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    An Alternative Option to Provide Seal Gas for Dry Gas Seals Which was Used During the First Start Up of Pipeline Booster Compressors
    (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022) Baldassarre, Leonardo; Mirza, Salman; Al-Alshaikh, Tariq H.; Brown, Eric William; Grayeb, Laura Fernanda; Barbato, Luigi; Arumugam, Sivakumar; Moretti, Michele
    This case study covers the initial start up (“black� start up) of a centrifugal compressor at a pipeline station located in a remote desert environment in Saudi Arabia, focusing on the issue that the suction and discharge header pressures were the same. • No supply of process gas at a higher pressure than the suction pressure was available for use as seal gas. • In many gas plant or Refinery installations, suitable gas at a higher pressure is often available, but this was not the case for this pipeline application • The seal gas system configuration studied and described was used to overcome this seal gas supply issue during initial or “black� startup