A compressor having a housing and a rotor, the rotor having an impeller at least on one side; a compressor chamber being formed between the impeller and the housing, the rotor being rotationally mounted, an annular sealing channel being formed between the rotor and the housing, the sealing channel being routed from the compressor chamber to a zone having a lower pressure; a throttling section being provided in the sealing channel; the sealing section being configured in closer proximity to the low-pressure zone than to the compression chamber.

A water pump includes a mechanical seal provided between a housing and a rotary shaft for preventing cooling water from leaking from a whirl chamber. The housing forms a space into which cooling water leaked from between the mechanical seal and the rotary shaft is flown and a water vent for discharging cooling water flown into the space. The housing is joined with a thermostat cover to form a reservoir communicating with the water vent. The reservoir has a drain for releasing evaporated cooling water to the air and a control wall for preventing cooling water remaining as liquid from flowing out through the drain.

Techniques are provided for seal flush systems. A system may include a reactor circulation pump configured to circulate a slurry through a polymerization reactor. The slurry may include an olefin monomer, a catalyst, and a diluent. The system may also include a catalyst-inhibiting additive system configured to supply a catalyst-inhibiting additive to a seal of the reactor circulation pump and a seal flush system configured to generate a seal flush mixture and supply the seal flush mixture to the seal of the reactor circulation pump.

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a dual tandem seal configuration that can provide a seal around a drive shaft in a pumping apparatus. The pumping apparatus can include an outboard seal radially surrounding an adapter shaft. The outboard seal can be retained in place by a front bracket at a front end of the outboard seal and a retention lip of the adapter shaft at a rear end of the outboard seal. The pumping apparatus can further include an inboard seal radially surrounding the adapter shaft and located between the outboard seal and the pump. The inboard seal can be retained in place by a rear bracket at a front end of the inboard seal.

Disclosed herein is an apparatus for an immersible pump. The apparatus can include a shaft for communicating with a motor. The shaft includes a first region having a first diameter, a second region having a second diameter that is less than the first diameter, and a tapering region between the two regions. A sleeve can be provided to receive the shaft. A sealing device includes a receiving area in which the tapering region is at least partially positionable to form a seal, and an abutment that is configured to form a seal with the sleeve and that is responsive to a force directed from the sleeve to enhance the seal with the tapering region. In some embodiments, the sealing device is provided with a circumferential outer wall for centering the sleeve about the shaft and/or for aligning the force with the abutment.

A cooling or heating fluid circulation system of a cantilevered centrifugal pump, comprises a pump shaft, one end of which is connected with a vane wheel, a shaft sleeve sleeved on the periphery of the pump shaft, a left sealing gland and a right sealing gland, which are sleeved on the periphery of the shaft sleeve, are connected in sequence from one side of the vane wheel along the axial direction of the shaft sleeve; the gap between the left sealing gland and the said shaft sleeve is arranged with an inside rotating sealing ring fixed with the shaft sleeve and an inside stationary sealing ring fixed with the left sealing gland, an outside rotating sealing ring fixed with the shaft sleeve and an outside stationary sealing ring fixed with the right sealing gland are arranged in the gap between the right sealing gland and the shaft sleeve and away from the left sealing gland; a flow-restricted ring is arranged between the inner peripheral surface of the right sealing gland and the shaft sleeve; and a heat exchange fluid circulation channel, which is formed among the gap between the right sealing gland and the shaft sleeve, the shaft sleeve and the pump shaft, is connected with an external heat exchanger via an external channel. The present invention is capable of directly cooling or heating the rotating parts which are most in need of cooling or heating, thus the temperature of the rotating parts can be kept in a certain range.

A rotary device includes: a housing; an impeller disposed in the housing; a rotor disposed in the housing and configured to drive the impeller; and a labyrinth seal disposed between the impeller and the rotor in the housing and configured to control an amount of air injected through the impeller to cool the rotor. A flow path opening that penetrates through the rotor is formed inside the rotor along a rotational axis of the rotor and the labyrinth seal comprises a teeth portion having a predetermined number of steps provided in the labyrinth seal.

An auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump, comprising a main running pump and a standby pump which are provided with a same shaft seal flushing system respectively, the shaft seal flushing system of the main running pump and that of the standby pump being connected in parallel to form a common shaft seal flushing system. The common shaft seal flushing system comprises: a first outlet pipe connected to an outlet of the main running pump and a first switch valve provided on the first outlet pipe for switching the flushing fluid, a second outlet pipe connected to an outlet of the standby pump and a second switch valve provided on the second outlet pipe for switching the flushing fluid, and a first fluid guide pipe connected to the outlets of the first outlet pipe and the second outlet pipe; the outlet of the first fluid guide pipe is respectively connected to a flushing fluid inlet on a sealing gland of the main running pump by a third outlet pipe and connected to a flushing fluid inlet on a sealing gland of the standby pump by a fourth outlet pipe. The present invention can keep the parameters of the fluid material in sealed cavities of the main and standby pumps the same at all times.

A submersible well pump assembly has upper and lower seal sections connected between the pump and a motor. The seal sections have drive shafts with thrust runners that engage thrust bearing bases. The upper drive shaft will undergo a limited amount of downward movement toward the lower drive shaft in response to wear of the upper thrust bearing base. A spring between ends of the drive shafts transfers a portion of the down thrust on the upper drive shaft to the lower drive shaft prior to the limited amount of downward movement of the upper drive shaft toward the lower drive shaft being reached. A rigid stop member in the coupling transfers down thrust directly from the upper drive shaft to the lower drive shaft, bypassing the spring, only after the limited amount of downward movement of the upper drive shaft toward the lower drive shaft has been reached.

A bearing system for a turbocharger rotor assembly that includes an elongated bearing carrier with anti-friction bearings on each end carried in a stationary housing. The elongated bearing carrier is supported within the housing by axially spaced elastomeric bands in grooves in the outside diameter of the bearing carrier that cooperate with grooves in the bore of the stationary housing within which the elastomeric bands are seated to carry the axial thrust of the rotor assembly in both axial directions.