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Sizing Compressors - Complete Information When precision is paramount - information is king. A well built compressor is like a tailored suit, exact measurements need to be recorded and …more |
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3 Situations You Need to Know About Hycomp compressors fit into three main situations. This may seem like an over simplified view of what Hycomp offers, and that is …more |
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Hycomp Gas University: Helium Helium is a unique molecule that is used for much more than inflating balloons at the county fair. After hydrogen, helium is the lightest element and …more |
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Pressure Drop: Understand it, Plan for it There is nothing worse than making it through a technical project only to be disrupted by some critical detail that was overlooked. Pressure drop is often overlooked, misunderstood and misdiagnosed …more |
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Remote Mounted Controllers The advantages of remotely mounting a compressor control panel far outweigh the disadvantages, but when hazardous conditions are not a factor, user preference takes priority …more |
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Hycomp Gas University: Natural Gas Methane is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, flammable gas. It is the first member of the paraffin (aliphatic or saturated) series of hydrocarbons. It is the major constituent of natural gas. Methane is soluble in alcohol or ether, and slightly soluble in water …more |
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Gas Packings, Step Into The Ring: Chevron Vs. Tangent-Tangent Piston rod gas packings perform the critical function of containing gas in the compression end of a compressor. The two most widely used gas packing design styles are …more |
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Hycomp Gas University: Carbon Dioxide Carbon dioxide is a compound of carbon and oxygen in proportions by weight of about 27.3 percent carbon to 72.7 percent oxygen. A gas at normal atmospheric temperatures and pressures, carbon dioxide is …more |
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Reciprocating Compressors: Pulsation Dampening Paramount When purchasing capital equipment it is wise to protect that investment through proper packaging and installation. Inlet and discharge receiver tanks are often overlooked, but …more |
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Hycomp Gas University: Nitrogen Over the next year or two we will be creating short gas information and application articles. These gas articles will be formatted to discuss the most important information one should know when …more |
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NAACD: Return & Report Our Hycomp Sales Managers headed to Florida for the 2011 NAACD conference (North American Association of Compressor Distributors) with the President of Hycomp and a …more |
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Distributors: Working The Hycomp System In the world of compressor sales, knowledge is power. Becoming a Hycomp Distributor via our “Hycomp System” of training and partnership gives our distributors the knowledge to better understand their client’s needs and to offer …more |
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9/11 Memorial Plaza September 11th means a lot more to Americans since the tragedy of 2001 took nearly 3,000 lives and decimated the World Trade Center buildings in New York. Now that same area, known as “ground zero,” has been …more |
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Hycomp Makes The List! We are very pleased to announce that Hycomp is currently one of the fastest growing companies in the United States according to …more |
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Understanding The Nitrogen Market The market for nitrogen compression continues to expand and the applications for high pressure nitrogen are nearly everywhere. However, once you find an application, many questions still …more |
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Nuclear Nitrogen Running Strong In 2005, the plant’s original nitrogen compression system was experiencing constant failures and proving very unreliable. The nuclear power plant needed a …more |
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Downtime Hurts, Redundancy is The Answer Redundancy is a big word in business; it can be a great word or a bad word. If you have it, it’s a really good word. If you don’t, it’s a bad reminder of when you …more |
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Tracking History, One Compressor at a Time When one of our compressors is placed with an end-user we do not believe our responsibility with that customer ends, not even when the warranty period is far past …more |
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Hycomp Digital Control: Smarter & Easier Hycomp has completely overhauled the programming in our compressor digital control systems to streamline usability and increase …more |
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Distributor Training: Closing More Sales Hycomp Distributor Training explains where we fit into your sales plan. We sell a niche product and are not looking to overtake any of your main product lines. We simply offer …more |
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Service Training: Success With Air Liquide Though the crew got caught in the rain towards the end of the four-mile hike, they certainly didn’t let that dampen their spirits. Dan Davey of Air Liquide commented, “Best corporate event ever!” …more |
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191.5 Miles, But Who’s Counting A day, a night, and half a day of continuous running? Sign us up, please! Meet team “If We Weren’t All Crazy, We Would Go Insane” —a crew of Hycomp employees and friends …more |
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Hycomp Gas Compression: Safe & Reliable Hycomp engineers truly understand gas compression, and more importantly, we know how to engineer gas compressors and boosters that are both safe and reliable. In 1979 we were chosen to manufacture four units for the Susquehanna Nuclear Power Station. Because of the nuclear incident at Three Mile Island, this was …more |
