WO2015198647A1 - 気体圧縮機 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a gas compressor, and more particularly to a gas compressor that controls a bearing oil supply amount according to a rotational speed and a discharge pressure.
- ⁇ Oil-free screw compressors that do not require oil or water supply to the compression chamber are known.
- a screw compressor or the like that has a pair of male and female screw rotors that can rotate in a non-contact and oil-free manner and compresses a gas such as air by the screw rotors is known.
- a lubricating oil that lubricates and cools rotor bearings, gears, a compressor body, and the like, and a heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the lubricating oils are provided. The lubricating oil is circulated.
- the supply amount of lubricating oil required for bearing lubrication of a rotor that is a compression rotating body can be defined by a constant according to the bearing specifications, a target bearing temperature, a rotation speed, a discharge pressure, and a load by a gear. During the operation of the compressor, the rotation speed or the discharge pressure becomes a variable, and the oil supply amount is changed by either of them.
- Patent Document 1 describes that the oil supply means to the bearing is controlled at the time of no-load operation or at a low rotation, and the amount of oil supply is reduced and the power consumption is reduced compared to the load operation. .
- the relationship between the pressure of the compressed gas and the amount of gas discharged can be variously designed according to the specifications.
- Patent Document 2 an operation method in which the amount of gas is large even at the same pressure is known (Patent Document 2).
- the increase in the amount of discharged gas is controlled by the number of revolutions (the number of revolutions of a compression means such as a screw, the number of revolutions of a motor that drives the compressor).
- Such an operation in which the discharge pressure is reduced and the rotation speed is increased is known as a “low pressure wind-up operation”.
- JP 2002-364568 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-209949
- Patent Document 1 uses either the rotation speed or the discharge pressure (bearing load) to reduce the amount of oil supplied to the bearing during no-load operation or low rotation, but the relationship between the discharge pressure and the rotation speed is low.
- the bearing oil supply amount cannot be properly controlled. It is desirable to appropriately control the amount of bearing oil supplied for various specifications of discharge pressure (bearing load) and rotation speed.
- a gas compressor is a compressor body having a rotating body that compresses gas, a bearing that supports the rotating body on the compressor body casing, and an oil case that stores lubricating oil supplied to the bearing.
- a lubricating oil pipe through which the lubricating oil flows from the oil case to the bearing, an oil pump that pumps the lubricating oil from the oil case to the bearing through the lubricating oil pipe, and an amount of lubricating oil that flows through the lubricating oil pipe
- a flow rate control means an electric motor that supplies power to the rotating body, an inverter that outputs a rotation frequency of the electric motor, a pressure sensor that detects a discharge pressure of the compression body, and the pressure sensor that corresponds to the detected pressure of the pressure sensor
- the amount of lubricating oil supplied to the bearing is determined from the number of rotations of the rotating body corresponding to the load of the bearing and the rotational frequency output from the inverter, and the flow is determined based on the amount of lubricating oil supplied.
- a configuration and a control unit for controlling the control means is determined from the number of rotations of the rotating body corresponding to the load of the bearing and the rotational frequency output from the inverter, and the flow is determined based on
- an appropriate amount of lubricating oil can be supplied to the bearing in accordance with the bearing load corresponding to the discharge pressure and the bearing rotational speed.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an overall configuration of an oil-free screw compressor 100 (hereinafter simply referred to as “compressor 100”) as an embodiment to which the present invention is applied.
- compressor 100 compresses air (atmosphere).
- the compressor 100 is not limited to an oil-free screw compressor.
- the compressor 100 includes a compressor main body 1 having a pair of male and female screw rotors (rotating bodies) that can rotate in a non-contact and non-lubricating manner with a timing gear, and for compressed air that cools the compressed air discharged from the compressor main body 1.
- the control device A is composed of a programmable computer, and is characterized by controlling the oil supply amount of the compressor bearing 16 by the discharge pressure (bearing load) and the rotational speed.
- the housing of the compressor 100 includes a scavenging port 40 for scavenging air in the housing on the upper surface, and an intake port 41 for sucking outside air on the side of the housing facing the motor 2 located on the upstream side of the airflow in the housing.
