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Harnessing untapped capacity reserves

From oil and gas to process industries to power generation, plants across sectors utilize engines and equipment in different ways to serve their respective markets. Yet, all share a common concern. From the moment of commissioning, operators straddle the gap between designed capacity and anticipated demand.

 

Solutions that support a nimble strategic response to market challenges

Battling uncertainty and volatility in their respective markets, companies across industries seek to identify the best way to activate capacity reserves. They need solutions that support a more agile strategic response to the challenges in their respective markets. Innovative retrofits, revamps, and upgrades are the go-to solutions at their disposal to futureproof their investment and realign capacity with their business development priorities.

Capacity optimization also translates into an opportunity to add capabilities that will contribute to a plant’s overall profitability. The range of possible side benefits of capacity-related updates is broad, from enhanced process flexibility and agility to higher energy efficiency to an improved environmental footprint. To ensure they get the most out of a capacity update, plant operators need to determine which capacity solution adds relevant capabilities. 

 

Capacity reserves hide in complex systems

A component nears the end of its service life. A legacy part becomes unavailable. You need more power from your GenSets. Whatever sparks the revisiting of capacity, a change to any part of your system requires a deep understanding of the system’s behavior as a whole in a variety of scenarios. All retrofits and revamps are system solutions. As such, and for best results, they require a holistic approach, OEM-level expertise, and end-to-end capabilities. Which, in turn, makes a one-stop service the most hassele-free option for covering the scope. A complete service solution package, from a feasibility study to the update of manuals and documentation after installation, ensures fast execution and maximum results at minimum cost.

At MAN PrimeServ, we help safeguard your productivity

As a leader in innovative lifecycle enhancements, MAN PrimeServ, we build on our OEM-level system understanding of your application to craft service solutions that add to your competitive edge.

How you benefit

  • A worldwide network providing local field service and engineering skills ensures short distances for support and faster access to workshop facilities
  • MAN PrimeServ’s full-train capability provided as a one-stop service minimizes the cost, complexity, and downtime of retrofit and revamp projects
  • Dedicated engineering and consulting departments leverage the expertise, experience, and rigorous quality control of a leading OEM to deliver excellence in execution, from feasibility study to installation on site
  • Trained and qualified personnel and digital services help you ensure – and maintain – the enhanced level of efficiency
  • Knowledge transfer, training, and certification for operators and technical personnel through the MAN PrimeServ Academy

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Built to fit in

In a customer base as diverse as the industries we serve, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Building on our engineers’ experience, we design, build and install footprint solutions that respect your plant’s exact layout.

A rejuvenating treatment for aging assets

As cost-effective pinpointed interventions, revamps and modernizations activate the sleeping capacity reserves in your configuration to meet current output targets

MAN PrimeServ taps capacity reserves of engine systems, drive trains, rotating equipment, and ancillary systems in:

  • Industrial power generation
  • Industrial gases and products
  • Upstream, midstream, and downstream applications
  • Marine applications

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More capacity for less energy

Policy shifts on nuclear and fossil-fuel burning plants affect legacy power stations’ profitability in a transforming energy landscape. They are far from alone in facing challenges in managing new business models and valuable legacies. Oil and gas and process industries are under increasing pressure to show how their utilization of energy contributes toward greener and cleaner targets. Capacity solutions can contribute to optimizing the environmental footprint

MAN PrimeServ’s portfolio of capacity solutions that boost energy efficiency includes:

  • Drive power increase
  • Backpressure conversion
  • Turbocharger retrofit for GenSets

Enhance flexibility

As dynamics in markets worldwide speed up, lacking flexibility in leveraging capacity comes with potentially profit-draining consequences for players across almost all sectors. Power stations’ ability to feed into grids shaped by intermittent renewable energy hinges on their capability for ramp-ups and efficient partial load operations. Similarly, the operational flexibility of process industries and oil and gas companies benefits from capacity solutions that optimize machine trains for the operation at Best Effciency Point (BEP, for short) while broadening the BEP range.

MAN PrimeServ’s portfolio of capacity solutions that enhance flexibility includes:

  • Thermodynamic optimization
  • Modification of gear type compressors

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The key to getting capacity right

Intimately familiar with your equipment and application, consulting engineers at MAN PrimeServ have the unique insight of an OEM into emerging technologies and performance reserves. This insight, combined with years of hands-on experience with a broad range of applications, informs our feasibility studies. Measuring performance, analyzing processes, and evaluating machines and components, experts az MAN PrimeServ identify capacity reserves, best-efficiency points, and broaden best-efficiency from point to range. Armed with their upgrade recommendations along with returns on investment calculated, you are perfectly positioned to formulate a plan on how to best deliver on recalibrated plant targets.

MAN PrimeServ capacity consulting solutions

  • Engineering studies
  • Feasibility studies
Analyses of the dynamical behavior of the full train

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Identify the capacity solution most suited to boost your profitability

Replace or enhance? Boost output and operational flexibility in a volatile market? Or expand capacity to meet surging demand? Whichever strategy you pursue, our experts at MAN PrimeServ help ensure you meet output and performance targets with confidence.

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