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Articles: Increasing Fuel Gas Pressure with a Fuel Gas Booster Abraham sworn in as Energy Secretary Bush Place Cheney as Head of Energy Task Force
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Increasing Fuel Gas Pressure with a Fuel Gas Booster Compression System Back to Top Whether or not we choose to listen, energy issues are in our face everyday, screaming to be heard. California’s current electricity shortage, some say spawned by deregulation of utilities, has that state and now neighboring regions in a crisis. Residential and commercial consumers alike are seeking a way to put a freeze on their high energy bills, a result of the cold spell this winter cast on the entire nation. The new White House administration is setting goals of increasing U.S. domestic energy production. For those of us in the energy industry, the impending issues and the cry for viable solutions are unavoidably staring us in the face. Rising fuel costs, deregulation, and environmental concerns are pulling the industry away from more traditional resources and there now appears to be an inevitable push towards forward thinking companies that embrace innovative technology as a way of doing business. Many experts see cogeneration, also known as combined heat and power (CHP), as an immediate and proven energy solution. Cogen’s ability to cut costs and reduce emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases makes it an attractive alternative source for producing electricity. Currently it accounts for only about 7 percent of electricity produced in this country and 6 percent of the worldwide capacity. Countries where it has been pushed such as Sweden, however, are seeing much higher percentages. Sweden uses cogen for 60% of its electrical needs. Realizing the merits of cogeneration both the US and the European Union have pledged to double their cogen capacity by 2010. As a result, sales of cogeneration equipment are expected to reach $10 billion annually by the end of the decade. Speaking in general terms, cogen breaks down into two types of applications---topping and bottoming. Topping involves capturing the waste heat from an electrical generation process (gas turbine, internal combustion engine, fuel cell or steam boiler) and using it in the form of steam or hot water to heat a building or for an industrial process. In the less commonly used bottoming, the steam is first generated for some sort of industrial process and the waste thermal energy is then recovered and passed through a condensing steam turbine to generate electricity, and/or used to heat the building. In cases where the inlet pressure of the fuel supply feeding your turbine must be increased to meet required capacity, a fuel gas booster compression system is implemented. A forward-thinking company, embracing cogen (CHP) technology as an alternative means of producing energy, VR Systems, Inc. has experience packaging fuel gas boosters for a diverse range of installations, including pipeline/utility quality gas, landfill gas, and digester gas streams. VR Systems, Inc. can supply a custom packaged compression and gas refrigeration system if required to increase and dry your fuel supply pressure to the turbine. Whether the fuel gas supplying the turbine(s) for your cogen (CHP) plant is landfill gas, digester gas, pipeline quality gas, or wellhead gas, VR Systems, Inc. can custom package a compression system to increase your fuel supply pressure. VR Systems, Inc. can
accommodate multiple staging, and stainless steel construction for
corrosive applications. While electric motors are most
commonly used for fuel gas boosters, VR Systems, Inc. can utilize a gas
engine driver as required. Reciprocating compressors or rotary screw
compressors will typically provide the most flexibility and horsepower
efficiencies. VR Systems will select the most efficient and economical
unit for your particular design requirements. VR Systems, Inc. fuel gas boosters are mounted
on structural steel or concrete filled skids. In applications that require
gas refrigeration skids, the refrigeration system can also be mounted on
the same skid. To review VR Systems Request for Quote form or for a budget price or firm quote on your fuel gas booster compressor application visit our website: http://www.gascompressor.com/requestquote.htm Click here to view diagrams of several fuel gas boosting applications. Abraham Sworn in as Energy Secretary Back to Top Source: Oil and gas online.com & US Dept. of State International Information Programs President George Bush's nomination for Energy Secretary, Spencer Abraham, was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as Secretary of Energy on January 20, 2001. Abraham shares Bush's views on energy issues and was an outspoken advocate of reduction of US reliance on foreign oil while senator. He pressed for opening the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and federal lands to oil and gas exploration by private companies. Abraham was a deputy chief of staff to vice president Dan Quayle during the earlier Bush administration, and was a key aid to the National Republican Congressional Committee in 1992. He was elected to US Senate from Michigan in 1994, and served office until his November Defeat. Abraham served on the Budget, Small Business, Commerce Science & Transportation, and the Judiciary Committees and was chairman of the Immigration and Manufacturing and Competitiveness Subcommittees. Abraham, age 48, comes into office as the United States faces its biggest energy policy challenges in a decade or more. He will be charged with leading a diplomatic effort with both OPEC and non-OPEC sources to assure a continued flow of foreign oil to the United States, with stepping up development of domestic reserves, and coordination between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. He will likely move quickly to put up at least 1.5 million acres in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas exploration by private companies and begin a program to review currently restricted federal lands and report on which ones could be opened to responsible exploration. "We have vast resources with the United States, and these are crucial to our country's security," Abraham said. "We can make good use of them while at the same time, I believe, meeting our responsibilities as good stewards for the land, the air and the water." Back to Top Bush Places Cheney as Head of Energy Task Force Back to Top Washington (Reuters) - With the nation's growing concern for California's looming energy crisis, President Bush put Vice-President Dick Cheney in charge of a federal task force to fight high energy prices and reliance on foreign oil. Bush said on Monday (1/29) that the task force would deal in part with the short-term crisis of California's electricity shortage, as well as Bush's long-term goal of increasing U.S. domestic energy production such as opening more federal lands for oil and natural-gas exploration. In addition to Cheney, the task force is comprised of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Commerce Secretary Don Evans, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, EPA administrator-designate Christine Todd-Whitman and Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton. Bush said he had asked Cheney to "report back to me and then to the nation (on) how best to cope with high energy prices and how best to cope with reliance upon foreign oil, how best to encourage the development of pipelines and power-generating capacity in the country so that we can help our fellow citizens."Back to Top Gas Compressor AssociationSixth Annual Expo & Conference SWANA 24th Annual Landfill Gas Symposium |
Above: Fuel Gas Boosting Compressor for Sweet Pipeline Quality Gas, Location: San Diego, California. Design Conditions: 150-345 PSI (3.845 MMSCFD); Process: Sweet Pipeline Quality; Package Description: (3) 100% units on common skid, 250 HP electric motor driven Ariel JGQ-2 reciprocating compressors.
Above: Fuel Gas Boosting Compressor for Landfill Gas, Location: Illinois. Design Conditions: 12.6-286 PSI (3.2 MMSCFD); Process: 39% CO2, 58% CH4, 2.4% H20; Package Description: Compressor packages (6) each consisted of two electric motor driven Mycom rotary screw compressors. Stage 1 had a 400 HP electric motor driven Mycom rotary screw compressor and Stage 2 consisted of a 600 HP electric motor driven Mycom screw compressor. Inlet vane pack separator at wellhead manifold to remove excess liquids, 304 SS construction. 304L SS scrubbers, piping, and oil/gas separators. After compression gas entered a 2 micron element discharge filter/separator, with 304 SS construction. Gas passed through a VR Systems re-heater to keep gas temp. 10 degrees above the dew point prior to entering the turbines. All vessels were fabricated by VR Systems, Inc.
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