Energy recovery pump device.

摘要

An energy recovery pump turbine for use in Industrial processes in which a fluid is pumped at a high pressure to the process and at least a portion of the fluid is discharged from the process at a high pressure. A turbine (25) is positioned to receive the high pressure discharge from the process. The turbine (25) has an impeller (59) positioned on a shaft (61) and the discharged fluid engages the impeller (59) and causes the impeller (59) and shaft (61) to rotate. A pump (29) is positioned adjacent to the turbine (25) to receive the fluid being pumped to the process. The pump has an impeller (57) mounted on a shaft and the shaft of the pump is operatively connected to the shaft of the turbine (59). Rotation of the turbine shaft (61) causes the impeller (57) of the pump to rotate whereby the pump assists in supplying the fluid under pressure to the process and to recover energy from the high pressure fluid discharged from the process.