Reciprocating engine generators can be deployed at oil and gas sites to support the resilience of a facility's operations, help to improve efficiency, and reduce carbon emissions.
Gas and diesel engines can be used for base-load power or for backup generation especially in remote locations where grid power is limited or unavailable. Gas engines also be used as combined heat and power units, to recover heat from the generators for use in boilers or for local processes.
Alternatively, surplus heat can be used in absorption chillers to deliver cooling for refrigeration or air conditioning, a process called trigeneration.
Emissions can be reduced by increasing the efficiency of electricity generation, from the reduction in flaring of waste coal mine gases and by the displacement of diesel as a source of backup power.
Gas engine fuel sources for mining sector
The engines can accept a variety of sources of fuels such as natural gas, coal bed methane / coal seam gas, liquified or compressed natural gas, diesel, and crude oil. If your mining operation has a source of biogas, such as Archean mine methane, this can be used as a source of renewable power.
Possible mining related facilities that can use gas and diesel engines include.
- Virgin coal seams (coal bed methane / coal seam gas)
- Pre-mining gas drainage
- Working mines that require on site power generation.
- Closed coal mines with fugitive methane emissions.
- Furnaces processing ores.
If you would like to learn more about how gas and diesel engines can be deployed at a mining site, please contact us for more information.
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