PACKAGE-STORAGE TYPE ENGINE GENERATOR

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a package-storage type engine generator, and in particular relates to improvement of an upper structure of a package-storage type engine generator.

BACKGROUND ART

Conventionally, a package-storage type engine generator is known, in which engine intake and exhaust system components are provided in an upper portion of a package (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In Patent Document 1, an upper chamber and a lower chamber is partitioned by a middle wall. The upper chamber includes an intake chamber in which an intake silencer is disposed, an exhaust chamber in which an exhaust silencer is disposed and a radiator chamber in which a radiator is disposed. The lower chamber includes an engine chamber in which an engine and the like are disposed and a device housing chamber. That is, in the upper chamber, the radiator chamber and the intake/exhaust chamber are partitioned by a partition wall, and furthermore, the intake/exhaust chambers are divided into the intake chamber and the exhaust chamber by a partition wall.

A ventilation hole is disposed in a position corresponding to a bottom part of the middle wall of the exhaust chamber. The ventilation hole is opened to the engine chamber. Thus, ventilation air from the engine chamber enters the exhaust chamber via the ventilation hole. The ventilation air that enters the exhaust chamber flows into the radiator chamber via a louver disposed on the partition wall.

Also, another package-storage type engine generator is publically known, which has a configuration in which a radiator chamber having a ventilation outlet in an upper surface thereof is disposed above an engine chamber so that ventilation is performed by a radiator fan (see, for example, Patent Document 2). In Patent Document 2, a ventilation hole, which communicates the engine chamber with the radiator chamber, is disposed in the middle wall that partitions the lower engine chamber and the upper radiator chamber. Through the ventilation hole, a ventilation pipe extends upward and downward. A waterproof member is fixed to the middle wall so as to surround the ventilation pipe. Thus, a ventilation passage is made up of the ventilation pipe and the waterproof member. Like this, by constituting the ventilation passage from the ventilation pipe and the waterproof member, it is possible to prevent rainwater from directly entering the engine chamber when the rainwater enters the radiator chamber via the ventilation outlet disposed in the upper portion of the package.

PRIOR ART DOCUMENTS
Patent Documents

[Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent No. 5303183

[Patent Document 2] JP H05-340304 A

SUMMARY OF INVENTION
Problem to be Solved by Invention

However, in the configuration as recited in Patent Document 1, when the ventilation is performed using the radiator fan in the radiator chamber, the ventilation air from the engine chamber enters the exhaust chamber via the ventilation hole. Then, the ventilation air that has entered the exhaust chamber flows into the radiator chamber via the louver disposed in the partition wall. Thus, the flow resistance of the ventilation air may increase, which results in increase of the pressure loss of the ventilation air.

On the other hand, Patent Document 2 discloses a configuration in which the lower engine chamber directly communicates with the upper radiator chamber. Also, it includes the ventilation passage made up of the ventilation pipe and the waterproof member downstream of the ventilation hole, so that the ventilation passage can prevent rainwater and the like from being blown. In order to prevent the rainwater and the like from being blown through the ventilation hole, it is necessary to provide a labyrinth structure so as to have a sealing function between the ventilation pipe and the waterproof member. Thus, it may result in, similarly to the case in Patent Document 1, the increase in the pressure loss of the ventilation air.

In consideration of the above circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide a package-storage type engine generator in which intake/exhaust system components of an engine are disposed in an upper section thereof, which is capable of reducing a pressure loss in a ventilation passage from an engine chamber to a radiator chamber.

Means for Solving Problem

The present invention was made in consideration of the above problems. In the present invention, a package-storage type engine generator includes: a package partitioned into an upper section and a lower section; an engine and a generator both disposed in the lower section; a radiator chamber and an intake chamber partitioned and disposed in the upper section; a radiator and a radiator fan both disposed in the radiator chamber; an intake silencer disposed in the intake chamber; and a ventilation hole configured to directly communicate the radiator chamber with an engine chamber in which the engine and the generator is disposed. The ventilation hole is displaced from the radiator fan in a long-side direction of the package. A ventilation hood covers above and around the ventilation hole. An outlet opening of the ventilation food is formed in a position displaced in a short-side direction of the package so as to face the ventilation hole.

In the present invention, the ventilation hole is displaced from the radiator fan in the long-side direction of the package, and the ventilation hood covers above and around the ventilation hole. Furthermore, the outlet opening of the ventilation food is formed in a position displaced in the short-side direction of the package so as to face the ventilation hole. Thus, even when the rainwater enters the radiator chamber of the package from the above of the radiator fan, it is possible to prevent the rainwater from directly entering the ventilation hole, and to ensure the air passage by the ventilation food. Therefore, the ventilation air in the engine chamber flows into the ventilation passage to smoothly enter the radiator chamber, which enable to reduce as much as possible flow resistance of the ventilation air and to reduce pressure loss of the ventilation air that flows into the ventilation passage from the engine chamber to the radiator chamber.

