The chemical industry is responsible for, converting materials such as oil, natural gas, air, water, metals and minerals into over 70,000 different products. The chemical market consists of base chemicals such as petrochemicals, inorganics, fertilizers and industrial gases; specialty and fine chemicals including agro-chemicals and consumer chemicals. The rise in feedstock prices and natural gas prices has led to chemical companies raising prices sharply. In order to meet the increasing demand from consumers, chemical companies are looking for ways to reduce their operating cost. Many of the standard process within the chemical industry to produce the 70,000 different products can be run more efficiently and with less energy consumption.
As the prime movers are operated outside their rated operation parameters they become less efficient. Turbo Trac offers an Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT) that increases the system efficiency and reduces energy consumption up to 25% on various process applications within the chemical industry. Additionally the IVT system has variable speed control within the unit, therefore there is no need to use unreliable variable speed drives. Some of the applications within the chemical market that could use the IVT are as follows:
Chemical Process Blowers
Diaphragm Compressor Applications
Chemical Metering Pumps
