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Debunking the Myth: Embracing Gearboxes for Enhanced Efficiency in Compressor Applications

Myth: Avoid a Gearbox at All Costs for Compressor Applications

Klaus Brun is the Director of R&D at Elliott Group. He is also the past Chairs of the Board of Directors of the ASME International Gas Turbine Institute and the IGTI Oil & Gas applications committee. Rainer Kurz is the Manager for Systems Analysis at Solar Turbines Incorporated in San Diego, CA. He is an ASME Fellow since 2003 and the chair of the IGTI Oil and Gas Applications Committee.

Debunking the myth on methane leakage in the oil and gas industry. Gas gathering reciprocating compressors are a major source of methane.

Myth: Methane Leakage Cannot Be Avoided

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Bridging the Gap With Mobile Power: The March/April 2023 Print Release

MYTH: LOGDEC….WHO STOLE MY DAMPING?

January/February 2023

Handbook 2023

Closed loop compressor performance test comparisons

MYTH: AN ASME PTC-10 TYPE 1 IS BETTER THAN A TYPE 2 TEST

Myth: We Can Quickly Make More LNG

Klaus Brun and Rainer Kurz talk about summer electricity price gouging assumptions

Myth Busters