Atlas Copco ships largest ever custom engineered compressor plant 23 July 2012

Atlas Copco Compressors has delivered its largest-ever UK-designed and built compressor plant – to Kazakhstan.

Comprising instrument and process air compressor modules, worth in excess of £6million, the plant will be used on a large project for the oil and gas industry.

The physical size of the modules, which were custom-engineered at Atlas Copco's Systems Division, in Hemel Hempstead, required an Antonov 124, one of the largest freight transporter aircraft in the world, to meet critical delivery deadlines.

According to Paul Frost, who manages Atlas Copco's Systems Division, the oversize modules had to be fitted with special 'D' rings so that they could be pulled, with just millimetres to spare, into the front loading bay of the aeroplane.

"The completion of this contract, which is the largest to be fully designed and built here in the UK, reflects our ability to produce bespoke and packaged compressed air systems, on time and to budget," states Frost.

The package includes an instrument air module, weighing 42 tonnes and containing ZT55 oil-free screw compressors and desiccant dryers, combined with pre-and after-filtration units.
Three further process air modules were also supplied, each weighing 34 tonnes, containing ZT250 oil-free screw compressors, air handling units and desiccant dryers with pre-and-after filtration.

All four modules were designed and built to operate in extreme ambient temperatures of -40°C to +45°C.

Brian Tinham

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