- a scavenging cooling fan 20 is provided inside the housing in the vicinity of the scavenging port 40, and outside air flows in the order of the motor 2, the compressor body 1, and the heat exchangers 14 a and 14 b from the intake port 41, and the exhaust duct 35. The outside air that has reached the point is scavenged from the scavenging port 40 to the outside of the housing.
- the number of rotations of the cooling fan 20 is controlled by the control device A within a certain range according to detection signals from various sensors (not shown) that monitor the pressure of the compressed air, the temperature of the motor 2, and the like. To be controlled.
- the motor 2 receives electric power of an arbitrary frequency from the inverter 19 via the control device A, and can rotate at a variable speed.
- a driving pulley 3a is installed at the output shaft end of the motor 2, and is transmitted to the driving pulley 3b via the driving belt 4 suspended on the driving pulley 3a.
- the driving pulley 3 b is connected coaxially with the gear shaft 6.
- the gear shaft 6 is connected to a bull gear 7 disposed inside the gear case 11, and this bull gear 7 meshes with a pinion gear 8 installed at the end of the male (or female) rotor shaft of the compressor main body 1.
- the power of 2 is transmitted to the screw rotor.
- Compressor body 1 draws in outside air from the intake section via air filter 5 and compresses it.
- the compressed air is discharged to the pipe 25a.
- the pipe 25a is connected to the compressed air heat exchanger 14b, but there is a branch to the air discharge path 26 in front of the pipe 25a.
- the air release path 26 can release compressed air to the atmosphere by opening and closing an electromagnetic valve 27 provided on the downstream side thereof. That is, the compressor 100 consumes compressor air on the user side, and when the pressure of the compressed air reaches a predetermined value, the compressor 100 performs a no-load operation that reduces the load on the compressor body 1 and reduces power consumption. It has become. In normal operation, the compressed air discharged to the pipe 25a flows to the heat exchanger 14b for compressed air.
- Compressed air heat exchanger 14b is a tube-type or plate-type heat exchanger.
- the compressed air heat exchanger 14b is supplied with a coolant (water or coolant) (not shown), cools the compressed air to a desired temperature by heat exchange with the coolant, and then discharges the compressed air to the user side via the pipe 25b. It is like that.
- a pressure sensor 18 that measures the discharge pressure value and outputs it to the control device A is installed downstream of the pipe 25b. That is, the pressure sensor 18 measures the pressure value on the use side (user side) of compressed air.
- an oil pump driving gear 9 is installed on the shaft end of the gear shaft 6 opposite to the pulley 3b.
- the pump driving gear 9 meshes with a driven gear connected to the oil pump 10 so that the power of the motor 2 is transmitted to the oil pump 10.
- the oil pump 10 pumps the lubricating oil 12 stored in the gear case 11 to the lubricating oil heat exchanger 14c via the lubricating oil pipe 13a.
- the lubricating oil 12 cooled to a predetermined temperature or lower by the lubricating oil heat exchanger 14c is sent to the discharge-side and intake-side compressor bearings 16 through the lubricating oil pipe 13b and the oil filter 15, and thereafter.
- the gear case 11 is collected.
- the oil pump 10 uses a drive system of the compressor body 1 through a pump drive gear 9 and the like. That is, the supply amount of the lubricating oil also increases / decreases as the rotational speed of the motor 2 increases / decreases.
- the oil pump 10 is designed so that the required supply amount Q of the lubricating oil supplied from the oil pump 10 according to the rotational speed satisfies the following [Equation 1] in normal operation (so-called rated operation). It shall be.
- a drain oil solenoid valve 17 and a lubricating oil pipe 13c are provided as flow control means for controlling the supply of the lubricating oil.
- the lubricating oil 12 conveyed from the pump 10 is returned to the gear case 11 via the lubricating oil pipe 13a by turning the oil draining electromagnetic valve 17 "open (ON)" in accordance with a command from the control device A. It has become.
- the amount of lubricating oil flowing through the lubricating oil passages 13a and 13b can be controlled by "opening (ON) / closing (OFF)" of the oil discharge solenoid valve 17, and as a result, the oil supply amount of the bearing 16 is increased or decreased. become. That is, it is necessary to limit the amount of lubricating oil to be supplied at the time of “low-pressure wind-increasing operation” described later.
