A dry gas seal includes a mating ring that can be coupled a the rotating shaft to rotate with the rotating shaft, a retainer ring that can be fixedly attached to the compressor and a carrier ring moveably coupled to the retainer ring. The carrier ring including a primary ring carrying face, a rear face and a sealing surface extending between the primary ring carrying face and the rear face. The sealing surface including an oleophobic coating disposed thereon.

A dry gas extraction device is described, for extracting a dry gas from a wet gas flow. The device comprises a wet gas duct having a side wall surrounding an inner gas flow volume. The device further comprises at least one dry gas intake port located in a position inside the gas flow volume at a distance from the side wall.

A dry gas mechanical seal system configured to inhibit the emission of process gas. The mechanical seal system having tandem first and second stage seals, and a single separation gas supply subsystem configured to direct a supply of separation gas from an inlet through interfacing portions of the first stage seal into a process cavity and from the inlet through the interfacing portions of the second stage seal and out through an outlet to the atmosphere, thereby inhibiting the emission of process gas between a compressor housing and a rotating compressor shaft.

An oil seal structure and a compressing apparatus including the oil seal structure are provided. The oil seal structure includes a rotating shaft, a bearing, a lower housing portion, an upper housing portion, an assembly surface seal member inserted into a first assembly surface seal groove, and an oil seal member provided in a first seal groove and a second seal groove and including a flange portion, wherein a lower oil receiving portion is formed in the lower housing portion, a first passage groove is formed in the first seal groove, and an oil passage is formed between a bottom surface of the first passage groove and the flange portion.

A turbomachine face seal includes a turbine wheel with a cylindrical shaft extending from the turbine wheel, defining an axis of rotation. The shaft may include a heat throttle, such as a piston ring and groove assembly, or a shaft weld pocket having an annular heat choke groove. Circumscribing the shaft is a casing and a seal ring having a groove with a seal element. To cool the seal element, a pressurized oil jet is directed toward the casing, and impinges against the casing. The oil jet may be angled or parallel with the axis of rotation. The casing may be configured to trap oil from the oil jet to cool the seal element. A second oil jet may be used for additional cooling. Alternatively, the turbomachine face seal may include a bellows, positioned between the casing and the shaft, which restricts entry of gasses and contaminants into the face seal.

A sealing system includes: a double mechanical seal having a pump-side sealing mechanism (10, 12) and an atmospheric-side sealing mechanism (11, 13); a pump mechanism (19) driven by a rotational shaft (1); a first medium circulation line (30) for circulating a fluid barrier-and-cooling medium between a first chamber (22a) and a second chamber (22b), the first medium circulation line (30) being coupled to the first chamber (22a) and the second chamber (22b), the fluid barrier-and-cooling medium being different from a fluid handled by the centrifugal pump; a heat exchanger (21) and a shut-off valve (28) attached to the first medium circulation line (30); a second medium circulation line (31) bypassing the shut-off valve (28); and a medium pressurizing pump (45) and an on-off valve (23) attached to the second medium circulation line (31).

The invention relates to a gas-lubricated mechanical seal arrangement using a gaseous fluid as a barrier medium, comprising a mechanical seal comprising a rotating slide ring (2) and a stationary slide ring (3) defining a seal gap (4) therebetween, a biasing means (5) biasing the stationary slide ring (3) towards the rotating slide ring (2), a fluid space (6), into which the gaseous fluid can be introduced, a first slide ring carrier (20) for retaining the rotating slide ring (2), the first slide ring carrier (20) having a first axial surface (21), a second slide ring carrier (30) for retaining the stationary slide ring (3), the second slide ring carrier (30) having a second axial surface (31), the second slide ring (30) and the stationary slide ring (3) being arranged together on a displacement surface (32) so as to be displaceable in the axial direction (X-X), an axial gap (7), which is limited by the first axial surface (21) and the second axial surface (31), and an antechamber (8) which is formed at the sealing gap (4) of the mechanical seal and which is connected to the fluid space (6) via the axial gap (7).

A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and at least one rotatable shaft. The engine further includes a seal assembly including a seal plate mounted for rotation with the rotatable shaft and a face seal in contact with the seal plate at a contact area. The seal plate includes a cooling passageway having a circumferentially-extending section radially aligned with the contact area.

A dry gas seal for sealing the shaft of a turbomachinery, provided with means for the continuous health monitoring of the dry gas seal comprising one or more sensors adapted to measure strains and/or loads induced to the primary ring of the dry gas seal and/or strains induced to one or more of the elastic elements coupled to the primary ring and/or adapted to measure displacements of the primary ring or of an element coupled to the primary ring, for an early detection of failure of the seal, thus enabling main failures early detection capability and proactive maintenance actions.

A device has two components with at least one of the components being rotatable relative to the other component. The components each have oil-conducting regions. The components are operatively connected to one another via an overlap region to transfer oil. The overlap region is delimited by a sealing unit which has at least one slide ring seal. The slide ring seal includes at least one recess which is operatively connected to the oil-conducting regions and which is formed to run in the direction of a sealing side, averted from said oil-conducting regions, of the slide ring seal. Via the sealing side, the slide ring seal bears sealingly against at least one of the components. An end, which faces toward the sealing side, of the recess is spaced apart from the sealing side in an axial direction of the slide ring seal.