Eccentric
screw pump (1) with a rotor (2) comprising a pump
drive shaft (5) rotating substantially about a fixed axis relative to a
stator (3) in a bearing support (4), which is driven by a
motor drive shaft (6) of a motor (7), a power
train (8) and a feed screw (9) rotating-oscillating in a
screw thread (10) of the
stator (3), wherein the feed screw (9) receives its drive torque via the power
train (8) and the power
train (8) compensates for the differences in the motion sequences of the feed screw (9) and the pump
drive shaft (5), characterized in that an air gap (11) exists between the
motor drive shaft (6) and the pump
drive shaft (5) and that the
motor drive shaft (6) carries a motor-side
coupling half (12) and the pump drive shaft (5) carries a pump-side
coupling half (13),which are connected to each other by means of magnetic forces across the air gap (11) in a torque-transmitting manner, wherein the air gap (11) is penetrated by a seal (14) which hermetically separates the
motor area (15) from the rest of the
progressive cavity pump (1), characterized in that the pump-side
coupling half (13) is cooled by the fluid pumped by the
progressive cavity pump (1), and that the pump drive shaft (5) is mounted on rolling bearings (21, 22), preferably in the bearing housing (4), which can be flowed through in the transverse direction, so that the pumped fluid can reach the pump-side coupling half (13) to be cooled or be discharged from it.