Effects of Invention

In the present invention, the ventilation hole is displaced from the radiator fan in the long-side direction of the package, and the ventilation hood covers above and around the ventilation hole. Furthermore, the outlet opening of the ventilation food is formed in a position displaced in the short-side direction of the package so as to face the ventilation hole. Thus, even when the rainwater enters the radiator chamber of the package from the above of the radiator fan, it is possible to prevent the rainwater from directly entering the ventilation hole, and to ensure the air passage by the ventilation food. Therefore, it is possible to reduce pressure loss of the ventilation passage from the engine chamber to the radiator chamber.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[FIG. 1]

FIG. 1 are front views of a cogeneration system according to an embodiment. FIG. 1(a) is an internal structure view thereof, while FIG. 1(b) is an external view thereof.

[FIG. 2]

FIG. 2 are back views of the cogeneration system according to the embodiment. FIG. 2(a) is an internal structure view thereof, while FIG. 2(b) is an external view thereof.

[FIG. 3]

FIG. 3 are right side views of the cogeneration system according to the embodiment. FIG. 3(a) is an internal structure view thereof, while FIG. 3(b) is an external view thereof.

[FIG. 4]

FIG. 4 are left side views of the cogeneration system according to the embodiment. FIG. 4(a) is an internal structure view thereof, while FIG. 4(b) is an external view thereof.

[FIG. 5]

FIG. 5 are plan views of the cogeneration system according to the embodiment. FIG. 5(a) is an internal structure view thereof, and FIG. 5(b) is an external view thereof.

[FIG. 6]

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of an upper structure.

[FIG. 7]

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view viewed along arrows A-A in FIG. 6.

[FIG. 8]

FIG. 8 is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing a main part of the upper structure.

[FIG. 9]

FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of an upper/lower partition member and a ventilation hood of the upper structure.

[FIG. 10]

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the upper/lower partition member and the ventilation hood.

[FIG. 11]

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view of the upper/lower partition member.

MODES FOR CARRYING OUT INVENTION

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the appended drawings. FIGS. 1 to 5 are respectively front views, back views, right side views, left side views and plan views of a cogeneration system 1 according to this embodiment. FIGS. 1(a) to 5(a) are internal structure views thereof, while FIGS. 1(b) to 5(b) are external views thereof.

In this embodiment, description will be given on a case in which the present invention is applied to the cogeneration system 1. The cogeneration system 1 is a system configured to: electrically connect a commercial power system of an external commercial power supply and a generation power system of a generator 12 to a power transmission system for power consuming devices (load) so as to cover a demand power of the load; and recover waste heat accompanying power generation so as to use the recovered waste heat. That is, the cogeneration system 1 has, in addition to a power generation function outputting a power generated by the generator 12 driven by an engine 11, a function that recovers, by an engine waste heat recovery unit 23, waste heat of cooling water that is circulated by an engine coolant circuit 13 and that is heated by heat exchange with waste heat of the engine 11 (i.e., in this embodiment, the function that recovers the waste heat of the cooling water for use in supplying hot-water).

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, the cogeneration system 1 according to this embodiment includes a package 2 as a housing formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. The package 2 can be divided into an upper section and a lower section by an upper/lower partition member 32 that is disposed above the middle of the package 2 in the vertical direction Z and that partitions the package 2 into the upper section and the lower section. On the lower side (in the lower section) of the package 2, an engine chamber 3 and a device housing chamber 4 are disposed, while on the upper side (in the upper section), an intake chamber 5 and a radiator/exhaust chamber 6 are disposed. A partition wall 7 partitions the lower section into the left section and the right section as the engine chamber 3 and the device housing chamber 4.

(Engine Chamber)

The engine chamber 3 is disposed on one side of the package 2 in the long-side direction X (in this embodiment, on the left side in FIG. 1(a) and on the right side in FIG. 1(b)). In the engine chamber 3, the generator 12 is disposed on one side in the long-side direction X relative to the engine 11 as the center. The generator 12 is driven by rotary drive of the engine 11.

As the engine 11, for example, a gas engine is adopted. The engine 11 is started by mixing fuel gas with air. Then, the generator 12, which is disposed consecutively with the engine 11, is driven by the rotary drive of the engine 11. As shown in FIGS. 1(a), 2(a) and 4(a), in the upper periphery of the engine 11, the following are disposed: the engine coolant circuit 13 that cools the engine by circulating the cooling water; and an exhaust gas heat exchanger 14 that exchanges heat between exhaust gas discharged from the engine 11 and the cooling water from the engine 11.

