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Who Uses The Turbo
Who uses the Hydraulic Turbocharger?
Pump Engineering's Hydraulic Turbocharger has become the most widely used energy recovery device for liquid based processes with over 2,000 units installed in the last 15 years. Among the users of "Turbos" are:
Sea Water Reverse Osmosis Desalination - From 25gpm to 14,000gpm there is a PEI Turbo that will give the owner operator the Lowest Total Life Cycle Cost. Turbos can be used in single stage SWRO plants to reduce high pressure pump discharge pressure or in two stage plants (Brine Conversion) as an interstage pressure booster.
Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis Desalination - PEI LPT Turbocharger is the only energy recovery device specifically designed for low pressure BWRO service. It is used primarily as an interstage pressure booster in two stage system. The LPT has provided dozens of municipal drinking water plants the best possible energy rate plus the advantages of flux balancing and reduced membrane fouling. It is the only practical energy recovery for BWRO plants
Process RO - Wine making, juice concentration, vinegar making, and cheese whey production are just a few of the RO processes that have benefited from turbocharging.
Gas Processing - PEI HPT Turbo is rewriting the plans for Gas Processing plants. With power savings from 50 - 80% (as compared to non energy recovery designs) PEI Turbocharger is fast becoming recognized as the best practical method of energy recovery for GP plants. The turbo's high speed single stage design has overcome the drawback of vapor evolution with the ERD while its integral pump has allowed the replacement of multistage pumps with much less expensive single stage designs.
Ammonia Fertilizer Production - A similar application to natural gas processing, the turbo again reduces the high pressure pump power by 50 - 80%. The results are dramatically reduced power cost and replacement of multistage pumps with inexpensive single stage units.
Condensate Injection - Another application that only PEI's Turbocharger could accomplish. Instead of throttling condensate through a valve for metering and then repressurizing the condensate for inject into a crude pipeline the turbo is used to depressurize the condensate for metering and then repressurizing the condensate for injection, thereby replacing the throttle valve and saving a significant amount of energy.
There are many more potential turbocharger applications in hydrocarbon processing, aqueous ammonia refrigeration, petrochemical processing, etc. Wherever a process fluid needs to be pressurized and depressurized the potential for energy recovery by use of a turbocharger exist. The two streams need not be from the same process of even of similar chemical composition. The process designer's desire to improve the economic performance of his or her design is the first step in the Hydraulic Turbocharger's next new application.
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