Highlights
Highlights
Benefits
- Proven design experience to control pulsation and vibration ensuring high fatigue resistance and low downtime
- Unique frame design eliminates auxiliary crosshead; a highly consolidated crank mechanism enables perfect parts alignment
- In-house fabrication, manufacturing of critical cylinder components, and assembly to ensure highest quality standards
Features
- Modular design enables most capacity in the smallest footprint with up to 12 cylinders on a single frame
- Twin-frame hypercompressor driven by a single motor can fulfill the highest capacity required, even higher than 400 kT
- New patented packing cup and valve can boost performance by containing pressures up to 3,500 bar
Applications
- LDPE
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Overview
Overview
Our LDPE hypercompressor modular design is the simplest way to get the most capacity in the smallest footprint. For the most extreme conditions in all LDPE applications, it ensures higher-efficiency results with low operating costs and easy maintenance over a very long and reliable life.
Frame size/model
PH
PK
Throws
4-24*
4-24*
Max. power**
36,000 kW
72,000 kW
Max rod load
1,450 kN
2,900 kN
Max. speed
310 rpm
310 rpm
* Number of cylinders; up to 12 cylinders in a single frame
** At max. speed and max. number of cylinders
Product Resources
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Case Study
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