(Device Housing Chamber)

The device housing chamber 4 is disposed on the other side of the package 2 in the long-side direction X (on the right side in FIG. 1(a)). In the device housing chamber 4, a controller box 17 and an operation unit 18 are disposed on one side of the package 2 in the short-side direction (front-back direction) Y (in this embodiment, the front side) (see FIG. 1(a)). The controller box 17 includes a controller 15 that controls engine drive devices and engine waste heat recovery devices. The operation unit 18 operates electrical devices. Also, in a right side surface 2c of the package 2, a controller box ventilation hole 17a is formed at a position corresponding to the controller box 17 so as to introduce the outside air to the controller box 17 (see FIG. 3(b)). In a front surface 2a of the package 2, the operation unit door 18a is disposed at a position corresponding to the operation unit 18 so as to operate the operation unit 18 (see FIG. 1(b)).

An inverter 19 is disposed on the other side of the package 2 in the long-side direction X (see FIG. 3(a)). Also, in the right side surface 2c of the package 2, an inverter ventilation hole 19a is formed at a position corresponding to the inverter 19 so as to introduce the outside air to the inverter 19 (see FIG. 3(b)).

A terminal unit 16 (terminal block) is disposed on the other side of the package 2 in the short-side direction Y so as to wire the electrical devices. A ventilation fan 21 is disposed in a lower portion on the other side of the package 2 in the long-side direction X so as to suck the outside air into the engine chamber 3 (see FIG. 2(a)). Also, in the right side surface 2c of the package 2, an engine chamber ventilation hole 21a is formed so as to introduce the outside air into the engine chamber 3 (see FIG. 3(b)).

A sub-oil tank 25 and a reserve oil tank 26 are disposed in the middle of the package 2 in the long-side direction X and on the one side of the package 2 in the short-side direction Y (see FIG. 1(a)). Also, the engine waste heat recovery unit 23 is disposed in the middle of the package 2 in the long-side direction X and on the other side of the package 2 in the short-side direction Y so as to recover waste heat of the cooling water that flows from the exhaust gas heat exchanger 14 (see FIG. 2(a)).

Here, description will be given on an upper structure 30 having the intake chamber 5 and the radiator/exhaust chamber 6. FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the upper structure 30. FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view viewed along arrows A-A in FIG. 6. FIG. 8 is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing a main part of the upper structure 30. FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of the upper/lower partition member and a ventilation hood of the upper structure. FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the upper/lower partition member and the ventilation hood. FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view of the upper/lower partition member.

The upper structure 30 includes a frame body 31 in a rectangular parallelepiped shape and a package forming plate to which the frame body 31 is attached. The frame body 31 includes: the upper/lower partition member 32 made of sheet metal constituting a floorboard; portal support members 35 and 35 disposed in a standing manner on both sides of the upper/lower partition member 32 in the long-side direction X; a front horizontal member 33 and a rear horizontal member 34 bridged between the left and right support members 35 and 35; and an intermediate support 36 disposed in the middle of the front horizontal member 33 and the rear horizontal member 34. The intake chamber 5 and the radiator/exhaust chamber 6 are formed and partitioned by, for example, a partition wall 37 made of a metal plate.

(Intake Chamber)

The intake chamber 5 is disposed on one side of the upper structure 30 in the long-side direction X. An air cleaner 40, which purifies air sucked from the outside, is disposed in an upper portion of the intake chamber 5, and an intake silencer 41, which reduces noise of the engine 11, is disposed in a lower portion thereof. In a left side surface 2d of the package 2, an engine intake port 40a is formed at a position corresponding to the air cleaner 40 so as to introduce the outside air to the air cleaner 40 (see FIG. 4(b)).

(Radiator/Exhaust Chamber)

The radiator/exhaust chamber 6 is disposed on the other side of the upper structure 30 in the long-side direction X relative to the intake chamber 5. Specifically, the radiator/exhaust chamber 6 is made by integrating a space for an exhaust chamber 6A located above the engine chamber 3 and a space for a radiator chamber 6B located above the device housing chamber 4. There is no partition wall that divides the exhaust chamber 6A from the radiator chamber 6B. The intake chamber 5, the exhaust chamber 6A and the radiator chamber 6B are arranged in a line from one side to the other side of the upper structure 30 in the long-side direction X.

