Oil-free

Turbomachinery
with active magnetic bearing technology

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Active magnetic bearings
Enabling oil-free turbomachinery

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Active magnetic bearings (AMB) are electromagnetic,
mechatronic systems used to maintain the relative position
between a machine’s rotating assembly (rotor) and
stationary components (stator) After more than 30 years of
collaboration, we signed a new
Advantages of AMB over traditional oil bearings partnership in 2016 based on
exchange, development, and growth.
• No contact friction or components wear It lets Baker Hughes use SKF’s leading
• No oil lubricant or Lube-oil system required, no flushing magnetic bearing technologies from
• Compact skids and footprint, weight reduction front-end engineering design to
installation, testing, and service. The
• Lower mechanical losses partnership also provides the basis
• Environmentally friendly solution for future collaboration, to widen the
• Proven solution with high reliability and availability scope of AMB application to other
turbomachinery.
• Longer asset life and light maintenance
• Enhanced built-in machine monitoring capabilities
• Ready for unmanned operations, remote analysis, big data Image courtesy of
SKF S2M Magnetic Bearings

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Baker Hughes oil-free products with AMB
Turboexpanders Centrifugal compressors
• More than 30 turboexpanders • 5 compressor units on AMB developed in early 1990s
manufactured so far • Zero-emission ICL motocompressor system
• 5 AMB sizes for turboexpander developed in 2006, and over 50 ICL units sold since
frames 20 to 60 • Blue-C subsea moto compressor full scale
• NACE compliant applications demonstrator fully tested in customer facilities in 2015
for sour gas • 10+ high-speed, oil-free motocompressors with AMB
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for offshore applications delivered to date

Turboexpander High-speed, direct-drive (HSDD) ICL

motocompressor

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Baker Hughes: AMB pioneer

First centrifugal First turboexpander First ICL integrated First integrated First offshore First single-stage Full oil-free First large
compressor on AMB built and motocompressor subsea high-speed ICL qualification offshore project turboexpander
on AMB tested built and tested motocompressor motocompressor delivered and with 7 with 240 mm AMB
internal tests equipped with full-load tests motocompressors built and tested
AMB delivered completed and 2
First ICL-LV (Low
turboexpanders
Voltage, 330 kW)
equipped with
built and tested
AMB

1987 2001 2006 2010 2014 2015 2019 2020

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Oil-free, high-speed motocompressors
Compact AMB-motocompressor compatible with sour process gas

Compact and light Oil-free

• Footprint reduction up to 50% • Enabled by AMB technology
• Weight reduction up to 50% • Removing oil consumption and
• High-speed, direct-drive (HSDD) associated oil spill or fire risks
AMB, air-cooled solution
• Elimination of lube-oil console, Low noise
gearbox, and low-speed coupling • Elimination of gearbox (key noise
from package contributor in conventional package)
Compressor and high-speed driver in separate casings

Compatible with sour and High operational flexibility

severe gas • Wider operating range (up to 30-
• No specific limitation vs. gas 105% speed) Oil-free, high-speed
corrosive contaminants • High efficiency due to reduced
motocompressor

• NACE-compliant applications for mechanical losses

sour gas • Always ready to start (no oil system Conventional
start-up required) motocompressor

Perfect fit for large-scale LNG • Solution ready for unmanned

and pipeline applications operation

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ICL: Integrated Compressor Line
Compressor and high-
speed driver embedded in
same pressurized casing

Compact Low noise

• Footprint reduction up to 50% • Typical reduction of 3 dB(A)
• High-speed, direct-drive and gas- • Encapsulation in pressure-containing
cooled solution casing providing heavy noise
• Elimination of lube-oil console, seal-gas attenuation
panel, and gearbox from package • Elimination of gearbox (key noise
contributor in conventional package)
Zero emission
• Carbon footprint reduction by avoiding High operational flexibility
dry gas seal leakage • Wider operating range (up to 30–105%
(40k Nm /y of natural gas leakage represents ~700t CO2
3 speed)
equiv. for a typical pipeline compression train)
• Efficiency remaining high across full
• Hermetic solution intrinsically safe operating range
without seal gas system risks and
maintenance • Low utility consumption requested (no
N2, limited Air and Low Voltage)
• Unlimited pressurized standstill: no
Oil-free
flaring,, or major auxiliaries running
• Enabled by AMB technology
• Always ready to start: 5 minutes max
• Removing oil consumption and warm-up time Conventional ICL
associated oil spill or fire risks compressor train
• Solution ready for unmanned operation

