BROCHURE HBC

BROCHURE HBC

BROCHURE HBC

Product catalog summary
Introduction
Howden BC Compressors, a division of the Howden Group, specializes in custom-engineered compressor packages for heavy-duty applications, known for their reliability, safety, and performance in demanding environments like nuclear and petrochemical industries.

Product Overview
  • Burton Corblin® Reciprocating Compressor Packages: Custom-built for heavy-duty applications, ensuring safety and reliability.
  • Burton Corblin® Piston Compressors: Designed for non-lubricated cylinders, compliant with API 618 standards, ensuring continuous operation.
  • Burton Corblin® Diaphragm Compressors: Provide leak-tight, contamination-free compression, ideal for high purity, toxic, or hazardous gases, featuring a Head Integrity Detection System (HIDS) for safety.

Applications
Howden compressors are utilized in sectors such as:
  • Energy: Power generation, waste gas recovery, hydrogen storage.
  • Aerospace and Defence: High-pressure testing, military applications.
  • Industries & High Tech: Continuous manufacturing lines, specialty gases.
  • Chemical and Petrochemical: Handling extreme pressures and temperatures with corrosive or hazardous gases.
  • Oil and Gas: Solutions for challenging environments.
  • Industrial Gases: High-pressure filling and processing of ultra-high purity gases.

Technical Specifications
Compressor packages meet or exceed industry standards with capabilities including:
  • Pressures up to 250 bar (3,600 psi) for piston compressors and up to 3,000 bar (43,500 psi) for diaphragm compressors.
  • Power up to 2,500kW (3,400 hp) for piston compressors and up to 400kW (540 hp) for diaphragm compressors.
  • Inlet volume capacities tailored to specific applications.

Support and Maintenance
Howden provides comprehensive support including:
  • Maintenance contracts for regular inspections and efficiency optimization.
  • OEM spare parts and subassembly repairs matching original specifications.
  • Troubleshooting and global expertise access for problem-solving.

Conclusion
Howden BC Compressors offers engineered solutions with a lifetime commitment to maintenance and upgrades, ensuring optimal performance and longevity of their compressor packages.
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BROCHURE HBC-1

BURTON CORBLIN > RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR PACKAGES FOR HEAVY DUTY APPLICATIONS >

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Burton Corblin > compressors bring together our exceptional knowledge and understanding of the propertiesof gases under pressure, our expertise in fluid dynamics, our engineering skills and our worldwide on-site support and technical backup to provide assurance in the most critical situations. > BURTON CORBLIN:A BRIEF HISTORY Over 120 years ago, William Burtonstarted a workshop building pumps and air compressors at Nogent-sur-Oise,60kM north of Paris. Around thirty years later, Henri Corblininvented the metal diaphragm compressor which found a growing market in the industrial gas and petrochemical...

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In the chemical and petrochemical sectors, Burton Corblin The oil and gas industries extract and transport fluids in exceptionally challenging environments involving extreme highs and lows of temperature, high humidity and salinity and remote locations both on and offshore. Burton Corblin Many situations, including high presssure filling of gas cylinders and tubes, pressurising gas cartridges for airbags, and the manufacture and processing of ultra-high purity, rare gas and electronic gases, require that the gases must be hermetically isolated from the atmosphere to prevent fire hazard, contamination...

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They are a proven problem-free route to optimum performance and continuous operation in applications as diverse as food processing and hazardous petrochemicals. Pressures up to 250 bar (3,600 psi) Օ Power up to 2,500kW (3,400 hp) Inlet volume up to 20,000m > 3 /h (11,7500cfm) Օ Built to meet or exceed API 618 or industry standards >

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Burton Corblin > ή diaphragm compressors take the principles created by Henri Corblin in 1916 to leading edge levels of effectiveness, providing high compression ratios and high pressures while isolating the process gas completely from the external atmosphere. Pressures up to 3,000 bar (43,500 psi) Օ Power up to 400kW (540hp) Inlet volume up to 200m > 3 /h (117cfm) >

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Every Burton Corblin > compressor package comes with a commitment to maintenance and upgrading that will extend the life of the equipment and improve performance whenever possible. Burton Corblin The use of Burton Corblin > ή parts that exactly match the specifications and parameters of the originals can avoid a host of problems. We keep details of your installation on file so that we can check, before they leave us, that the spares we send are the ones you need. Similarly, when we repair or replace a subassembly or design an upgrade, we can optimise it precisely to your requirements. From the...

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