Absorption Chillers

FAQ Gas Fired Engine Drives
(Variable Speed)

What is gas fired engine drive?

A gas-fired engine drive is an automotive type gasoline reciprocating engine, or turbine adapted to burn Natural Gas.

What sizes of engine drive are available?

Unit sizes are available from 15 kW(20hp) to 150kW(200hp)

How reliable are these units?

With the advances in automotive engineering over the last 25 years, gas engine drives are extremely reliable, and have extended maintenance periods and a long working life.

Where are they used?

Hospitals, Police Stations, Leisure Centers
Buses, and other public service vehicles
Portable air compressors in the construction industry
Fork-lift trucks, and private motor vehicles
Factory air, and refrigeration compressors
Large pumps, and fans

Have can they Possibly save 45 per cent in operating costs?

The Electric/Gas fuel price ratio price ratio that most industrial and commercial customers pay is between 4:1 & 5:1

The drive shaft power available from a correctly sized gas engine drive is the 35% of the power fuel input to its carburetor.

The drive shaft power available from a correctly sized electric motor is 35% at best of the power station fuel input required to generate that power; to distribute it via the national grid, and of course to overcome its motor efficiency.

Although the maintenance costs of gas engine drives are greater than electric motor drives, operating cost savings are achieved because of the massive fuel price ratio differential between electricity and gas for an identical shaft power output.

If a use can be found for the waste heat produced from a gas fired engine drive then even greater operating cost savings will be achieved.

THIS IS MORE COMMANLY KNOWN AS COMBINED HEAT & POWER (CHP)

FAQ Gas Fired Engine Drives (Variable Speed)

FAQ Gas Fired Engine Drives
(Variable Speed)