Improving sustainability – tackling fugitive emissions from reciprocating compressors

Reciprocating gas compressors are used in many applications and their operators demand excellent reliability. Unscheduled downtime that causes a process to be halted can have very significant financial costs for the business. Therefore, most operators employ a proactive maintenance regime to ensure their compressors deliver reliable service between major overhauls.

At the same time, sustainability is an increasingly pressing issue and all major assets have a role to play in reducing their carbon footprint and the resources they consume. In a world that uses numerous gases in industrial applications, compressors play a vital role, and they need to make their contribution to process reliability and sustainability.

To that end, fugitive emissions from gas compressors represent a significant issue for operators, both in terms of sustainability and operational efficiency. While leaks will not result in immediate problems or incur unplanned downtime, they should be addressed at the earliest opportunity.

Vitalii Tatarinov, Product Manager Services Division, explains the relation between the reliability and sustainability of a compressor.

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