The present invention relates to a shaft seal flushing system for pump, in particular to an auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump.
A centrifugal pump in a chemical process plays an extremely important role in the fields of oil refining and chemical equipment. How to prolong the service life of the mechanical seal is an important subject of our current research. According to the Chapter 1.3 “Sealing performance requirements” of a standard flushing solution and auxiliary metal components of API682 appendix D (standard appendix), the seal should achieve the following requirements:
However, such performance requirements cannot be achieved in practical operation in most cases, there are many reasons affecting the continuous service life of the seal, in which we will focus on an extremely important reason affecting the continuous service life of the seal as below.
The entire large process flow of each oil refining and chemical industry comprises a lot of small and relatively independent processes, and the centrifugal pump as the important equipment is indispensable even in completion of a certain small process. The entire large process flow will be affected if one of the small processes goes wrong. In order to ensure the safety operation of the equipment, it is common to provide two pumps 1, 2 at positions where the centrifugal pumps required in each small process, and arrange the fluid inlets 21/22 and outlets 23/24 of the two pumps in parallel connection by pipelines. When in operation, one of the centrifugal pumps is in operation mode and the other one is standby, i.e., centrifugal pump 1 runs as a main pump, and the centrifugal pump 2 is always kept in good condition for standby. Once the centrifugal pump 1 breaks down, the centrifugal pump 2 is immediately switched into a main pump for operation, and the failure centrifugal pump 1 is to be repaired immediately, then turned into a standby pump after repaired and always kept in good condition, the centrifugal pump 2 then serves as a main pump to operate continuously so as to complete the process tasks of this small process. The centrifugal pumps 1, 2 are both provided in each small process of the entire large process flow, and switched back and forth to ensure that the entire large process flow keeping continuous operation in every moment.
However, it is not as simple as imagined in the actual chemical process. At present, the oil refining and chemical fields have entered deep processing and further developed to deeper processing, this means that the chemical residues are fewer and fewer, and the required process parameters are getting higher and higher accordingly. In this way, the properties and states of the material in flowing state or the stationary state conveyed in the same pump differ a lot. The material in the pump housing and the sealed cavity of the operating main pump are flowing, whereas the material in the standby pump is stationary. The reasons for the difference between them are as follows:
Due to the above reasons, the risk of the seal leakage is always accompanied during switching the main pump and the standby pump, and the mechanical seal is most likely to be damaged. The best way is to make the performance parameters of the material in the sealed cavity of the standby pump in accordance with those of the material in the sealed cavity of the running main pump.
In the prior art, especially in the Chapter “standard flushing solution and auxiliary metal components” of the API 682 Appendix D (Standard Appendix), although a comprehensive seal flushing solution has been proposed, the seal flushing solutions thereof are all flushing solutions aiming at how to protect the running main pump (i.e., the centrifugal pump 1 in the drawings of the description), without a seal flushing solution for protecting the stopped standby pump 2.
A technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump, which is capable of flushing a sealed cavity of a running main running pump and a sealed cavity of a stopped standby pump.
A technical solution employed by the present invention is as follows: an auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump, comprising a main running pump and a standby pump which are provided with a same shaft seal flushing system respectively, the shaft seal flushing system of the main running pump and that of the standby pump being communicated in parallel to form a common shaft seal flushing system.
The common shaft seal flushing system comprises: a first outlet pipe connected to an outlet of the main running pump and a first switch valve provided on the first outlet pipe for switching the flushing fluid, a second outlet pipe connected to an outlet of the standby pump and a second switch valve provided on the second outlet pipe for switching the flushing fluid, and a first fluid guide pipe connected to the outlets of the first outlet pipe and the second outlet pipe, wherein the outlet of the first fluid guide pipe is respectively connected to a flushing fluid inlet on a sealing gland of the main running pump via a third outlet pipe and connected to a flushing fluid inlet on a sealing gland of the standby pump via a fourth outlet pipe.
A coarse filter or an orifice plate is provided on the first fluid guide pipe.
A coarse filter and an orifice plate are provided on the first fluid guide pipe.
A first heat exchanger and a first temperature indicator are further provided on the first fluid guide pipe.
In another exemplary embodiment, the common shaft seal flushing system comprises: a first outlet pipe connected to an outlet of the main running pump and a first switch valve provided on the first outlet pipe for switching the flushing fluid, a second outlet pipe connected to an outlet of the standby pump and a second switch valve provided on the second outlet pipe for switching the flushing fluid, a hydrocyclone separator connected to the outlets of the first outlet pipe and the second outlet pipe, a second fluid guide pipe connected to a clean fluid outlet of the hydrocyclone separator and a third fluid guide pipe connected to a sewage outlet of the hydrocyclone separator, wherein an outlet of the second fluid guide pipe is respectively connected to a flushing fluid inlet on a sealing gland of the main running pump via a fifth outlet pipe and connected to a flushing fluid inlet on a sealing gland of the standby pump by a sixth outlet pipe, and the third fluid guide pipe is respectively connected to an inlet of the main running pump by a seventh outlet pipe and a third switch valve provided on the seventh outlet pipe, and connected to an inlet of the standby pump by an eighth outlet pipe and a fourth switch valve provided on the eighth outlet pipe.
