Distributor with separate suction and pressure nozzles for a liquid-ring gas compressor

Claim 1

In a liquid-ring compressor for a pump medium having an operationally horizontal impeller shaft and a distributor having an outside wall separate suction and pressure nozzles and including at least one plane side wall containing one or more pressuRe slots and one or more suction slots adjoining a work chamber of the compressor and an enclosing outside wall and in which, below the pressure slots, the pressure nozzle, and the impeller shaft, a plenum is provided in the distributor for collecting liquids separated from the pump medium, with the pressure nozzle opening into the distributor at a point higher than the pressure slots, an improved distributor arrangement comprising: a. all pressure slots arranged on one side of the impeller shaft and the pressure nozzles on the other side, with the pressure nozzles and pressure slots connected directly with each other through the plenum located below both with the plenum extending across the entire cross-section of the distributor; and b. suction and pressure nozzles opening into the distributor near its top and suction slots in the side wall arranged between first and second internal partitions with the pressure slots arranged between the first partition and the outside wall of the distributor with the first and second partitions connected below the impeller shaft to a wall extending toward the plenum and ending a distance from the bottom side of the distributor.