Digital Computer Control and Testing of Compressor Stations

The benefits of digital computer control have been discussed in relation to chemical, petroleum, and many other industrial processes at great length on numerous occasions. When discussing the benefits and principles of computer control, the gas transmission pipeline reciprocating compressor station can also be considered a processing unit which, in a very complex manner using expensive machinery, converts raw feed (natural gas fuel) into product (energy in the natural gas in the form of increased pressure). This is particularly true since the introduction of the latest generation of reciprocating compressors with their new innovations.