- the oil discharge solenoid valve 17 when the oil discharge solenoid valve 17 is set to “open (ON)”, not all the lubricating oil is recirculated from the lubricating oil pipe 13c to the gear case 11, but a part is recirculated, and the other is the lubricating oil. It is configured to be pumped to the pipe 13a or the like. In the case of “open (ON)”, the amount of the lubricating oil pumped to the lubricating oil pipe 13a corresponds to a necessary supply amount (Q) that is an appropriate amount according to the bearing load and the bearing rotational speed. The required supply amount (Q) will be described later.
- the means for controlling the supply amount of the lubricating oil 12 is not limited to the oil discharge solenoid valve 17.
- an autonomous motor (such as a motor) may be applied to the pump 10 and the degree of driving may be controlled in accordance with a command value from the control device A or the like, or a combination thereof may be used.
- the description will be made on the assumption that the switching of the oil discharge solenoid valve 17 is performed in two stages of “open” and “closed”, but the present invention is not limited to this, and can be performed in more stages.
- the control device A is a programmable computer including an arithmetic device and a volatile / nonvolatile memory, and inputs / outputs control signals to / from each part of the compressor 100 in cooperation with software and the arithmetic device. Further, the control device A receives input from an input panel (not shown) installed on the outer periphery of the housing or from an operator input from a control device (including a PC or server) from the outside of the compressor 100 via a network. The set pressure value is input and stored in a memory (not shown).
- the control device A receives the current pressure value output from the pressure sensor 18 in real time or at predetermined intervals, compares it with the set pressure value stored in the memory, and compresses until the current pressure value becomes the set pressure value. A predetermined rotation frequency is commanded to the inverter 19 so that the machine main body 1 is loaded. Then, the control device A receives feedback of the current frequency value from the inverter 19.
- the control device A switches to control of no-load operation.
- the control device A opens the air release valve 27 to release air through the air release silencer and to reduce the rotational frequency of the compressor main body rotor to the inverter 19 to reduce the rotational frequency. Is output.
- the current pressure value from the pressure sensor 18 is continuously monitored, and when the pressure value drops below the set pressure or near the set pressure according to the consumption of the compressor air on the user side, the release valve 27 Is closed and the inverter 19 is commanded to increase the rotational frequency until the set pressure value is reached, and the load operation is resumed.
- control device A compares the pressure detected by the pressure sensor 18 and the result of the output frequency command value of the motor 2 obtained based on the pressure with a predetermined set value, and opens / closes the oil discharge solenoid valve 17. Decide to close. Before describing the control of the oil discharge solenoid valve 17, the low pressure wind increase operation of the compressor 100 will be described.
- the compressor 100 is configured to be able to perform a low-pressure wind increase operation.
- the low-pressure wind increase operation refers to an operation in which the rotation speed of the compressor rotor is increased with respect to the discharge pressure of the compressor body 1 and the air amount with respect to the discharge pressure is increased. Further, the increase in the rotational speed of the compressor rotor is increased in the same range as the power consumption during normal operation. As a result, the power consumption is constant, the amount of air is increased, and low-pressure compressed air can be generated.
- Such control is performed by changing the output frequency of the inverter 19.
- the control device A causes the inverter 19 to drive the motor 2 at a preset frequency corresponding to the set pressure value. If the frequency at this time is the rated frequency, the motor 2 is driven at a frequency higher than the rating in the low pressure wind-up operation.
- the operator may change the operation state by inputting and setting the pressure and the air volume via the input panel described above, or the pressure and frequency as the initial value of the low-pressure wind increase operation.
- a value may be stored in advance in a memory, and the operator may switch the operation mode from the input panel.
- the operation in which the pressure is lower and the frequency is higher than the rated operation will be described as the low-pressure wind-increasing operation, but the present invention is also applicable to the case where the frequency at any operation is rated. It can be done.
- the amount of lubricating oil to be supplied to the bearing 16 also changes according to each operating condition. There is a need to. That is, if the supply amount of the lubricating oil during the low-pressure wind-up operation is left as it is during the rated operation, the supply amount becomes excessive, resulting in a mechanical loss.
- FIG. 3 shows the relationship between the rotation frequency ratio and the bearing oil supply ratio, and the operation of the oil discharge solenoid valve 17.
