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Oil and Gas Markets
Turbomachinery
Control Solutions, LLC has experience with control retrofits on numerous gas
turbines and reciprocating engines in oil and gas production, including
onshore and offshore applications.
Below is a list of
typical gas turbine applications and control modes. The list is not meant
to be all-inclusive, but rather an overview of applications, which
TurboControls can provide expertise and proven product solutions.
Gas Turbines
- Aeroderivative
- Industrial
- Single or Multishaft
Driven Equipment
Loads
- Centrifugal Compressors
(single or multiple stages, series or parallel operation)
- Axial Compressors
- Blowers
- Pumps
- Synchronous or Induction
Generators
Control Strategies
- Extensive diagnostics and
fallback strategies to assure uninterrupted operation in the event of
a transducer or transmitter failure
- Start permissives
- Startup and shutdown
sequencing
- IGV and VBV control
- Acceleration control
- Speed/Load control PID’s
- Process control PID’s
- Warm / cold turbine
start-up settings
- Temperature limiting
- Overspeed protection
- Overspeed test features
- Exhaust heat recovery
- Alarms and Monitoring
Mechanical Drive
Control Features
- Speed or Droop control
- Cascade PID control loops
- Remote setpoints
- Compressor Surge
avoidance
- Compressor loading
- Compressor loading
sharing
- Suction or Discharge
Pressure Control
- Flow control
Generator Drive
Control Features
- Automatic / manual
synchronization
- Isochronous / Droop
control
- Parallel Isochronous
control
- Loadsharing and
loadshedding system
- Import / Export control
systems
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