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Applications

The application of Turblex centrifugal compressors, blowers, instrumentation and controls falls into two major areas:

Wastewater Aeration
The biological wastewater aeration process requires large volumes of low pressure (5 - 20 psig) air. Notably, wastewater aeration consumes about 60 percent of the total power of the entire wastewater treatment plant. Likewise, air demand varies throughout the day. The Turblex unit, with its ultra-high efficiency and variable air discharge of 45 to 100 of percent capacity, is ideally suited to this application. Turblex aeration blowers can significantly reduce power (operating) costs versus competitive units, or by replacing existing blower equipment.

Industrial Process
Turblex/Siemens Turbomachinery Equipment A/S single-stage centrifugal compressors are widely used in utility flue gas desulphurization and yeast fermentation. Siemens Turbomachinery Equipment GmbH compressors are used industry-wide in the petroleum and continuous processing industry, while Schiele turbo fans are the industry leader in mechanical vapor recompression. Coupled with Turblex's instrumentation and packaging expertise, these units are the industry leaders in efficiency, reliability, and performance.


Aeration
The process occurring in a large tank (cell),
where compressed air is piped through an air
manifold at tank bottom, and passes through
aeration diffusers. The diffusers create small
bubbles to maximize oxygen transfer into the
water. This process provides oxygen to the
biological microbes in the wastewater that eat
the dissolved organic matter, thereby creating
settleable organic solids.
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Blowers
For the purpose of this website, and generally
in municipal wastewater treatment, blowers are
the unit that provides low pressure compressed
air for aeration, grit removal, and air.
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Centrifugal Compressors
For the purpose of this website, a dynamic
machine in which one or more rotating impellers,
usually shrouded on the sides, accelerate the gas.
Main flow is radial.
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Compressors
For the purpose of this website, compressors are
defined as centrifugal units that, via an
internal rotating impeller housed in an
appropriate casing, raise the differential
pressure from atmospheric, to a minimum of four
(4) psig.
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Efficiency
A relative comparison of the power savings of
various types of equipment, i.e., “this blower
is more efficient. It is dangerous to try and
calculate the percent efficiency of equipment, as
there are many different basis (i.e., isentropic,
polytropic, mechanical, etc.). Rather, use
actual resultant horsepowers at specific operating
conditions for comparisons of various items of
equipment.
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Instrumentation
Primary sensing devices, which detect physical
characteristics of a process (i.e., temperature,
pressure, level, vibration).
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Multi-Stage
A centrifugal compressor (horizontally or
vertically split), whereby air passes through
two or more stages of compression and expansion,
before discharge.
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Power Savings
The power saved by installing a more energy
efficient piece of equipment.
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Single-Stage
A centrifugal compressor, whereby air passes
through one stage of compression and expansion.
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Turndown
The range of variable capacity (output) while
maintaining stable operation (not surging).
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Turbo
For the purpose of this website, a
turbocompressor is one in which the impeller
rotates at a faster speed than the driver (i.e.,
has a speed increasing gearbox positioned
between the driver and the impeller shaft).
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