A centrifugal fan includes a water outlet connecting an interior and an exterior of a housing at a position closer to a radially inner side than an impeller such that liquid at a bottom of the housing is able to be discharged quickly, and accumulation of the liquid is avoided, to ensure normal operation of the centrifugal fan.

Provided is a compressor including: a compressor body that has a motor and compresses air; an aftercooler for cooling the compressed air supplied from the compressor body; a dryer for dehumidifying the compressed air flowing out from the aftercooler; a drain discharge valve for discharging a drain from the dryer; a first pressure sensor for measuring air pressure downstream of the aftercooler; and a control device having a rotation-speed adjusting unit that drives the motor at second acceleration smaller than first acceleration, the first acceleration being rated acceleration of the motor, when a pressure value measured by the first pressure sensor is less than a first threshold value predetermined at startup of the motor.

This electric compressor includes a rotation shaft including a first end and a second end, a compressor impeller which is mounted on the first end of the rotation shaft and includes a back surface facing the second end, a motor disposed between the first end and the second end of the rotation shaft, a wall portion which separates an impeller space and a motor space from each other and includes a reference wall surface having a shape along the back surface of the compressor impeller, and a bypass hole which is formed in the wall portion to connect the impeller space to the motor space and includes a first opening which opens to the impeller space. In the wall portion, a recessed portion which is disposed around the first opening of the bypass hole and recessed from the reference wall surface is formed.

A vacuum pump in which a pump main body and a control apparatus that controls the pump main body are integrated with each other. The control apparatus includes a cylindrical portion which protrudes from a chassis of the control apparatus and inside which a cable that connects the pump main body and the control apparatus to each other is passed. A height of the cylindrical portion exceeds a height of a gap formed between a bottom portion of the pump main body and the chassis of the control apparatus.

A side-channel compressor (1) for a fuel cell system (37) for conveying and/or compressing a gas, in particular hydrogen, having a housing (3), having a compressor chamber (30) which is situated in the housing (3) and which has two encircling side channels (19, 21), having a compressor impeller (2) which is situated in the housing (3) and which is arranged so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation (4), wherein the compressor impeller (2) has conveying cells (28) arranged at the circumference thereof and in the region of the compressor chamber (30), and having in each case one gas inlet opening (14) formed on the housing (3) and one gas outlet opening (16), which openings are fluidically connected to one another via the compressor chamber (30), in particular the two side channels (19, 21), and wherein, in the region of the compressor chamber (30), an encapsulation of the respective side channel (19, 21) is realized by at least one separation region (35) by means of a surface pairing of the compressor wheel (2) and of the housing (3). According to the invention, here, the at least one separation region (35) is formed by a surface pairing of the components compressor impeller (2) and housing (3) such that the respective one component has encircling edges (5), in particular with encircling tips (11), and the respective other component has an encircling, at least approximately planar counterpart surface (23).

The present invention relates to an air cleaner, including a body forming an exterior; a suction portion formed on the body to suck air; a discharge portion formed on the body and discharging the air sucked through the suction portion; and a fan module provided in the body to form a flow of air flowing from the suction portion to the discharge portion, wherein the fan module includes: a driving portion forming a rotation shaft and generating power; a fan receiving the power from the driving portion and rotating about the rotation shaft; and a shroud accommodating the fan and provided between the suction portion and the discharge portion to guide the air sucked through the suction portion to the discharge portion, and the shroud includes a guide portion guiding foreign substances introduced through the discharge portion in a direction opposite to the flow of air.

An expander and motor-compressor unit is disclosed. The unit includes a casing and an electric motor arranged in the casing. A compressor is arranged in the casing and drivingly coupled to the electric motor through a central shaft. Furthermore, a turbo-expander is arranged for rotation in the casing and is drivingly coupled to the electric motor and to the compressor through the central shaft.

A blower unit includes at least a blower case that is hollow and a centrifugal fan coupled to a rotational shaft of a motor that is housed in the blower case and has the rotational shaft in an integrally rotatable manner. The blower case includes an outer surface including two side surfaces facing each other at a predetermined interval, and an outer circumferential surface continuous with the two side surfaces. The blower case includes a suction port, an air discharge portion provided with an exhaust port at a distal end, and a wire harness outlet. The exhaust port and the wire harness outlet face in the same direction as viewed from the side surface.

A method of cleaning deposited solid material from a fouled portion of a gas compressor whilst the gas compressor is in situ in a natural gas processing system is provided. The method comprises the steps of supplying a liquid cleaning agent to a gas inlet of the gas compressor, the liquid cleaning agent being capable of removing the deposited solid material; passing the liquid cleaning agent through the gas compressor to a gas outlet of the gas compressor, wherein at least a portion of the cleaning agent remains in a liquid state as it passes through the fouled portion of the gas compressor; and recovering a fluid containing removed material that is output from the gas compressor so as to prevent the removed material reaching one or more gas processing stages of the gas processing system downstream of the gas compressor.

A power source-integrated vacuum pump in which a pump main body including a pump rotor and a pump power source configured to supply power to the pump main body are integrated together, comprises: a pump housing configured to house the pump rotor; a power source housing of the pump power source, the power source housing being fixed to the pump housing; a heat transfer member provided at a fixing portion between the pump housing and the power source housing in contact with the pump housing and the power source housing; and a sealing member provided at the fixing portion between the pump housing and the power source housing to seal between the pump housing and the power source housing.