Abstract: A screw compressor with two rotors held in a rotor housing has sealing arrangements 11, 11? to seal the pressurized side shaft pin of the rotors, wherein each sealing arrangement has a number of successive radial seal rings 11a, 11b and wherein it contains an annular relief chamber 51 at an intermediate position that is connected by means of a vent channel 53 to a chamber in the rotor housing in which a pressure is present that is higher than atmospheric pressure. It is preferred that the vent channel be connected to the intake chamber 10 of the rotor housing 1 and that this intake chamber be fed by a gas that is pre-compressed by a compressor stage.

Abstract: The invention relates to the rotor housing (1) of a helical screw compressor which is surrounded by a cooling housing (21, 23, 25) which forms a cooling chamber (27) which surrounds the rotor housing (1) in an annular-shaped manner, said cooling chamber being intercepted on a point by a separating wall (29) which connects the rotor housing (1) to the cooling housing (21). The coolant, which is guided to an inlet (31), is oriented counter to the lower side of the separating wall (29) through a perpendicular inlet channel (35) which flows in an upward direction, is deviated there and flows about the rotor housing (1) until the upper side of the separating wall (29), where it is deviated again and is discharged to the outlet opening (33) through a perpendicular outlet channel (37) which extends in an upward manner.

Abstract: A two-stage screw compressor has two compressor stages whose rotor housings are arranged with their axes parallel to one another and are enclosed by a common coolant housing at a distance. A coolant inlet and a coolant outlet are located at the common coolant housing, as well as guide walls such that the coolant flowing through the coolant housing flows around and cools the rotor housings of the two compressor stages one after the other in an S-shaped flow path.