OMV UPHY LARGE PROJECT FOR GREEN HYDROGEN
RECIP - COMPRESSOR
Supporting the OMV UpHy Large Project, this engineering scope delivers integrated compressor package design for reliable operation within a large-scale green hydrogen development.
Owner
SIEMENS ENERGY LTD
Client
SIEMENS ENERGY LTD
PMC
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Location
AUSTRIA
Project Scope
The project comprises Piping design and Engineering, structural Engineering, foundation engineering, and Piping stress analysis to support the safe and reliable installation, commissioning and operation of reciprocating compressor systems.
• Comprehensive detail engineering for Reciprocating Compressor Package, ensuring end-to-end design validation, code compliance, and integration of Piping, civil, a structural systems for reliable compressor train operation.
• Part of OMV UpHy Large Project, executed under stringent project specifications, safety requirements, and international engineering standards for hydrogen service applications.
• Piping engineering discipline scope, covering high-pressure piping design, routing optimization, stress compliance, and integration with compressor nozzles and auxiliaries.
• Structural engineering discipline scope, ensuring steel structure design, dynamic load resistance, and vibration-safe platform configurations
• Advanced piping stress analysis, incorporating sustained, thermal, seismic, wind, and compressor-induced vibration load cases with ASME code compliance
•Detailed piping layout development, ensuring optimized routing, minimal pressure drop, maintainability, and stress-free configuration around compressor skids
• Equipment interface coordination, ensuring accurate alignment with vendor GA drawings, nozzle orientation checks, and mechanical compatibility verification
•Piping isometric preparation, ensuring fabrication-ready drawings with accurate spool breakdown, weld mapping, and BOM extraction
• Integration of compressor auxiliaries, including lube oil, seal gas, cooling water, and drain systems with proper routing and segregation
• Integration of utility connections, ensuring seamless tie-ins for power, instrument air, cooling systems, and process interfaces.
•Foundation design coordination, ensuring proper load distribution, dynamic response control, and anti-vibration foundation design for compressor operation.
• Structural steel detailing, including platform framing, equipment support steel, and access structures with precise fabrication detailing.
• Platform and accessibility arrangement design, ensuring safe maintenance access, lifting space, and ergonomic operational layouts
• Platform and accessibility arrangement design, ensuring safe maintenance access, lifting space, and ergonomic operational layouts.
• Nozzle load limitation checks, ensuring compliance with API 617 / vendor allowable loads for compressor nozzles.
• Multidisciplinary coordination across engineering teams, ensuring seamless integration between piping, civil, structural, electrical, and instrumentation disciplines.
• Constructability reviews and 3D model reviews for execution feasibility, incorporating erection methodology, modularization strategy, and site installation constraints.
• Clash detection and resolution, utilizing 3D model coordination to identify and eliminate interferences across all disciplines.
Key Highlights
Successfully end-to-end Detail Engineering for Piping, Civil & Structural disciplines for the Reciprocating Compressor Package with modular concept in a Green Hydrogen facility, ensuring adherence to stringent safety, quality, and international standards.
Developed a comprehensive 3D model with modular concepts with 34 modules for 2 no's of compressors accurately representing all piping systems, equipment, and structural components, which enhanced design visualization and minimized site-level conflicts with modular concepts of facility with 480+No. of lines, 35 No. of Module and plot area 1656 m2.
Executed detailed Piping engineering activities, including Preparation of General Arrangement (GA) Drawings, Piping Layouts and Routing Optimization, Generation of Isometric Drawings with BOM/MTO, Equipment modelling and Piping integration.
Performed advanced Piping stress analysis for critical lines, achieving Validation of system flexibility under thermal expansion and operating conditions, Transportation and lifting conditions of module. Proper evaluation of nozzle loads on compressor equipment, Optimization of support types and locations for safe operation, Full compliance with ASME codes and project-specific standards.
Carried out Modular structural engineering design for the compressor skids with piping and auxiliaries with lifting and transportation analysis.