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Rob Hunt: NEW Hycomp Area Sales Manager The beginning of this year has been very busy for Hycomp as we have experienced a myriad of jobs come roaring through our main offices. During these first fast paced few months, one bit of news we are pleased to announce is the addition of Robert J. Hunt to our team …more |
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Solid Factory Service With An Intuitive Edge In the multi-billion dollar empire of medical product manufacturing, contaminations such as oil and debris cannot be allowed to enter the process. If a compressed air or gas system were to experience contamination of any kind, the Food and …more |
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AICD 2011: Las Vegas, May 14 - 17 The 2011 Association of Independent Compressor Distributors (AICD) meeting is just around the corner on May 14 – 17. This year The AICD meeting is heading to The Red Rock Resort in beautiful Las Vegas …more |
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ICDA 2011: Florida - Return & Report Rob Hunt and Ken Schiefer had the honor of attending the 32nd Annual Industrial Compressor Distributor Association (ICDA) meeting April 17 – 19, 2011. The ICDA meeting is unique in that it is attended by owners and senior management of …more |
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Hycomp & Japan Like many Americans, we watched the Japanese tragedy unfold online and on television. We saw families mourning those they lost and we saw the fear on their faces. Hycomp employees banded together to raise money via our own donations, with some help from a few of our vendors. Hycomp then …more |
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Hycomp: Oil-free Booster Compressors Aid Pharmaceutical Packaging In the realm of pharmaceutical production and packaging, the two most important factors with compressed air are reliability and quality. In pharmaceutical plants, our customers have emphasized this reoccurring theme over and over to paint the clear picture that reliable and high-quality air are king. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has very stringent production process regulations, put in place to protect the public, and …more |
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Proper Filtration First Priority You wouldn’t run your car without an air filter, so you certainly wouldn’t want to operate a compressor without proper filtration. Sounds simple enough, but some important precautions concerning filtration often go overlooked …more |
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Quality VS. Price No one wants the blame for low quality unreliable equipment. Lower priced compressors may save money on the front end, but more often than not, are costly in the long run …more |
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Pharmaceuticals: Clean & Reliable Compressed Air Engineering Support Case Study In the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, clean and reliable compressed gas is paramount. Pharmaceutical plants must meet the Food and Drug Administration’s regulations (FDA). If the process and product is not free of contaminates, plants can …more |
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2010: A Letter From The President It’s 9am and I’m on the first leg of a twenty six hour flight to Singapore. I received an email from Delta just three days ago, telling me that because of my Medallion status, I’ve been upgraded to first class. You can imagine the feelings of gratitude that immediately flooded through me – and left just as quickly when I opened the email to find it was only for the first 1:46 segment from Salt Lake City to Portland. The remaining 24 hours I am still …more |
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Hycomp Distributor Protection Have you ever heard a distributor say, “I did all the work and somebody else got the sale”? At Hycomp we understand how tough sales can be and that’s why we do all we can to protect our distributors …more |
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Big Problems & Big Solutions Big issues require big solutions, and we have the knowledge and skills necessary to handle the jobs that come our way. From the humid climate of Cadereyta, Mexico, to the extreme dry heat of the Algerian Sahara Desert, Hycomp is …more |
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Hycomp: Protection Against Water Hammer Damage When installing various water systems and specifically, municipal culinary water systems, engineers tend to focus on two main points, 1) designing an efficient system and 2) protecting that system against potential problems. One major problem that causes severe damage or system failure for any water treatment station is water hammer shock waves. “Water Hammer” or “Hydraulic Shock” is a pressure surge or shockwave resulting when a fluid (usually a liquid but sometimes also a gas) in motion is …more |
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Heavy Duty Industrial Compressors Hycomp compressors are designed, engineered and manufactured with two main goals in mind. 1) To provide performance that exceeds expectations and 2) To produce safe oil-free compressors and compressor systems that …more |
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Hycomp Goes Synthetic Cut the amount of oil changes your compressor needs by 75% by switching to Hycomp’s new synthetic crankcase oil. Hycomp now offers “Hy-Syn” as premium performance crankcase lubrication. Using Hy-Syn instead of traditional oil equates to 75% longer life, less downtime and …more Click here for the Hycomp Synthetic Oil “Hy-Syn” Product Sheet |
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Compressor Maintenance: “No Worries” With over 40,000 hours of operation and only oil changes for maintenance, a Hycomp nitrogen compressor in Eugene, Oregon is …more |
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Fully Packaged to Your Application Hycomp compressor packaging is high quality, safe, flexible, and reliable. Our engineers are the compressor experts so you don’t have to be. We will work with you to engineer a compressor system tailored to your …more |
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Full Control & Energy Savings The inclusion of the Hycomp Digital Controller (HDC) increases your compressor’s efficiency, precision and ease of use. It basically comes down to this question: When you need to adjust the discharge pressure or temperature switch, do you want approximate or precise adjustments? …more |