In the radiator/exhaust chamber 6, a radiator 42 is horizontally disposed in the middle portion in the vertical direction Z so as to radiate the waste heat of the cooling water that is discharged from the exhaust gas heat exchanger 14. The four corners of the radiator 42 are supported in a hanging manner by the support member 35 and the intermediate support 36. In the front surface 2a, a back surface 2b and the right side surface 2c of the package 2, radiator ventilation holes 42a, 42b and 42c are respectively formed at respective positions corresponding to the radiator 42 so as to introduce the outside air to the radiator 42 (see FIGS. 1(b), 2(b) and 3(b)).

Above the radiator 42, a radiator fan 43 is disposed. The radiator fan 43 is driven and controlled by the controller 15 to discharge the air in the radiator/exhaust chamber 6 to the outside, thereby radiating the heat of the radiator 42. The radiator fan 43 is secured to U-shaped frame members 44 that are attached to the front horizontal member 33 and the rear horizontal member 34. In a top surface 2e of the package 2, a ventilation outlet 43a is formed at a position corresponding to the radiator fan 43 (see FIG. 5(b)).

Also, a reserve coolant tank 47 is disposed on the one side of the package 2 in the short-side direction Y so as to supply the cooling water to the engine coolant circuit 13. An exhaust silencer 45 is disposed on the other side of the package 2 in the short-side direction Y so as to reduce exhaust noise when exhaust gas is discharged to the outside (see FIGS. 1(a), 2(a), 5(a) and 6). In the top surface 2e of the package 2, an exhaust outlet opening 45a is formed at a position corresponding to the exhaust silencer 45 (see FIG. 5(b)).

On the upper/lower partition member 32, there is a space between the reserve coolant tank 47 and the exhaust silencer 45. In this space, a ventilation hole 48 is formed so as to communicate the engine chamber 3 with the radiator/exhaust chamber 6. The ventilation hole 48 is disposed in a position displaced from the radiator fan 43 in the long-side direction X of the package 2. A ventilation hood 50 is disposed above the ventilation hole 48.

The ventilation hood 50 covers above and around the ventilation hole 48. An outlet opening 50a of the ventilation hood 50 is formed in a position displaced from the ventilation hole 48 in the short-side direction Y of the package 2 so as to face the ventilation hole 48. In this way, the ventilation hole 48 directly communicates the engine chamber 3 with the radiator chamber 6B (radiator/exhaust chamber 6).

The ventilation hood 50 is a box whose bottom surface is opened, and includes: a front wall 51 and a rear wall 52; side walls 53 and 53 connected to the front wall 51 and the rear wall 52; and a top wall 55. The top wall 55 is inclined downward toward the front.

Lower ends of the rear wall 52 and the side walls 53 and 53 are engaged and secured to a convex part 48a projected from an edge of the ventilation hole 48. The front wall 51 is located forward relative to the ventilation hole 48. A lower end of the front wall 51 is separated apart from the top surface of the upper/lower partition member 32 at a predetermined interval.

A partition plate 56 is projected upward from a front end of the ventilation hole 48. The partition plate 56 partitions the inside of the ventilation hood 50 into a front section and a rear section. A top end of the partition plate 56 is separated apart from an inner surface of the top wall 55 at a predetermined interval. Thus, the ventilation hood 50 and the partition plate 56 constitute a ventilation passage 58 that communicates the ventilation hole 48 with the radiator/exhaust chamber 6. The ventilation passage 58 is formed by a first ventilation passage 58a that communicates with the ventilation hole 48 and a second ventilation passage 58b that opens to the radiator/exhaust chamber 6.

The ventilation hole 48 is disposed in a position displaced from the radiator fan 43 in the long-side direction X of the package 2. Furthermore, the ventilation hood 50 covers above and around the ventilation hole 48. Thus, rainwater that enters from the ventilation outlet 43a hardly enters the ventilation hole 48. For this reason, it is possible to sufficiently enlarge the opening of the ventilation passage 58 for ventilation.

On the upper/lower partition member 32, a rainwater draining part 60 is disposed facing the radiator 42. The rainwater draining part 60 has a downward inclined shape from the center portion to an outer edge portion of the package 2. Specifically, the rainwater draining part 60 is an upward convex part made of a part of the upper/lower partition member 32 by machine processing. The rainwater draining part 60 is constituted by: a top inclined wall 61 inclined so as to gradually lowers toward the other side in the long-side direction X; a front inclined wall 62 and a rear inclined wall 63 extended respectively from a front edge and a rear edge of the top inclined wall 61; and a side wall 64 extended downward from a topmost edge of the top inclined wall 61. The radiator ventilation holes 42a, 42b and 42c are formed in respective positions having substantially the same height as the position of the upper/lower partition member 32.

