When facing combustion turbine upgrades, power generators should consider all turbine inlet cooling (TIC) technologies, including wet compression, says John Kraft, president of Caldwell Energy Company ...
Gas turbine power augmentation systems such as inlet fogging, evaporative cooling and wet compression have been applied to many units over the past several years. The ability to generate additional ...
Siemens has received a new order for the installation and commissioning of Wet Compression Systems for its eight SGT5-4000F gas turbines installed in the Nubaria, Talkha and Kureimat Power Stations in ...
Statoil ASA STO, along with its partners, Petoro and OMV, has initiated the first wet gas compression in the world. The revolutionary process is being used on the seabed of the North Sea Gullfaks ...
Statoil ASA reported startup of a wet gas compressor in Gullfaks field from the seafloor of the North Sea (OGJ Online, July 6, 2015). The company said the effort will increase recovery by 22 million ...
With last November’s definite decision to choose subsea gas compression rather than a surface support facility for fields in the Aasgard area of the Norwegian Sea, Statoil is set on a path which ...
Back in the early 2000s, some controversy emerged about the practice of spraying large amounts of fog directly into the compressor. Some claimed that this led to blade erosion, pitting,… ...