Following and extended tendering process, Quartzelec’s Rugby Rotating Machine Services business has been awarded a contract to manufacture and supply a spare main loop compressor motor for a chemical plant in the USA.
The new machine is from the
company’s UNIPAK ‘heritage’ range of
cage induction motors, rated at 7,000HP,
on frame size CC710U2000 and will
run on the local industrial 13.2kV, 60Hz
supply.
The motor is required to be air-cooled via
a NEMA WP-II enclosure with side-mounted
filtration units fitted to reduce the ingress of
any small particles into the motor’s internal
air circuit.
The design engineers based in Rugby,
UK, have extensive experience in enhancing,
updating and modifying original machine
specifications and, for this particular
machine, were able to update and adapt
the air-filter design allowing the filters to
be easily removed and replaced whilst the
motor is in operation – which will result in
significantly reduced downtime and lower
ongoing maintenance costs for the client.
The compressor motor build is in
progress, with the delivery of the new motor
scheduled later this year