Our Torquetronic Continuous Duty Torque measurement system is the recognised industry standard for accurate power measurement of turbo machinery in the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical industries.
First introduced in 1974 we have over 900 installations globally, accumulating in over 50 million operating hours, across multiple applications delivering unrivalled reliability.
Up Stream:
- Oil & Gas fields
- Offshore production platforms
- Re injection (Water & Gas)
Mid Stream:
- Transportation & Storage
- Pipeline transmission (Gas & Oil)
- LNG
- Gas to Liquids (GTL)
Down Stream:
- Oil Refinery
- Petrochemical plants / ethylene / Methanol
- Fertilisers
Why Operators measure power:
- Economic & Environmental pressures (Nox) in the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical industries are driving demand to increase efficiency of operation and increase "availability" of equipment to maximise return on investment.
- Operators need to efficiently identify performance deterioration & define optimum operating range for plant operation.
- Condition based maintenance programs are replacing maintenance based on operating hours, i.e. 25000 hrs.
- Torque measurement can be a key component in improving performance.
Typical torque measurement applications:
- Works test - base-line performance definition.
- Commissioning & Acceptance testing.
- Define compressor operating envelope.
- Machinery performance monitoring.
- Condition monitoring strategy.
- Re-vamp testing ~ example, re-wheeled compressor test.
- Mechanical protection.
- Process control.
- A combination of some of the above.
Benefits of torque measurement versus Thermodynamic calculation
- Allows correlation between Shop and Field tests for machinery acceptance.
- Provides data for the development of "condition based" maintenance strategies.
- Provides data to improve efficiency, which will reduce fuel costs and NOX emissions.
- Provides data to prevent "under nomination" of the high value capital plant used in gas transmission.
- Provides baseline data for long term health monitoring of critical equipment.
Global End User & OEM acceptability.
Machine Makers include:
End Users Include:
Torquetronic standard turbo machinery designs:
GE Nuovo Pignone Frame 3, Frame 5, Frame 6, Frame 7 PGT10, PGT16, PGT25, PGT25+, Steam Turbines Rolls Royce RB211, AVON, Trent Siemens SGT200, SGT400, SGT600, steam turbines MAN THM1304, FT8, Various Steam Turbines Solar Centaur 50, Taurus 60/70, Mars 90/100, Titan Dresser Rand Vectra MHI Wide range of Steam Turbines
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