Engine-driven power generator with gas-liquid separation unit
Engine-driven power generator includes: a power generation section having a drive shaft connected to a crankshaft; a gas-liquid separation unit provided upstream of the power generation section and having an air inlet port for taking in cooling air, the inlet port being disposed immediately under a fuel tank, the separation unit separating moisture from the taken-in air; and a cooling fan rotatable by the drive shaft to direct the taken-in air into the power generation section.
1. An engine-driven power generator comprising:
a power generation section having a drive shaft connected to a crankshaft of an engine, a fuel tank of the engine being disposed over the power generation section and the engine;
a gas-liquid separation unit provided upstream of the power generation section and having an air inlet port for taking in cooling air, the air inlet port being disposed immediately under the fuel tank, the gas-liquid separation unit separating moisture, contained in the cooling air taken in via the air inlet port, from the air; and
a cooling fan rotatable by the drive shaft to direct, into the power generation section, the cooling air taken in via the air inlet port and having the moisture separated therefrom via the gas-liquid separation unit,
wherein the gas-liquid separation unit has the air inlet port formed in one end portion thereof, and an air outlet port formed in another end portion thereof for discharging the air, taken in through the air inlet port, out of the gas-liquid separation unit,
the gas-liquid separation unit is in a form of a duct formed into a generally annular shape such that the air inlet port and the air outlet port are located adjacent to each other in an upper duct portion of the gas-liquid separation unit, and
the gas-liquid separation unit includes:
a centrifugal separation section provided, in a region of the gas-liquid separation unit between the air inlet port and a lower duct portion, for separating moisture, contained in the air, from the air by centrifugal force; and
a by-weight separation section provided, in another region of the gas-liquid separation unit between the lower duct portion and the air outlet portion, for separating moisture, contained in the air, from the air utilizing a weight of the moisture.
2. The engine-driven power generator of claim 1 , wherein the lower duct portion has a stepped portion opposed to the centrifugal separation section, and the stepped portion has a downward water discharge port formed therein for discharging the separated moisture out of the gas-liquid separation unit.