Ingersoll Rand commitment to Majuba
4th Quarter 2015
Pneumatic systems & components
Ingersoll Rand is playing a pivotal role in ensuring that Eskom’s Majuba plant in Mpumalanga has sufficient compressed air to ensure continuous operation. Majuba is the power utility’s second largest plant with an installed capacity of 4110 megawatts and there are 21 Ingersoll Rand Centac centrifugal compressors installed onsite.
These compressors, which vary from 16 to 125 m³/minute capacity, are used to service Majuba’s compressed air requirements, primarily process air and dust conveying air. To ensure optimum running of the centrifugal compressors, Ingersoll Rand now has a dedicated team of six seconded to the utility’s site in a full time capacity. The team is responsible for all maintenance, service and repairs. In addition to the Rand Centac compressors, Ingersoll also services an additional 84 non-Ingersoll Rand products onsite, including 63 dryers, and is responsible for the continuous optimum running of these products.
Service sales engineer and key accounts manager, Neo Kuhn says that although the average compressor lifetime is around five years, with correct upkeep and proper service intervals it is possible to increase its longevity. Ingersoll Rand removes and overhauls small compressors every three years and large ones every five years. “We have a number of smaller units that achieve five years or more before an overhaul and larger units that have reached a seven year milestone,” he adds.
Neo points out that the Centac compressors provide Eskom with several advantages that others do not. These include the ability to provide a constant flow, quick demand compression and efficient production of the required volumes of compressed air.
For more information contact Neo Kuhn, Ingersoll Rand, +27 (0) 11 565 8600, [email protected], www.ingersollrand.com
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