pumpenden Fluids hat und einen Membranexpansionstank aufweist, um das Lecken von schädlichen Stoffen zu verhindern, die mit dem Öl in Kontakt gekommen sein können, und um Kurzschlüsse in dem Öl zu verhindern.
  11. Vorrichtung nach einem oder mehreren der Ansprüche 1 und 3 bis 10, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Pumpeinheiten von der Freikolbenbauart sind.
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