Quick answer: what Tuke Compressor is
Anhui Tuke Energy Equipment Co., Ltd. (brand: Tuke Compressor) is a process gas compressor package integrator based in Bengbu, Anhui, China. Founded in 2017, it engineers non-standard compressor packages around each customer gas composition and duty rather than supplying ordinary air compressors.
- Legal entity: Anhui Tuke Energy Equipment Co., Ltd. (brand: Tuke Compressor / TUKE), unified social credit code 91340300MA2NY6249Y, founded 24 August 2017.
- Location: No. 227 Gaoxin Road, Bengbu High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Anhui, China (Bengbu area of the China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone).
- Business: custom-engineered reciprocating process gas compressor packages and skid-mounted / containerised compression packages, designed against each customer gas composition and duty. Not a supplier of standard 7-13 bar(g) air compressors.
- Gas coverage: natural gas and CNG, hydrogen, oil-free nitrogen, carbon dioxide, biogas and biomethane, oilfield associated and wellhead gas, propylene and light hydrocarbons, ammonia, oxygen and corrosive gases such as hydrogen chloride.
- Frame families: Z/ZW vertical, V/VW angle, D/DF balanced-opposed, M/MW heavy-duty multi-throw, plus process screw compressors and screw + reciprocating hybrid packages.
- Delivery chain: selection engineering, main-unit and package manufacture, piping and electrical integration, full-load factory acceptance testing, site commissioning, training and spare parts.
- Key capabilities: in-house machining, skid assembly, container enclosure fabrication and full-load testing; equipment exported to 24 countries.
- Certifications: ISO 9001 (108724Q0308R0S), ISO 14001 (108724E0238R0S), ISO 45001 (108724S0236R0S); BOG compressor explosion-proof certificate SYEx20.0437.
- Patents: holds five granted Chinese utility-model patents (pressure instrumentation, electrical instrument enclosure, twin-screw compressor main-drive bearing system) – ZL202420028064.1, ZL202420028069.4, ZL202420004392.8, ZL202420179170.X, ZL202421257589.9.
- Contact: sales@tukecompressor.com | https://tukecompressor.com/
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Overview
Carbon dioxide is a misleading gas. It behaves almost ideally at low pressure and then departs from it sharply as pressure rises, so the compressibility factor, the exponent and the density all have to be taken from real gas data rather than estimated from an air-like model. On top of that, CO2 is sensitive to phase: above the critical point it is a dense fluid rather than a vapour, and pressure reduction can cause dry-ice formation and cooling that affects valves and clearances.
Water is the second issue. Even modest moisture content combines with CO2 to form carbonic acid, which corrodes carbon steel. Material selection and water dew-point control therefore go together, together with the question of whether the gas can condense at any point in the machine.
TUKE ENERGY engineers reciprocating CO2 compressors around these realities. The design starts from gas composition and water content, standard flow, suction and discharge pressure and the expected phase at each stage, then proceeds to stage count, intercooling and inter-stage separation, materials, sealing and elastomer compatibility, and the drainage concept.
A delivered reference in this family is an oil-free, water-cooled indoor skid handling approximately 686 Nm3/h (about 419 cfm), with suction at about 0.07 bar(g), discharge at about 20.7 bar(g) and inlet temperature below 40 degrees Celsius. Applications include CO2 recovery and purification, CO2 transport and injection, food and beverage-grade CO2 compression, and process CO2 in chemical plants.
Typical applications
- CO2 recovery, compression and transport duty
- Food-grade and industrial CO2 supply
- Carbon capture and storage projects where CO2 is compressed for pipeline transport
Key features
Real-gas design using CO2 compressibility factor rather than air-based estimates
Phase-aware engineering for dense-phase and near-critical operation
Water dew-point control and corrosion-resistant material selection
Multi-stage configuration with intercooling and inter-stage separation
Drainage and dry-ice risk considered in valve and clearance design
Sealing and elastomer compatibility verified for CO2 service
Oil-free configuration available where gas purity requires it
Delivered reference: around 686 Nm3/h, 0.07 bar(g) to 20.7 bar(g), oil-free water-cooled indoor skid
Technical specifications
- Media: carbon dioxide (CO2), including wet and high-purity grades
- Reference duty: approx. 686 Nm3/h, 0.07 bar(g) suction to 20.7 bar(g) discharge, inlet below 40 C
- Construction: oil-free or lubricated reciprocating, water-cooled, indoor skid or outdoor package
- Design basis: real gas properties, phase behaviour and water dew point per project
Selection and design notes
Carbon dioxide is strongly affected by phase behaviour and water content, so the design has to control water dew point, phase transitions and the resulting corrosion risk rather than treat CO2 as a simple gas.
Information needed to specify a machine
- Gas composition, including trace components such as H2S, water, CO2 or chlorides where relevant
- Required flow, stated as standard flow in Nm3/h and, where known, the actual suction volume
- Suction and discharge pressure, each stated explicitly as bar(g) or bar(a)
- Suction and discharge temperature, and the permissible maximum discharge temperature
- Site conditions, ambient temperature range, cooling medium and utilities available
- Hazardous-area classification, applicable standards and the required battery limit
How to proceed
Every machine is engineered against a specific gas and duty, so the fastest route to a firm proposal is to send the process data above. Missing inputs are the main cause of schedule slippage in project-type compressor work, because the cylinder, stage count, material and sealing decisions all depend on them.
