Modernization of 50-year-old compressor station produces savings for NGPL

Journal Article · Mon Mar 17 04:00:00 EST 1986 · Oil Gas J.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5769899

Ward, C

Modernization of Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America's 50-year-old compressor Station 108 at Truro, Iowa, will save NGPL about $450,000/year in fuel costs and reduce maintenance expenses. Station modernization, which began in 1983 and was completed the following summer, was part of a longterm construction program designed to increase the efficiency of NGPL's mainline system from Beatrice, Neb., to Chicago, Truro's 10 horizontal engines - half of them more than 50 years old - were replaced with 3 highly efficient, fuel-saving 5,500-hp Cooper-Bessemer vertical engines. Five of the old horizontals were 1,750-hp Worthingtons which had accumulated 1.6 million operating hr since installation in 1931. The other five units replaced were 1.750-hp Cooper-Bessemers installed in 1948. The new supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at Station 108, designed by NGPL with Digital Equipment computer and Texas Instruments programmable logic controller (PLC), is as advanced as the engines it monitors.

• Research Organization: Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, Lombard, IL
• OSTI ID: 5769899
• Journal Information: Oil Gas J.; (United States), Journal Name: Oil Gas J.; (United States) Vol. 84:11; ISSN OIGJA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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