LNG plant compressors: chilling goes electric?
Electric motors were selected, in lieu of industry-standard gas turbines, to power the main refrigeration compressors at three of the four new LNG projects that took FID in 2024. Hence…
Compressor costs: a simple overview?
This data-file aims to give a helpful, basic overview of the world of compressors. The global market is c$40bn per year, growing at a 3% CAGR, which may accelerate in…
LNG plant compression: gas drives vs electric motors?
…be recirculated and provide further cooling. Energy economics are built up from first principles in our overview of LNG liquefaction technologies. Refrigerant compression is traditionally achieved via large centrifugal compressors,…
Established technologies: hiding in plain sight?
…blue hydrogen and even putting CCS stacks on ships, with moderate modifications of otherwise mature technology. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2021/10/21/carbon-capture-how-big-is-the-opportunity/ (9) Compressors. Moving more gas molecules rather than coal molecules, moving more CO2…
LNG liquefaction technologies: an overview?
…LNG plants will have lower energy use. But the clearest opportunity to lower Scope 1&2 CO2 intensity of an LNG plant is electrifying the compressors, and sourcing lower carbon electricity….
CO2 compression: stranger things?
CO2 is a strange gas. This matters as energy transition will require over 120 GW of compressors for 6GTpa of CCUS. This 13-page note explains CO2 compression and CO2’s strange…
Pressure ratings: industrial and energy processes?
…to be higher. For example, moderate pressures of about 60-bar are routinely used in gas pipelines, methanol plants and in the cryogenic turbine compressors feeding cryogenic air separation plants or…
US gas transmission: by company and by pipeline?
…and for 3,200 compressors at 640 related compressor stations. $899.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart This data-file aggregates data for 40 large US gas transmission pipelines, covering 185,000 miles, moving the…
Renewables: can oil and gas assets “demand shift”?
…place constantly, but compressors may have spare capacity to dial up and dial down their activity over a period of days-weeks, as long as the overall volume of CO2 injection…
Demand shifting: electrical flexibility by industry?
…booms. In industrial gases, there is also a fascinating shift underway, where pressuring swing adsorption (using compressors and vacuum pumps, note here) is much more flexible than cryogenic plants that…