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Hycomp Q&A: How does Hycomp handle XP packaging? The acronym, XP stands for explosion proof. When a compressor system is referred to as XP, it is inferring containment against a potential explosion. Hycomp compressors and boosters are available with packaging and safety measures to protect personnel and property. Providing the XP is …more |
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Full Hycomp Factory Support Hycomp offers full factory support. When you need us we will be there for you 24 hours a day and 7 days a week as a standard service …more |
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Hycomp Q&A: How do I handle a warranty issue? At Hycomp, we are very serious about our compressors. When an issue is covered by our warranty, we will do what it takes to make the situation right and build on our relationship of trust with you …more |
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It’s a 189 Mile Party Hycomp Team Finishes 2010 Ragnar Relay - Utah If running 189 miles through the mountains of Utah sounds crazy, you are probably a normal and sane individual. If running 189 miles on a team of 12 sounds like a lot of fun, you are …more |
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NEW Gas Booster Niche & Higher Profits Our gas compressor niche basically exists because most large manufacturers do not address the problems that Hycomp compressors solve. Many of the companies that have been serving this market are also pulling out of the gas compression market, even as it is growing. This increasing demand for gas compressors offers Hycomp distributors very exciting opportunities …more |
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Hycomp Q&A: We have a growing number of natural gas opportunities. How do we move forward addressing these with confidence? Hycomp is an industry leader in designing, engineering and manufacturing natural gas compressors that are not only safe to use and operate, but are specifically tailored to your exact application. It is our job to be the experts; you do not need to …more |
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AICD Presentaion - Understanding The Booster Market Hycomp had the opportunity this year to present information about the Air Booster and Gas Compressor niche market. Ken Schiefer led an energetic discussion about how AICD members can find opportunities and applications for these products. Ken shared some tips and tricks to understanding gas compressors and how to …more |
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Nitrogen Applications On The Rise The demand for pure, high pressure reliable nitrogen is increasing, and Hycomp has the answers that your clients want. In the last six months 42% of the inquires we received were for nitrogen compressors and boosters. These inquires represent …more |
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Hycomp Presentation At AICD The presentation will help distributors better understand the market and how to find more opportunities and success. The basics of air and gas boosting will be addressed. We will also delve into some key technical engineering points to help those in attendance fully understand when, where, and why air and gas boosters are …more |
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Engineering A Better Cardboard Sled The Beaver Mountain Bash: Cardboard Boxcar Derby & Pond Skim Zooming down a snow covered hill in a cardboard box may seem like a bad idea to some people, but to those who piloted the “cardboard box derby cars,” it was …more |
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How To Size A Compressor: Application Worksheet Success A well built compressor is like a tailored suit, exact measurements need to be recorded and followed or the suit will not fit properly. Hycomp compressors are engineered to be an exact fit for their intended use and …more |
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NEW Hycomp Q&A: What is an air booster, how does it work and where is it applied? What, When, Where, How & Why? Air boosters take pre-compressed air from an existing network (your plant air system) or from a low-pressure compressor and increase it to the required higher pressure. A Hycomp Oil Free Air Booster is a specially designed reciprocating …more |
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Hycomp To Attend 2010 ICDA Ken Schiefer, Area Manager – North America, will be representing Hycomp Inc. at the 31st Annual ICDA meeting located in Palm Springs, California on April 25 - 28. “I am very excited to talk to Gardner Denver distributors about gas compressors. Hycomp has an amazing oil free gas compressor line, and due to recent events with Gardner Denver, people are …more |
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Hycomp Featured in “Best Practices” There are many applications which require a low horsepower compressor built with the technology that has been proven in larger compressors. Often these situations are not addressed well by the general compressor industry. Hycomp makes a point of focusing on some of these niche applications, building smaller scale units that are designed for continuous duty critical performance situations. These are the reasons that companies like Chevron, Texaco, Exxon, BP, Sonatrach, and …more |
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NEW Hycomp Q&A: How do I properly mount a Hycomp compressor to a new foundation… or an existing foundation? …the answer |
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Hycomp Factory Startup Two key questions often come up during a capital equipment purchase. “How many other unforeseen expenses are there going to be?” and “How long will it take to be up and running?” Hycomp Factory Startup eliminates these concerns and includes: an additional six months manufacturer warranty, efficient and worry-free startup, assurance that proper installation guidelines were followed and system training for end user technicians …more |
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Hycomp Factory Testing At our Hycomp factory in Northern Utah, we test every compressor we manufacture to ensure that it performs as designed. Each compressor is tested for a minimum of four hours under application simulated conditions to ensure that the compressor startup is safe and reliable …more |
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The Hycomp Question & Answer page is a place where you are invited to ask us questions and we will respond and post the answers. We would like to answer any questions you may have about Hycomp, our products or anything compressor engineering related.
