Turbo blower with magnetic gearbox
A single-stage high-speed turbo blower driven through a canned magnetic gearbox we developed. A standard or explosion-proof motor turns the impeller at high speed, with no shaft seal and no gas leaking to atmosphere.
Why a turbo with a magnetic gearbox
The gearbox lets an ordinary motor drive a turbo impeller at high speed. You get the efficiency of a turbo without being tied to a special high-speed motor.
High efficiency
A turbo impeller moves gas more efficiently than competing technologies, and the machine is sized so its design point sits on a high-efficiency island of the compressor map.
Much smaller footprint
Far less floor space than positive-displacement blowers and multi-stage centrifugal blowers, which helps on skids and in tight plant rooms.
Any motor
Standard, inverter-duty or explosion-proof. The gearbox lets the motor run at its normal speed while the impeller turns at high speed.
Sealed gas path
Torque goes through a sealed can, so there is no shaft seal and no leak path. The blower head carries a phenolic coating for wet or acidic gas.
Where it is used. Biogas, gas compression in general, and air. Tell us the gas and the operating point and we size the machine.
Key features
- Design
- Single-stage high-speed turbo blower
- Drive
- Canned magnetic gearbox, no shaft seal
- Motor
- Any type: standard, inverter-duty or explosion-proof (TEXP)
- Speed control
- Variable speed on a VFD to follow process flow and pressure
- Gas path
- Sealed; blower head with phenolic coating for corrosion resistance
- Rendering
- Illustration only; the final machine depends on your design
Example design point
One real configuration, to show the scale. Every machine is sized to your gas, flow and pressures, so yours will differ.
- Flow
- About 1,500 SCFM
- Pressure
- 1 psig inlet to 8 psig discharge (7 psi differential)
- Impeller speed
- About 22,500 rpm at the design point
- Motor
- 60 hp, inverter duty, explosion-proof (TEXP), 480 V, 3 phase, 60 Hz
- Efficiency
- About 74% at the design point, from the compressor map below
Send your operating point
Gas, flow, inlet and discharge pressure, and motor requirements. We come back with a sized proposal.
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Give us the gas, the pressures, the flow and the duty cycle. We come back with a sized proposal.
- Phone
- Address1396 des Mouettes, Longueuil (QC) J4J 5K2
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