Abstract: A module for a rotor of an electric machine, said rotor being excited by means of permanent magnets and rotating in a liquid medium, wherein the module contains a cylindrical, active part having a plurality of circular, magnetically soft laminations which form a laminated stack and have a central opening for receiving a rotor shaft; wherein at least two permanent magnets protected against the liquid medium are arranged in at least two corresponding cutouts in the laminated stack, the cutouts being formed under a cylindrical circumferential surface of the laminated stack.

Abstract: Compensation for the axial thrust in a pump, in particular a vertical pump, having at least one drive unit and at least one rotary pump unit. In operation of the pump a compensating piston which is axially non-displaceably connected to the shaft of the impeller wheel of the rotary pump unit is subjected to a pressure difference which results from the pump pressure and a lower pressure and from which there is produced a force which is directed in opposite relationship to the axial thrust and which acts on the shaft of the impeller wheel. There are further proposed a method of axial thrust compensation and a method of retrofitting an arrangement for axial thrust compensation to a pump, in particular a vertical pump, and a retrofit module therefore.