US 12,276,464 B2
Compressor module and compressor module designing method
Hiroyuki Miyata, Hiroshima (JP); Masahiro Kobayashi, Hiroshima (JP); and Kazutoshi Yokoo, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/650,272.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-028518 (JP), filed on Feb. 25, 2021; and application No. 2021-164590 (JP), filed on Oct. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0268526 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. F28D 7/00 (2006.01); F25B 1/10 (2006.01); F25B 6/04 (2006.01); F25B 39/04 (2006.01)
CPC F28D 7/0091 (2013.01) [F25B 1/10 (2013.01); F25B 6/04 (2013.01); F25B 39/04 (2013.01); F28F 2250/08 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A compressor module comprising:
a compressor; and
a high-pressure gas cooler configured to cool gas discharged from the compressor, wherein the high-pressure gas cooler comprises at least two gas cooler split bodies, each of the two gas cooler split bodies comprises:
a high-pressure casing that is formed in a cylindrical container shape extending in a horizontal direction and to which the gas is introduced; and
a high-pressure heat exchange unit that:
comprises heat transfer tubes disposed in the high-pressure casing and extending in a direction of a center axis of the high-pressure casing, and
is configured to cool gas passing through the heat transfer tubes in a single direction orthogonal to the center axis of the high-pressure casing,
the two gas cooler split bodies are disposed in parallel such that respective center axes of high-pressure casings of the two gas cooler split bodies are parallel to each other,
the gas sequentially flows through the two gas cooler split bodies,
the high-pressure gas cooler further comprises a straight tubular-shaped connection portion disposed between the two gas cooler split bodies and connecting the two gas cooler split bodies such that the gas, flowing from an upstream side gas cooler split body of the two gas cooler split bodies to a downstream side gas cooler split body of the two gas cooler split bodies via the straight connection portion, flows in the single direction,
the upstream side gas cooler split body comprises a gas inlet portion through which the gas is introduced from the compressor,
the downstream side gas cooler split body comprises a gas outlet portion through which the gas is discharged to an outside of the downstream side gas cooler split body, and
when viewed perpendicular to a direction of the center axes of the high-pressure casings of the two gas cooler split bodies, the gas inlet portion and the gas outlet portion overlap the straight tubular-shaped connection portion.