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    Gas compressing using oil separation

    The main components of these moto-compressor units are :
    - An oil lubricated screw compressor and its motor.
    - One or more oil separators, an oil cooler, oil filter and oil pump.
    - Control and regulation equipment.
    - Control and power switchboard.

    The motor compressor unit is integrated into the manufacturing process as an "open loop". The compressed gases come from various sources : Helium, carbon dioxide, natural gas, syngas, methane, hydrocarbon and coke gas, etc.

    For very thorough oil separation (maximum content of a few ppb of oil in the gas), AXIMA REFRIGERATION can achieve 3 successive levels of oil separation :
    - Primary separation by gravity.
    - Secondary separation over several stages by cartridge.
    - Final separation over activated carbon filter.

    Some references :


    Air liquide and Linde for the CERN (helium compression), Alstom (nitrogen compression), Elf Atochem Grande Paroisse (ammonia compression), Total (UOP) (hydrocarbon compression).