Case Study
Ancona Unit 41 Compressor Installation
Nicor Gas Livingston County, IL Harris Group provided detailed design for the installation of a new Solar Mars 90 turbine-driven centrifugal compressor set, capable of moving up to 412 MMSCFD of 600 psig pipeline gas compressed up to 1,245 psig. The new compressor and auxiliary equipment was installed at an existing gas storage facility that rst constructed over 40 years ago, and hadn’t seen any large capital upgrades in more than 20 years. The scope of design work included a new building for the compressor, and supporting auxiliary equipment including a gas aftercooler, blowdown silencer, fuel gas conditioning system, inlet lter separator, and modi cations to the client’s pneumatic ESD system. Additional auxiliary equipment included wastewater storage, compressed air, and hot water syst