- line C is a line showing the relationship between the rotational frequency ratio and the amount of oil supplied to the bearing.
- the required amount of oil supplied to the bearing 16 is, for example, [Equation 1] described above.
- the range D in the high speed rotation region becomes an excessive oil supply state with respect to the required oil supply amount.
- the power consumed by the compressor 100 includes a mechanical loss that occurs in the compressor bearing 16.
- the mechanical loss includes a loss that changes according to the rotational speed and a friction loss that changes depending on the oil supply temperature and the amount of oil supplied.
- the control device A reduces the amount of oil supplied to the bearing 16 by opening the oil draining electromagnetic valve 17 at the time of low-pressure wind increase in which the rotation frequency ratio exceeds 100%. As a result, power consumption due to friction loss or the like can be reduced (depending on the specification, for example, reduction of about 1 to several percent).
- the control device A has a bearing load (F) corresponding to the current pressure value from the pressure sensor 18, a bearing rotational speed (n) corresponding to the output frequency value fed back from the inverter 19, and a coefficient ( The required supply amount (Q) is obtained from a), and it is determined whether the pumping amount of the oil pump 10 corresponding to the output frequency value exceeds the obtained required supply amount (Q).
- the solenoid valve 17 is instructed to “open (ON)” to limit the amount of lubricating oil that is pumped to the lubricating oil pipes 13a and 13b.
- the control device A determines the required supply amount and the current oil based on the corresponding bearing load from the current pressure value from the pressure sensor 18 and the output frequency fed back from the inverter 19 and the corresponding bearing rotational speed.
- the bearing 16 can be appropriately adjusted according to the bearing load and the bearing rotational speed.
- the oil supply amount is controlled.
- the optimal amount of lubricating oil 12 can be dynamically obtained according to the relationship between the rotational frequency and the discharge pressure, and unnecessary power consumption can be reduced by reducing unnecessary loss. Mitigation can be improved.
- the compressor 100 since a certain amount of lubricating oil is pumped to the lubricating oil pipe 13 a even when the oil discharge solenoid valve 17 is “open”, the lubricating oil is not supplied to the bearing 16 or the like when the compressor body 1 is driven. There is no loss of supply.
- the compressor 100 is provided with a lubricating oil pipe 13c and a drained electromagnetic valve 17 for adjusting the amount of lubricating oil supplied to the bearing 16 and the like, and an oil pump drive system is provided to increase the efficiency of the configuration.
- the amount of lubricating oil can be adjusted while ensuring the structural advantage of utilizing the drive system of the compressor body.
- the control device determines the appropriate amount of lubricating oil according to the bearing load and the bearing rotational speed corresponding to the current pressure sensor value, the input set pressure value, and the frequency command value to the inverter 19, respectively.
- the correspondence table in which the oil supply amount corresponding to the pressure and the frequency is calculated is stored in advance in the memory, and the opening / closing of the oil discharge control valve 17 is determined based on the correspondence table. You may comprise as follows. The calculation processing load can be reduced.
- Such a correspondence table may be stored for normal operation and low-pressure wind increase operation, respectively, and switched together with the operation mode. Further, a table may be used during normal operation or low-pressure wind-in operation, and the calculation may be performed by the control device A in the other operation, or vice versa.
- the drive system of the oil pump 10 is shared with the drive system of the compressor body 1 .
- the drive system of the oil pump 10 is made independent using a small electric motor, and the control device A
- the supply amount of the lubricating oil may be adjusted by outputting a drive command to the oil pump 10. That is, when the required supply amount (Q) of the lubricating oil determined by the control device A is larger than the current supply amount of the oil pump 10, the control device A causes the small electric motor to be the required supply amount (Q). A command to decrease the rotational speed is output, and if it is low, a command to increase is output.
- a single-stage machine is used as an example of the compressor 100, but a multi-stage machine including a low-pressure stage compressor and a high-pressure stage compressor may be used.
- the compression means is not limited to a pair of male and female screw compressors, but can also be applied to compression means configured to supply lubricating oil to the bearing (for example, scroll type, claw type, single or triple type). Screw type).
- the double rotor type screw compressor has been described as the compressor rotor.
