Oil return for a two-stage compressor having interstage cooling
US5016447A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 2, 1990 |
| Grant date | May 21, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 2, 2010 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02T10/12
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An internally compounded two-stage compressor has an interstage cooler and an oil separator associated therewith. The oil, and any hot gas mixed with it, discharged from the oil separator is passed in heat exchanger relationship with the cooling refrigerant flowing into the interstage cooler.
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