Do have a question about valve replacement, are you not sure which size J-bolt to use when building a foundation or how to properly size a compressor or booster? We have the information you need and each question is answered anonymously, so no one will know who submitted the inquiry. You ask the questions and Hycomp will answer, its that simple …more |
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Hycomp Awarded Petrofac Contract Hycomp, Inc. has been awarded a compressor design, build, installation and service contract by Petrofac International LTD. Petrofac is one of the largest design, build and investment companies for oil & gas production projects in the Middle East with annual revenues of $3.3 Billion (USD) and a backlog approaching $8 Billion (USD). Hycomp will be supplying Petrofac, the primary contractor for the El Merk Central Processing Facility (CPF), with a nitrogen …more |
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What’s New On The Hycomp Website At Hycomp, we are pressing forward in the areas of distributor communication and engineering involvement, while keeping up our commitment to quality, reliability and safety. So, visit hycompusa.com often as new content is continuously being added. We have added three new pages: “Engineer to Engineer,” “Question & Answer” and …more |
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Hycomp In The News Near the end of 2009, Hycomp compressors made the news, in print and online. Hycomp Wet CO2 Burial (Sequestration) LexMar: “LesGaz Diver Gas Reclaim” System |
Letter From The President: 2009 In Review
Now that 2009 is in the rear-view-mirror, I thought I would share a few 2009 Hycomp achievements with our valued Distributors, Dealers, and other industry friends.
First off, we are very proud to announce that in the midst of a hard-hitting recession and a very difficult climate for capital equipment expenditures, our revenues grew for a fifth straight year. We give a lot of credit to our valued Distributors, Dealers, end users and employees for…more
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The New Hycomp Newsletter: Performance Under Pressure Our Monthly Publication Designed With YOU In Mind First Issue: January 2010 - Volume 1, Issue 1 January 2010 marked the launch of our new Hycomp newsletter: Performance Under Pressure. These newsletters are designed with our distributors and their client’s in mind. Our main goal is to inform with useful tools and inspire with success story examples …more Click here for the January 2010: Performance Under Pressure (PDF) |
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Hycomp Runs For Glory? The 188 Mile 2009 Ragnar Wasatch Back Relay So what do you get when you load two large vehicles with 2 drivers, 12 runners, and collectively run 188 miles (302.6 km) on next to no sleep? Two vans full of stinky, zombie-like crazy relay runners who are …more |
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Hycomp’s Newest Piece Of Equipment The ROMER INFINITE 2.0 Portable CMM The ROMER INFINITE 2.0 Portable Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) is Hycomp’s newest equipment addition. The Romer CMM has six joints of fully articulated movement to track and record measurements. This translates to an even higher level of …more |
Click here for the published journal article: “Hycomp Takes Quality Personal and Mobile”
Hycomp Q&A
Nitrogen Pressure Boosting
Special Considerations &
N2 Booster Vs. Air Booster
The primary differences between a nitrogen booster and an air booster are the piston rings and gas packing materials… the materials used for the rings and packings in a Hycomp Nitrogen Booster are selected specifically to perform well with nitrogen and will ensure a longer life for your nitrogen booster…
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