Expanded rotating machinery business

Hima Paul Hilde­brandt, inde­pen­dent provider of smart safe­ty solu­tions for indus­tri­al appli­ca­tions, has entered into a part­ner­ship with Ener­gy Con­trol Tech­nolo­gies (ECT), a US com­pa­ny focused on the rotat­ing machin­ery market.

The part­ner­ship will com­bine the strength of Hima’s SIL rat­ed prod­ucts and world­wide sales pres­ence with the strength of ECT’s capa­bil­i­ties and expe­ri­ence. The US-based com­pa­ny would as well be a sup­pli­er to Hima, sup­ply­ing rotat­ing machin­ery con­trol tech­nol­o­gy and com­mis­sion­ing sup­port. Togeth­er, both com­pa­nies will offer safe­ty cus­tomers SIL-rat­ed hard­ware for rotat­ing machin­ery appli­ca­tions. The efforts would uti­lize ECT’s algo­rithms for surge con­trol, per­for­mance con­trol, load shar­ing and mas­ter con­trol, steam tur­bine speed and extrac­tion con­trol, and expander control.

“The part­ner­ship with ECT will help us to dri­ve our busi­ness in a very attrac­tive mar­ket”, said Ste­fan Base­nach, Group Vice Pres­i­dent Busi­ness Seg­ment Process at Hima. “We know about our customer’s needs and our high per­for­mance SIL-rat­ed prod­ucts have the abil­i­ty to excel in rotat­ing machin­ery appli­ca­tions. We have proven suc­cess on sev­er­al rotat­ing machin­ery projects and see this new part­ner­ship com­bin­ing the expe­ri­ence of two spe­cial­ized com­pa­nies as the per­fect means to address a grow­ing market.”

Paul Fish­er, Pres­i­dent of ECT, com­ment­ed: “The part­ner­ship with Hima is open­ing new mar­kets for us. Our exper­tise is in con­trol­ling com­pres­sors, tur­bines and expanders and the algo­rithms that are nec­es­sary to max­i­mize a plan­t’s pro­duc­tion and effi­cien­cy while pro­vid­ing supe­ri­or machine pro­tec­tion. Part­ner­ing with Hima, we bring togeth­er the best of two worlds for the ben­e­fit of the client.”

Pri­ma­ry tar­get group of the part­ner­ship will be end users, typ­i­cal­ly brown-field projects, where mod­ern­iza­tion of exist­ing machines is nec­es­sary. The partnership’s offer­ing is use­ful to refin­ing appli­ca­tions like flu­id cat­alyt­ic crack­er air blow­ers and wet gas com­pres­sors, pow­er recov­ery sys­tems, hydro­gen recy­cle appli­ca­tions and refrig­er­a­tion. Chem­i­cal appli­ca­tions like eth­yl­ene and ammo­nia plants can take advan­tage of the SIL rat­ed hard­ware and rotat­ing machin­ery con­trol technology.