Hitachi has supplied over 1300 centrifugal compressors around the globe, since the first one was completed in 1911.
Centrifugal compressors meet various needs, and their main applications are in oil refineries, chemical plants, fertilizer plants, natural gas plants, steel plants, etc. We are confident that we can increase customers' satisfaction through our long, extensive experience and advanced technologies.
Compressors serves as heart of any process plant, so they are designed to be highly reliable, highly energy-efficient, and low-cost, considering the world energy situation.
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MCH type
BCH type
Plant product | Service | Compressor type | |
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Petroleum refining | Catalytic cracking |
Air compressors, gas compressors | MCH, 2MCH, DMCH |
Reforming | Recycled gas | BCH | |
Desulfurization | Recycled gas | BCH, BCH/A,B | |
Lubricating oil | Fuel gas Propane gas |
2MCH, 3MCH | |
Chemical science | Ethylene | Decomposed gas, freezing cycle | MCH, 2MCH, 3MCH, DMCH |
Ethylene oxide |
Air compressors Gas compressors |
MCH, 2MCH, POB | |
Butadiene | Gas compressor | MCH, DMCH | |
Synthesized chemicals | Ammonia | Air compressors, gas compressors, freezing cycle, synthesized gas, make-up gas, recycled gas |
MCH, 2MCH, BCH, BCH/A,B, 2BCH |
Urea | CO2 compressors | 2MCH, BCH/A,B | |
Methanol | Synthesized gas, make-up gas, recycled gas |
MCH, BCH, BCH/A, PCH | |
Natural gas | Liquefaction plant | Booster compressors End flash compressors |
MCH, 2MCH, 3MCH, BCH, 2BCH |
Gas processing plant | Gas injection compressors Gas compressors |
BCH/A, BCH/B, BCH/C | |
Pipelines | Pipeline boosters | PCH | |
Others: | Air separation | Air compressors, boosters, oxygen compressors | MCH, 2MCH |
Natural gas | Gas compressor | MCH, 2MCH |
MCH/DMCH/2MCH/3MCH: Horizontally Split Centrifugal Compressors
BCH/2BCH: Barrel-shaped centrifugal compressors
PCH: Centrifugal Compressors for Gas Pipelines
POB: Overhung Centrifugal Compressors
1911 | Supplied Hitachi's first centrifugal compressor |
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1968 | Licence agreement with Nuovo Pignone (Italy) |
1978 | Supplied carbon dioxide compressor for urea plant with highest compression ratio (about 260) |
1983 | Supplied compressor for large-flow-rate (250,000 m³/h) butadiene plant |
1989 | Supplied compressor driven by variable speed motor (for India) |
1991 | Expiry of license agreement with Nuevo Pignone.Began technical cooperation with S2M (France) in the field of compressors with magnetic bearings |
1992 | Supplied first compressor with magnetic bearings |
1993 | Supplied compressors for large ethylene plant (675,000tons/yr) (for Indonesia) |
1999 | Supplied compressors for Malaysia's Tiga gas plant |
2002 | Supplied compressors for GAS plant for Saudi Aramco |
2005 | Supplied compressors for Sakhalin-2 pipeline |
2007 | -165 degC Low Temp Natural Gas Booster Compressor shipped |
2011 | S-MR Compressor supplied to China |
2012 | Compressor for FPSO shipped |
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