WHAT GAS BOOSTER DO YOU NEED?
If your gas system requires the gas pressure to be increased using a Gas Booster then there are two questions that need addressing:
- What is the volume of gas per unit time? (measured as cubic metres per hour)
- What is the uplift in pressure required? (measured in milibar)
The uplift is the additional pressure you require above the pressure that the gas arrives at. Normally natural gas is transported into a building at 20 milibar. If a burner requires 70 milibar to operate effectively then you will need the Gas Booster to provide 50 milibar of additional pressure lift. Usually this information is available from the burner manufacturer's literature.
Knowing the volume and the pressure uplift required you can now select the gas booster required using our Gas Booster Selector.
Secomak packaged Gas Boosters
Most people will require our packaged Gas Boosters. These include all the necessary parts to confrom to the Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers IGEM/UP/2 Edition 2 Communication 1729.
The parts in addition to the Gas Booster itself are:
- Remote stop and start circuits
- Pressure switches to monitor inlet and outlet pressures
- All above are pre-wired requring only connection to electrical supply and mechanical connection to pipe work.
- Flexible nipples
- Pipe flanges
- Anti-vibration mounts
- Non return valve
Duty Standby or Standalone Gas Boosters Systems
Many Gas Boosters are installed where constant gas supply is critical. This include hospitals and hotels. In this case it is usual to install two Gas Boosters in a duty standby (duplex or redundancy system arrangement. Our duty standby systems comprise of two packaged Gas Boosters including the necessary circuitry, nipples, flanges, anti-vibration mounts and non return valves. The system also includes an auto changeover control unit and an installation kit. This unit will detect if the functioning unit fails and automatically transfer over to the standby Gas Booster. The system will also give an electronic signal if one of the units should fail.
Bio Gas
Secomak Gas Boosters are used for Biogas pressure lift and we are not aware of any problems in practice. However Biogas has different composition and if the gas contains high percentages of hydrogen sulphide and moisture we recommend that the bearing assembly is changed annually rather than the more normal 5 years.
Installation Service & Commissioning
Secomak Ltd can offer installation and commissioning in the UK through an external Gas Safe trained engineer, for more detail please contact our sales department
at sales@gas-boosters.com or telephone +44 (0) 208 732 1300.