New Flex-Op™ Compressor Available

Elliott Group has developed a new, configurable compressor arrangement designed to enhance operational flexibility in hydrogen applications. The Flex-Op™ compressor arrangement allows for improved reliability and accessibility to the rotating components, and it incorporates Elliott’s nearly 70 years of proven expertise for hydrogen compression.

“Hydrogen compression requires a large number of compression stages to achieve a reasonable head for a very light gas,” said Dr. Klaus Brun, Elliott’s Director of Research and Development. “With the Flex-Op arrangement of three to four casings, up to 40 impeller stages can fit into a footprint that traditionally only fit up to 10 stages. This shrinks the linear footprint of the compressor section from 40 feet or more to about 10 feet, and offers up to four times the compression capability within the approximate linear footprint of one compressor.”