I Have been Operating the Big Iron for 40 Years it gets into your Blood.. Cooper Bessemer, Clark, Ingersol Rand, Dresser Rand, Worthington, National Transit, Snow, Cat, Just to name a few, I like them all, Thanks for the Video.
I switched jobs and don't work with anything slow speed anymore unfortunately. We do have new Cats in our field though, 5000hp units. I will have to get a vid of them one of these days. Thanks for the comment!
+Imperiatus I no longer work at that plant but maybe a buddy of mine will chime in here and tell us. The new plant I'm at is all electric drives, not nearly as fun.
+Levi Willis We've got a GMXF at one of our other plants too. Do you know anything about the GMX models? They have a scavenging air piston built into the crosshead. The GMXD model, the air intake goes into the crankcase, then through ports in the crank, that come out at each comp. A port carries the air up into the crosshead, where a piston compresses the air.On the GMXF model, there are 2 air intakes: one goes into the crosshead, like on the GMXD, but it also has a turbocharger. So a separate intake to the scavenging air compressor. The scavenging piston is really only functional during startup. Then the turbo takes over.
I was a machinist in the 70's making there and 48 inch Natural gas / jet powered gas compressors. It was a wonderful time in my past.
That brings a whole new meaning to big block V8
I Have been Operating the Big Iron for 40 Years it gets into your Blood.. Cooper Bessemer, Clark, Ingersol Rand, Dresser Rand, Worthington, National Transit, Snow, Cat, Just to name a few, I like them all, Thanks for the Video.
I switched jobs and don't work with anything slow speed anymore unfortunately. We do have new Cats in our field though, 5000hp units. I will have to get a vid of them one of these days. Thanks for the comment!
Ill look that up for you. These compressors have been at our plant since the 70s. The third engine came from a ship.
Nice to see, worked for Cooper in the 70s-80s .
They are great engines, very low maintenance.
+Levi Willis What is the actual designation on the engine plate?We have GMVA's and GMXD's at our gas plant.
+Imperiatus I no longer work at that plant but maybe a buddy of mine will chime in here and tell us. The new plant I'm at is all electric drives, not nearly as fun.
+Levi Willis We've got a GMXF at one of our other plants too. Do you know anything about the GMX models? They have a scavenging air piston built into the crosshead. The GMXD model, the air intake goes into the crankcase, then through ports in the crank, that come out at each comp. A port carries the air up into the crosshead, where a piston compresses the air.On the GMXF model, there are 2 air intakes: one goes into the crosshead, like on the GMXD, but it also has a turbocharger. So a separate intake to the scavenging air compressor. The scavenging piston is really only functional during startup. Then the turbo takes over.
+Imperiatus We have GMVH-10 at our plant.
Nice GMV.
Pretty damn amazing !! One thing goes amuck and the whole system shuts down I assume.
Looks like a GMV twogreek
@DZBLND This is one of many compressors this size at out plant. :)