A second heat exchanger and a second temperature indicator are further provided on the second fluid guide pipe.
An auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump of the present invention has the following beneficial effects:
In conclusion, the auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump of the present invention can keep the fluid material parameters in the sealed cavities of the main and standby pumps remaining same at all times, which not only reduces the risk of seal leakage of the standby pump when started or stopped, but also meets the requirements of “Chapter 1.3 sealing performance” in the API682 standard.
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An auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump of the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the embodiments.
An auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump of the present invention is achieved on the basis of the prior art as shown in
In the auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump of the present invention, when the running fluid flowing in the main running pump 1 is the flushing fluid without particles, as shown in
When the pressure difference between the pressure at the outlets 23, 24 of the main running pump 1 and the standby pump 2 and that at the inlets 21, 22 thereof is more than 0.3 MPa, the first fluid guide pipe 7 is provided with an orifice plate 7-2 for controlling the pressure difference between them. If there are a small amount of suspended particles with large particle size in the first fluid guide pipe 7, a coarse filter 7-1 can also be provided in the first fluid guide pipe 7.
Alternatively, the coarse filter 7-1 and the orifice plate 7-2 are all provided on the first fluid guide pipe 7.
When the temperature of the flushing fluid in the first fluid guide pipe 7 is required to be controlled, a first heat exchanger 7-3 and a first temperature indicator 7-4 can also be provided on the first fluid guide pipe.
The operation process of the auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump of the present invention is as follows: when the main running pump 1 is in operation, the first switch valve 3 is opened and the second switch valve 4 is closed, the flushing fluid flows out from the outlet 23 of the main running pump 1 and then enters into the flushing fluid inlet on the sealing gland 10 of the main running pump 1 after successively passed through the first outlet pipe 5, the first switch valve 3, the first fluid guide pipe 7 and the fourth outlet pipe 9, the fluid enters into the mechanical sealed cavity and approaches to an end of the friction pair for flushing, and then enters into the main running pump 1 after passed through the mechanical sealed cavity. Meanwhile, the flushing fluid flows out from the outlet 23 of the main running pump 1 and then enters into the flushing fluid inlet on the sealing gland 11 of the standby pump 2 after successively passed through the first outlet pipe 5, the first switch valve 3, the first fluid guide pipe 7 and the third outlet pipe 9, the fluid enters into the mechanical sealed cavity and approaches to an end of the friction pair for flushing, and then enters into the standby pump 2 after passed through the mechanical sealed cavity.
In the above operation process, the main running pump 1 and the standby pump 2 can be used interchangeably, i.e., the standby pump 2 serves as a main running pump while the main running pump 1 serves as a standby pump, and the operation process is as mentioned above.
In another exemplary embodiment of the auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump of the present invention, when the flushing fluid flowing in the main running pump 1 contains suspended particles with high density, the common shaft seal flushing system as shown in
The operation process of the above auxiliary shaft seal flushing system of a centrifugal pump and an axial flow pump of the present invention is as follows: when the main running pump 1 is in operation, the first switch valve 3 and the third switch valve 16 are opened and the second switch valve 4 and the fourth switch valve 18 are closed, the flushing fluid flows out from the outlet 23 of the main running pump 1 and then enters into the hydrocyclone separator 13 after successively passed through the first outlet pipe 5 and the first switch valve 3 for separation, and the separated clean fluid without large particles enters into the flushing fluid inlet on the sealing gland 10 of the main running pump 1 after successively passed through the second fluid guide pipe 12 and the fifth outlet pipe 19; the fluid enters into the mechanical sealed cavity and approaches to an end of the friction pair for flushing, and then enters into the main running pump 1 after passed through the mechanical sealed cavity. Meanwhile the separated flushing fluid enters into the flushing fluid inlet on the sealing gland 11 of the standby pump 2 after successively passed through the second fluid guide pipe 12 and the sixth outlet pipe 20, the fluid enters into the mechanical sealed cavity and approaches to an end of the friction pair for flushing, and then enters into the standby pump 2 after passed through the mechanical sealed cavity. The separated sewage fluid containing a large amount of suspended particles with high density flows back to the inlet 21 of the main running pump 1 through the third fluid guide pipe 14.
In the above operation process, the main running pump 1 and the standby pump 2 can be used interchangeably, i.e., the standby pump 2 serves as a main running pump while the main running pump 1 serves as a standby pump, and the operation process is as mentioned above.
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