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ICL-LV (low voltage)
To manage low-pressure wet gas for needs below 1 MW

Compact and light Reduced environmental footprint

• No wear parts involved with centrifugal • Zero leakage solution
stage compression Typical applications
• No nitrogen utility consumption required
• Magnetic bearings enable frictionless • No oil consumption or associated oil spill
rotor rotation or fire risks Recycling of vent gas from
• No need for lube oil system, reducing industrial processes
• Low noise solution due to encapsulation
auxiliaries and compression technology
• No need for dry gas seals and
Valorization of formerly
associated auxiliaries flared associated gas

Compact and maintenance friendly

Decentralized gas
• Easy handling of components gathering
• Cartridge pull-out assembly containing
motor and compressor internals for fast
and easy swap ICL-LV is designed to help energy
industry to reduce emissions and
• Almost no civil work for package
operate more efficiently leveraging
installation above opportunities.
ICL-LV: low-voltage solution with all the benefits of ICL
• Easy integration in transportable
modules

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Oil-free turboexpanders
Simple design exploiting active magnetic bearing’s advantages

Compact and light High operational flexibility

• Compact skid design with • Always ready to start (no oil
simplified system system start-up required)
• Easy to maintain • Solution ready for unmanned
operation
Zero emission for sweet • Wider operating range though
process gas built-in inlet guide vane regulation
• Carbon footprint reduction by Image courtesy of
avoiding dry gas seal (DGS) Adaptability in customer plant SKF S2M Magnetic Bearings
Oil-free expander compressor
leakage integration
• Hermetic solution intrinsically safe • Zero-leakage solution for
with no need of continuous turboexpander-driven compressor
venting/flaring or generator
• Delivering gas pressure energy or
Oil-free electric power depending on
customer needs
• Enabled by AMB technology
• Removing oil consumption and
associated oil spill or fire risks Available with dry gas seal for Oil-free expander generator

harsh environments

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SKF-S2M active magnetic bearing principle
• The magnetic bearing is made of electromagnets (1) that
attract the rotor (2) towards the central rotation axis. It is
contactless with a radial clearance of 0.5 to 1 mm
• The rotor position is measured and controlled by position
sensors (3), through a digital control (5) and power current
amplifiers (4)
• Auxiliary bearings (6): prevents mechanical contact between
the rotor and active parts of the stator
• The active magnetic
bearing is constantly (6)Auxiliary
managed through a feedback bearings
control loop:

Image courtesy of
SKF S2M Magnetic Bearings

• SKF S2M bearings follow the API617 and the ISO 14839
standards dedicated to magnetic bearings. SKF S2M is a
member of both committees With courtesy of SKF S2M Magnetic Bearings

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Monitoring and diagnostic through the AMB control panel

The SKF MBScope® software suite is an advanced Snapshots

diagnostic and servicing interface to the E300V2 Sampled data are
control cabinet used for AMB tuning, displayed in real time.
troubleshooting, and high-sampling data Signals can be viewed in
acquisition and diagnostics. the time or frequency
domains, as orbits or
There are 2 levels of licenses that allow the end waterfall, or as statistics in
user to choose the functionalities of monitoring. tabular form.
MBScope can monitor equipment health with
display of high-resolution digital data through
real-time snapshots in time, frequency 3D, or
polar basis.

Waterfall view Event viewer Automatic Trending

For simple analyzing To view and store diagnostics Acquisition tool for
sampled data • Bearing insulation continuous real-time
collected and data recording
• Auxiliary bearings
event log
• UPS batteries
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SKF S2M Magnetic Bearings • Electronics

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