- a single rotor or a triple rotor may be used, and a scroll type, reciprocating type, claw type, screw and rotary compression plate may be used. It can be applied to the bearing oil supply control of a compressor such as a mixing type.
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図1に、本発明を適用した一実施形態である無給油式スクリュー圧縮機100(以下、単に「圧縮機100」という場合がある。)の全体構成を例示する。本例において、圧縮機100は、空気(大気)を圧縮するものとする。なお、圧縮機100は、無給油式スクリュー圧縮機に限定されるものではない。
圧縮機本体1の回転機構と同様にして、ギヤシャフト6上でプーリ3bと反対側の軸端には、オイルポンプ駆動用ギヤ9が設置される。ポンプ駆動用ギヤ9は、オイルポンプ10に接続された被駆動用ギヤと歯合し、モータ2の動力がオイルポンプ10に伝わるようになっている。オイルポンプ10は、潤滑油配管13aを介して、ギヤケース11に貯留された潤滑油12を潤滑油用熱交換器14cに圧送する。潤滑油用熱交換機14cで所定の温度以下に冷却された潤滑油12は、潤滑油用配管13b及びオイルフィルタ15を介して、吐出し側及び吸気側夫々の圧縮機軸受16に送られ、その後、ギヤケース11に回収されるようになっている。
なお、潤滑油12の供給量を制御する手段は、排油電磁弁17に限るものではなない。例えば、ポンプ10に自律型の発動機(モータ等)を適用し、制御装置A等からの指令値に応じて駆動の程度を制御する様に構成してもよいし、これらを組み合わせてもよい。また、本実施例では、排油電磁弁17の切替が「開」と「閉」の2段階にするものとして説明するが、これに限るものではなく、より多段階とすることもできる。
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- 気体を圧縮する回転体を有する圧縮機本体と、
回転体を圧縮機本体ケーシングに支持する軸受と、
軸受に供給する潤滑油を貯留する貯留部と、
オイルケースから軸受に潤滑油が流通する潤滑油配管と、
前記潤滑油配管を介してオイルケースから軸受に潤滑油を圧送するオイルポンプと、
前記潤滑油配管を流通する潤滑油量を調整する流量制御手段と、
前記回転体に動力を供給する電動機と、
電動機の回転周波数を出力するインバータと、
前記圧縮本体の吐出圧力を検出する圧力センサと、
前記圧力センサの検出圧力に対応する前記軸受の荷重及び前記インバータの出力する回転周波数に対応する前記回転体の回転数から前記軸受への潤滑油供給量を決定し、該潤滑油供給量に基づいて前記流用制御手段を制御する制御部と
を有する気体圧縮機。 - 請求項1に記載の気体圧縮機であって、
前記潤滑油配管から前記貯留部に潤滑油が還流する排油配管を備え、
前記流量制御手段が、二方電磁弁であり、
前記排油配管に、該二方電磁弁が配置されるものである気体圧縮機。 - 請求項2に記載の気体圧縮機であって、
前記流量制御手段が、前記電動機の動力によって駆動するものである気体圧縮機。 - 請求項1に記載の気体圧縮機であって、
前記流量制御手段が、前記電動機とは異なる他の電動機によって駆動するものである気体圧縮機。 - 請求項1に記載の気体圧縮機であって、
前記制御部が、
前記圧縮機本体が吐出す圧縮気体の圧力に対応する前記軸受の荷重及び前記インバータの出力する回転周波数に対応する前記軸受の回転数に応じた前記軸受への潤滑油供給量の対応テーブルを予め記憶し、
前記対応テーブルを参照して、前記圧力センサの検出圧力及び前記インバータの出力する回転周波数の少なくとも一方の入力値に対応する潤滑油量に基づいて、前記流量制御手段を制御するものである気体圧縮機。 - 請求項1に記載の気体圧縮機であって、
前記制御部が、特定圧力及び特定風量の吐出気体を得るときの電動機の消費動力で、前記電動機の回転数を増加させ、前記特定圧力よりも低圧且つ前記特定風量より増加した吐出気体を前記圧縮機本体に吐出させる低圧増風運転制御を行うものである気体圧縮機。 - 請求項6に記載の気体圧縮機であって、
前記制御部が、前記低圧増風運転制御時に、前記流量制御弁を制御するものである気体圧縮機。
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