AirCair turbo services
Taking care of your air
Turbomachinery engines can ingest thousands of tons of air each day. Air quality changes over time and harmful contaminants in that air can foul your engines, corrode critical components and degrade engine performance. That means you get reduced power output and lose millions of dollars in lost revenue. So, it is critical to understand what’s in the ambient air around your assets so you can ensure your filtration system is keeping them safe.
Improve your existing system or define the optimal new investment
That’s where our AirCair™ Turbo Services come in. We deliver expertise and insights built on a worldwide network of filtration experts and predictive analytics tools that pull from decades of real-world historical data. Our team will work closely with you to improve existing systems or help define the optimal solution for new investments using our AirCair Services, educational programs like Test & Learn Events, and proprietary Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Analysis tool.
We help along the entire airflow path
Our AirCair Turbo Services help along the entire path of airflow through your turbines… from analysing the ambient air coming in, to selecting the most cost-effective air intake solutions, validating the performance of your existing system and confirming the cleanliness of your engines.
We take care of your air so you can breathe easy knowing that your turbomachinery assets are operating at peak performance with minimal downtime.
AirCair turbo services
Predictive analytics services
PowerEye: Predictive analytics service
- 24/7 monitoring of your ambient site conditions with Camfil's proprietary Air Monitoring Station (AMS)
- Prediction of day-ahead gas turbine power output
- Trends pressure drop and predicts the optimal time to replace your filters
- Predicts the optimal time to offline water wash your gas turbine compressor
- Continuously monitor pressure drop, compressor efficiency and heat rate
Turbine performance analysis
- Evaluation of historical compressor performance and pressure drop trends helps quantify the cost of degradation
- Detailed maintenance recommendations including water wash and filter scheduling, or filtration upgrade
Ambient air services
Air Monitoring Station (AMS)
- Real-time, wireless continuous monitoring of site conditions
- Measures relative humidity, ambient dust concentrations, barometric pressure and temperature
- Easy to install
- Monitor seasonal changes or unexpected events
- Requires standard electrical supply
Air sampling: cassette & cascade impactor
- Provides a snapshot of the contaminants present in the air in 24-72 hours
- Identifies risk to the turbine such as fouling or corrosion
- Easy to use - hassle-free, fully automated equipment
- Helps determine the filtration stages and efficiencies required
- Determines the mass of particles that are present in the air (Cassette)
- Determines the size range of particles in the air (Cascade Impactor)
- Battery operated
- Optional: sulfur by mass; particle count
Site corrosivity analysis
- Measures the level of corrosivity at your site
- Analyzes salt and gases that are present in the ambient air
- Lowers corrosion risk and determines the filtration stages and efficiencies required
- Guides the optimal choice of material for your air inlet system
Environmental assessment
- Reports a complete picture of your site conditions
- Identify risk to the turbine such as fouling or corrosion and operational risk like short filter life
- Choose the right filter efficiency
- Confirm the need to retrofit new filtration or weather protection stages
- Select the optimal cooling/heating system
- Select a solution for the lowest life cycle cost
- Select the best location of the air inlet in a given site
- Enables a root cause analysis of existing issues
System performance services
Full Air Inlet System (AIS) inspection
Perform a periodic health check of your gas turbine air inlet system to ensure that it is meeting performance expectations. Inspection includes:
- Condition of filters, frames, tightness.
- Sealing of gaskets around doors and flanges.
- Working order of dampers, blow-in doors, cooling or heating systems, measurement devices, silencers, etc.
- Cleanliness and damage inspection of coils, etc.
- Noise measurements
- Airflow analysis locates poor or uneven flow in the system.
Plant optimization (PO) site survey
Assess and measure your current system to determine the upgrades that are possible. Survey includes:
- Site and filter house measurements
- Life cycle cost analysis
- Optional: Ambient air services
Filter installation & support
- Training and supervision of your on-site installation crew
- Full installation services
- Stock management and disposal services
Filter performance services
In-depth filter testing
- Tests filters in Camfil's R&D facilities using turbomachinery-specific rigs and equipment
- Verifies a filter's integrity, strength, salt or dust efficiency, hydrophobicity, pressure drop, dust holding, and media condition through the scanning electron microscope (SEM)
- Detailed report showing test procedures and performance during the test duration
- Understand how well your filters are performing and whether an upgrade is needed.
CamLab
- Determines the optimal filtration solution for your local site conditions
- Tests four different filters at once under actual operating conditions at your site location
- The measured parameters are ambient dust concentrations, airflow, pressure drop, filter efficiency, temperature and relative humidity
- Filters are monitored and analyzed for efficiency and pressure drop
- Detailed on site filter testing report showing actual operating conditions, performance evolution over time, comparison of filter combinations, and complete life cycle cost analysis
Clean air services
Downstream particle count
- Measures the air quality upstream and downstream of your filters
- Confirms if your filter solution is sufficient in preventing contaminant bypass
Compressor water wash analysis
- Determines the salt and ion levels present in the water after a gas turbine offline water wash
- Compressor blade analysis validates whether your filter solution is sufficient in preventing bypass
- Optional: evaporate cooling water analysis
Education & Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis
Turbomachinery air filters
Browse through the various bag, panel, compact and cartridge filters