First liquid tolerant Centric Reciprocating Compressor enabled to Pump (CRCP)

Descripción del proyecto

Tecnología sin precedentes para abordar urgencias en el ámbito energético

Los compresores alternativos comprimen los gases mediante una combinación de movimiento giratorio y lineal (alternativo). Brindan múltiples ventajas sobre otros tipos de compresores y se emplean de forma generalizada en el sector de la calefacción, la ventilación y el aire acondicionado cuando se precisa una gran compresión con gases relativamente secos. Hasta ahora, no se han podido utilizar con gases húmedos. El proyecto CRCP, financiado con fondos europeos, preparará su revolucionario compresor alternativo tolerante a líquidos para su comercialización. El perfil de baja energía, baja emisión y bajo mantenimiento del sistema potenciará aún más su impacto en aplicaciones energéticas fundamentales, como el almacenamiento de hidrógeno y la recuperación del calor residual.

Objetivo

Current technologies and products in wet gas compression processes have several deficiencies, most importantly related to existing compressors´ high energy consumption, large size, intolerance to handling liquid; and consequent low energy efficiency, potential erosion, and breakdown. These issues become even more complex in some of the challenging for compression industries such as hydrogen production where particularities of the gas are especially challenging to handle in robust, cost- and energy-efficient manner. In turn, limitations of current compression systems prevent the large-scale deployment of hydrogen technologies. OTECHOS liquid tolerant Centric Reciprocating Compressor enabled to Pump (CRCP) project aims to mature and commercialise our breakthrough innovative centric reciprocating compressor – first cost-efficient liquid tolerant compressor combined with pumping action that addresses all the shortcomings of the existing wet gas compression solutions. It is a third to half size smaller than other compressors currently on the market, does not require additional drying units, as well as oil- and valve-free. Additionally, CRCP is being able to operate low speed, securing robust operation, while requiring low maintenance and having a low footprint. CRCP offers to its customers the annual energy savings of minimum 30% and up to 45% less CO2 emissions and reduction of operating costs by 35% in comparison to competing solutions. In broader scale, commercialisation of CRCP will significantly contribute to the EU Green Deal 2030 targets on improving energy efficiency by 5 TWh by 2030 (0.5 % contribution to EU-wide 2030 target) and cutting in greenhouse emission by 4 million tonnes CO2-eq (0.2 % contribution to EU-wide 2030 target). As such, CRCP is the first energy- and cost-efficient compression solution to enable large-scale deployment of efficient and sustainable wet gas compression in industry.