Compressors
Maximize FCC main air blower and wet gas compressor capacity
Maintaining optimum performance is crucial for sustained profitability
HP Reliability: Avoid unnecessary developments
Innovative thinking is appropriate in the hydrocarbon processing industry, and tremendous forward movement has occurred over the past 30 years. Innovation is to be commended, unless we invent or disco..
Braskem-Idesa picks GE compressor technology in Mexico ethylene, PE venture
The Veracruz ethylene and polyethylene (PE) complex in Mexico, a joint venture between Brazil’s Braskem and Mexico’s Grupo Idesa, will use hyper compressor and booster compressor technologies from GE. The GE technologies will be key elements of the low-density polyethylene (LPDE) plant.
Dresser-Rand HOSS compressors help secure energy supply
Underground storage facilities are crucial to the security of energy supply, and a key to balancing the supply and demand in natural gas consumption between the summer and winter months. Additionally, natural gas in storage also functions as insurance against unforeseen accidents or natural disasters.
Operational optimization for mixed-refrigerant systems
Use rigorous simulation to improve process efficiency
Williams investigates fire, resulting damage at US gas compressor station
Williams Partners is assessing damage at its Lathrop natural gas compressor station in Susquehanna County, Pa., following a Thursday morning fire at the facility. All employees and contractors at the facility were accounted for and there were no injuries. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Siemens to supply compressors for air separation plant in China
Siemens Energy will supply together with its Chinese joint venture SITHCO (Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Huludao Co. two pre-engineered integrally geared compressors for an air separation plant to China. The plant will go online in early 2013. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Treat oily waste with decanter centrifuge plants
Turning a challenge into an opportunity
Innovative APC boosts LNG train production
APC application yields significant operability, economic benefits
Consider lobe blowers combined with compressors
New blower meets low-pressure applications cost-effectively
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