General Assembly 2021 Due to the COVID-19-Situation we decided to organise the General Assembly this year as an online-event again. It will be held on April the 23rd from 1-3 pm and will be carried out similar to 2020.
Conference Promotion Package In the last days we could welcome our last three conference sponsors of the 12th EFRC Conference in Warsaw/Poland, scheduled from August 24 to 26, 2021. All conference sponsors will give a Technology Update to the full audience about their latest products, services and innovations for reciprocating compressors. More Information here
New edition of our TUTORIAL Dear friends and partners of the EFRC, We gladly announce the roll out of the revised TUTORIAL SECTION on the EFRC website addressing the fundamentals of reciprocating compressors. It offers you core knowledge regarding the thermodynamics, components, operation of recips and their development and trends. We would be happy to welcome you to our refurbished section that will serve as your reliable look-up reference! To the Tutorials
Conference postponed to August 24 – 26, 2021 Thank you for your interest in the upcoming 12th EFRC Conference. Due to recommendations of governments, health organisations and inordinate amount of international travel restrictions, imposed on participants at both national and organisational levels because of Covid-19 outbreak, we have decided to postpone the 12th EFRC Conference.…
As part of the EFRC 2021 conference, again a training event will be organised. This can conveniently combined with a registration to the conference, for an attractive fee. Trouble-shooting techniques for reciprocating compressor systems The selected topics and speakers for the workshop: Reliability, failure patterns and maintenance approaches – Guido Kluth (Shell) Trouble-shooting approaches in…
How to avoid Liquids in Reciprocating Compressors Liquids entering reciprocating compressors are a known cause of reliability problems or even catastrophic failures such as: Loss of primary containment. Damaged compressor parts. A slug as a result of liquid carry-over is particularly hard on compressor valves, piston rings, piston rods, crossheads, and bearings, due to increased…
The General Assembly of EFRC was successfully held as a webinar on April 24th, 2020. The members assembly voted for a new member of the board. Mr. Franzisko Maywald of Burckhardt Compression was elected as successor of Matthias Tanner as cashier. Furthermore Mr. Paul Modern was elected as new chairman of the Standardisation Working…