【Major Industrial Equipment in the Chemical Industry】052 – Domestic production of compressors for long-distance natural gas pipelines

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The past decade has been a period of rapid development in China’s chemical industry, marked by the emergence of many new processes, products, and equipment. There has also been significant progress in China’s chemical processing equipment, which has contributed to the swift advancement of the petrochemical sector. Here, we have compiled some of the achievements and breakthroughs made by Chinese equipment manufacturers in terms of larger-scale production and greater use of domestic equipment. We invite everyone to share their insights and discuss these topics together; let’s cheer for Made in China and support the development of chemical processing equipment! *********************************** In June 2018, the EB80 type compressor units for long-distance natural gas pipelines, developed by Xi’an Shanggu Power Co., Ltd. (referred to as Shanggu Power), passed the scientific and technological achievement appraisal organized by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation. The evaluation team unanimously agreed that the overall performance indicators of this unit are at the leading level in China, with key technical parameters such as compressor efficiency and operating range having reached the international advanced level. This represents the independent development of large-scale pipeline compressor technology and its subsequent manufacturing in our country. It not only signifies that Shaanxi Gas Turbine Power has broken through the foreign monopoly on the core technologies related to compressors for natural gas mainline and branch pipelines, thereby acquiring the capabilities to design, manufacture, test, and service such compressor units, but it also lays a solid foundation for advancing the localization of key equipment used in natural gas pipeline transportation in our country as well as for technological progress in this field.