Total Power Package FPSO, FSO & Offshore

Hamworthy Combustion are now providing turnkey boiler packages for the offshore market – with 24 x 7 remote condition monitoring.

This is a natural development of our world leading position in the FPSO and FSO market. For over 30 years, we have successfully supplied the majority of FPSO and FSO vessels with complex combustion systems. With the growth in the sophistication of offshore power systems, the combustion burner system has become the most complex part of the boiler package.

As each FPSO project is unique, Hamworthy Combustion is able to determine the optimal boiler for the total power system and hence cost effective solution. In being independent of boiler suppliers, we are exceedingly well positioned to select the most appropriate boilers to meet the specific power system needs of each individual FPSO project.

Hamworthy Combustion are providing a turnkey package: total responsibility for complete design, supply, integration and commissioning. This includes remote condition monitoring, backed up by our global marine service capability with rapid local support.

Prosafe

Prosafe Production's FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading) tanker Espoir Ivoirien is moored offshore Côte D'Ivoire. At the heart of the 60,000 barrels-per-day production facility is a power supply provided by twin large steam boilers and, ultimately, Hamworthy's combustion system for firing produced fuel gas and diesel oil.

Prosafe required fast-track ship conversion with zero downtime and minimal shipyard installation work. Hamworthy Combustion provided an integrated dual fuel combustion package with maximum pre-assembly to successfully meet client requirements. As a result, Hamworthy Combustion were awarded a second, near-identical, order for the sister-ship Abo FPSO, now operating on the Abo oilfield, offshore Nigeria.

'Hamworthy Combustion is clearly the world leading supplier of combustion systems for FPSOs and other offshore production units. It’s a company we’re delighted to be associated with.’
Frances Xavier, Marketing Engineer, Aalborg Industries, Singapore.

Wellman Robey Limited

Hamworthy Combustion has been supplying packaged burners, spares and service to industrial boiler and pressure vessel manufacturer Wellman Robey for nearly half a century. The Hamworthy Combustion/Wellman partnership has delivered solutions to international shell boiler steam and hot water markets in terms of commissioning, spares and service and has always been in the forefront in developing low emission and high efficiency plant.

Taj Heer, Managing Director at Wellman Robey reports: “The long and successful relationship we have enjoyed over many years with Hamworthy Combustion has been based on its excellence in the provision of package boilers and burner systems to the most exacting standards of blue chip companies worldwide.”

Mitsui Babcock

Mitsui Babcock’s Phai Lai (Vietnam) and Heze Phase 2 (China) projects threw up two vexing combustion questions in terms of light-up burners and high energy ignitors.

Mitsui Babcock wanted a stable light-up burner for firing heavy fuel oil without using an air swirler to provide a flame re-circulation zone. Also required was a system to ignite the light-up burner without the use of a pilot flame - notoriously difficult just using a direct spark.

Hamworthy Combustion’s unique alliance of combustion specialists from Hamworthy Combustion, Airoil-Flaregas, Peabody Engineering and Chentronics designed an atomiser tip that successfully fires the burner without the need for a pilot flame.

Prior to installation, Hamworthy Combustion was able to test its reliability at its world-leading Advanced Technology Centre in the UK where it was successfully demonstrated with a high energy ignitor firing 20 sparks per second. This gave Mitsui Babcock confidence that Hamworthy Combustion had designed, produced and supplied a cost-effective and reliable solution.

Hamworthy / Hirakawa Guidom

Exhaustive field trials by boilermakers in Japan have proved that Hamworthy Combustion's envirojet burners give the best performance in terms of ultra low NOx with optimum combustion efficiency and minimum power consumption.

Japanese boilermaker Hirakawa Guidom Corporation now uses Envirojet burners on all its new shell boilers, offering the ultimate in steam and hot water boiler performance to its international blue chip customer base.

"Hamworthy Combustion enjoy a favourable reputation for its burners among Japanese customers in all industries that require the toughest, most energy-efficient, and lowest NOx boilers in the world." Shinichi Hirakawa, President of Hirakawa Guidom Corporation.