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Centrifugal Compressors for Air Separation Units
While air may be free, the air separation process is not. Producing industrial gases requires a great deal of energy, making the need for an efficient compressed air system critical to plant success.
To produce industrial gases such as purified nitrogen or oxygen, atmospheric air is compressed, cooled, and separated in a distillation column or cold box. Once the cryogenic separation is complete, the gases are used in other processes or compressed for storage and transportation.
The gases produced during this process can be used in a variety of areas, including the production of chemicals and petrochemicals, liquefaction of natural gas (LNG), clean, dry air for electronics manufacturing, production of synthetic liquid fuel from coal (CTL) or natural gas (GTL), integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants or liquefaction of nitrogen for distribution. As a key component of the separation process, compressed air systems at air separation plants must be reliable and energy efficient to maintain low operating costs.
FS-Elliott’s comprehensive product portfolio and engineering capabilities provide competitive solutions for highly customized as well as standard projects.
Every FS-Elliott compressor is customized specifically for your operational and environmental requirements to help reduce energy consumption. By offering superior operating life-cycle costs, FS-Elliott compressors allow customers to quickly gain their return on investment.
The flexibility of FS-Elliott air compressors makes them ideal for serving various roles in an air separation plant, including main air compressors (MAC), booster air compressors (BAC), booster nitrogen compressors (BNC), nitrogen gas compressors (GAN), and clean compressed dry air compressors (CDA). Additionally, FS-Elliott can provide multiple process combinations, such as MAC/BAC, MAC/BNC, and MAC/GAN. By offering superior operating life-cycle costs, FS-Elliott compressors allow customers to quickly gain their return on investment.
FS-Elliott’s higher capacity compressors are designed specifically to fulfill the role of the MAC with optimized aerodynamic efficiency.
Further increases compressed air from the MAC and provides countercurrent stream for evaporation.
FS-Elliott compressors can serve as nitrogen gas compressors or booster nitrogen compressors for your air separation unit.
Learn how an industrial gas producer reduced capital expenditures and increased overall efficiency.
An industrial gas producer opened a new air separation plant that required 4440 Nm3/h of air and 2100 Nm3/h of gaseous nitrogen for production.
Due to the modular design of the plant, the compressors selected for the project needed to be minimal in size but capable of high-efficiency gas production.
Customer reduced capital expenditures and increase overall efficiency by combining the air and nitrogen processes in one machine.
Learn how an industrial gas producer reduced capital expenditures and increased overall efficiency.
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