In the above-described cogeneration system 1, when the operation is started, fuel gas is supplied to the engine 11 while air sucked into the intake chamber 5 is supplied to the engine 11 via the air cleaner 40 and the intake silencer 41, thus the engine 11 is started. When the engine 11 is started, exhaust gas discharged from the engine 11 passes through the exhaust gas heat exchanger 14 and the exhaust silencer 45 for noise reduction, thus is discharged from the upper portion of the package 2 to the outside.

Meanwhile, the cooling water that has cooled the engine 11 passes through the engine coolant circuit 13 so as to be supplied to the radiator 42 and/or the engine waste heat recovery unit 23. The radiator 42 radiates the waste heat of the cooling water supplied to the radiator 42. The engine waste heat recovery unit 23 recovers the waste heat of the cooling water supplied to the engine waste heat recovery unit 23. Then, the engine cooling water is returned to the engine 11 after passing through the engine waste heat recovery unit 23 and/or the radiator 42.

The ventilation fan 21 and the radiator fan 43 are driven to ventilate the inside of the package 2. That is, in the sections of the engine chamber 3 and the device housing chamber 4, the air (ventilation air), which is sucked into the package 2 via the engine chamber ventilation hole 21a, flows into the device housing chamber 4 and the engine chamber 3. The ventilation air from the engine chamber 3 flows upward and enters the ventilation hood 50 via the ventilation hole 48. The ventilation air that entered the ventilation hood 50 further flows upward in the first ventilation passage 58a of the ventilation passage 58, then flows downward in the second ventilation passage 58b guided by the top wall 55. The ventilation air is discharged from the outlet opening 50a and thrown out into the upper/lower partition member 32, thus enters the radiator/exhaust chamber 6. The ventilation air in the radiator/exhaust chamber 6 cools the radiator 42 and then is discharged from the ventilation outlet 43a to the outside air.

In this embodiment, the ventilation hole 48, which communicates the engine chamber 3 with the radiator/exhaust chamber 6, is provided. Thus, the engine chamber 3 is directly communicated with the radiator chamber 6B. Furthermore, the ventilation passage 58 is formed by the ventilation hood 50. Therefore, the ventilation air in the engine chamber 3 flows into the ventilation passage 58 to smoothly enter the radiator chamber, which enable to reduce as much as possible flow resistance of the ventilation air and to reduce pressure loss of the ventilation air.

Also, when the rainwater enters the inside of the package 2 from the ventilation outlet 43a , the rainwater passes through the radiator fan 43 and the radiator 42 so as to be dropped on the top surface of the rainwater draining part 60. The rainwater dropped on the top surface of the rainwater draining part 60 flows over the top inclined wall 61, the front inclined wall 62 and the rear inclined wall 63 of the rainwater draining part 60, i.e., flows from the center portion to the outer edge portion of the package 2. Thus, the rainwater is drained to the outside from the radiator ventilation holes 42a, 42b and 42c formed respectively in the front surface 2a, the back surface 2b and side surface 2c of the package 2.

The present invention may be embodied in other forms without departing from the gist or essential characteristics thereof. The foregoing embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not limiting. The scope of the invention is indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all modifications and changes that come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are intended to be embraced therein.

This application claims priority based on Patent Application No. 2014-063047 filed in Japan on Mar. 26, 2014. The entire contents thereof are hereby incorporated in this application by reference.

DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS

1 Cogeneration system

2 Package

2
a Front surface

2
b Back surface

2
c Right side surface

2
d Left side surface

2
e Top surface

3 Engine chamber

4 Device housing chamber

5 Intake chamber

6 Radiator/exhaust chamber

6A Exhaust chamber

6B Radiator chamber

7 Partition wall

11 Engine

12 Generator

13 Engine coolant circuit

14 Exhaust gas heat exchanger

15 Controller

21 Ventilation fan

21
a Engine chamber ventilation hole

23 Engine waste heat recovery unit

30 Upper structure

31 Frame body

32 Upper/lower partition member

33 Front horizontal member

34 Rear horizontal member

35 Support member

36 Intermediate support

37 Partition wall

40 Air cleaner

41 Intake silencer

42 Radiator

43 Radiator fan

43
a Ventilation outlet

45 Exhaust silencer

48 Ventilation hole

50 Ventilation hood

50
a Outlet opening

51 Front wall

52 Rear wall

53 Side wall

55 Top wall

56 Partition plate

58 Ventilation passage

60 Rainwater draining part

61 Top inclined wall

62 Front inclined wall

63 Rear inclined wall

64 Side wall

X Long-side direction

Y Short-side direction

Z Vertical direction

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