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Air Products takes advantage of a broad experience base in gas processing to provide our customers with expansion equipment for many applications. Typical projects using CryoMachinery's expanders include:
- Air, nitrogen or oxygen expansion for air separation plants.
- High -efficiency expander retrofits to reduce plant operating costs and/or increase production.
- Single-shaft, expander/process compressor units that reduce plant compression power requirements.
- Generator-loaded expanders for power recovery on new or existing processes.
- High-speed, high-efficiency turbo expanders for helium, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide.
- Hydrocarbon expanders for power recovery and gas processing applications.
- Shaft-mounted or direct-coupled expanders on multi-stage process compressors.
- Dense fluid expanders to efficiently and reliably replace J-T valves.
| Fluid |
Air, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, helium, natural gas, various hydrocarbons, and any gas mixture |
| Power |
5 to 8,000 hp
(3.7 to 5,965 kW) |
| Speed |
Up to 100,000 rpm |
| Flow |
20 to 5,000 inlet ACFM
(35 to 8500 m³/hr) |
| Inlet Pressure |
25 to 1,400 psig
(1.4 to 98.5 kg/cm²g) |
| Temperature |
-450°F to +500°F
(–268°C to +260°C) |
| Loading Devices |
Process compressor
Generator
Oil or air brake |
| Impellers |
2 to 20 inch (50–500 mm)
open or closed impellers of aluminum, stainless steel or titanium | |
| Seals |
Close-clearance abradable labyrinth, carbon face (non contacting |
| Nozzles |
Fixed or adjustable, with zero clearance for high efficiency |
| Rotor Dynamics |
Stiff or flex shaft |
| Bearings |
Oil bearings: Fixed geometry or tilting pad or combinations
Gas bearings: Thrust and journal
Ball Bearings: Angular contact |
| Accessory Systems |
Various lubricating, seal gas, and control systems are available. The systems can be provided separately or can be skid mounted with the machinery. | |
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