A rendering of the new GE Roots Advanced Compressor, developed and tested at the GE Roots facility in Connersville. The next-generation compressor will help in energy efficiency for plants with wastewater, fertilizer, air and gas, or chemical operations. (Provided)
A new compressor being developed by a Connersville facility could soon increase the energy efficiency for industrial air and gas, along with wasterwater, operations across the globe.
GE Oil and Gas announced Tuesday that it is developing a next-generation Roots advanced efficiency centrifugal compressor, with the goal of boosting energy efficiency for companies involved in wastewater treatment or industrial air and gas.
According to a statement released Tuesday by GE, the new compressor – known as the The Roots Advanced Compressor – would build “on more than 90 years of Roots compressor technology.”
GE labels the new compressor as being more efficient than turbo blowers and fans, while also being designed to be integrated in existing systems at wastewater or air and gas plants without the plant having to reconfigure its systems.
The most important feature of the compressor however, according to GE, is that it can improve energy efficiency by roughly 5 percent or more for such wasterwater and air and gas operations. Compression energy can be responsible for about 60 percent of the cost of plant operations, according to GE, making it a logical area to focus on for energy efficiency.
“The advanced Roots compressor is a major step in the evolution of our centrifugal compressor technology,” said Daniela Sozanski, Roots global product line manager for GE Oil & Gas, in Tuesday’s statement. “GE has made significant investment to combine efficiency with robustness and longevity at a challenging time when efficiency is more important than ever.”
The compressor was designed, according to GE, by melding both compressor and gas turbine technology, and can also be used chemical processing and fertilizer plants. It was developed and tested at GE Roots in Connersville.
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