Chart Industries equipment for gas and industrial processes

Choosing the correct Chart business

Chart Industries is part of Baker Hughes. Its portfolio covers cryogenic equipment, heat transfer, air and gas handling, water treatment and carbon capture. Start an enquiry with the business or manufacturer shown on the equipment, then describe the duty.

A group name establishes the general context but does not identify a vessel configuration, compressor model or instrument version.

Cryogenic activities include Chart China, Chart Ferox, Chart VRV, Chart Cryonorm and Cryo Technologies. GOFA and VCT address transport applications; ChartMarine addresses marine applications. Air-X-Changers, Hudson, Smithco and IMB cover different heat transfer requirements.

Howden, CPI, Spencer Turbine and L.A. Turbine address air and gas handling or related machinery. Fronti Fabrications manufactures pressure vessels. Chart CSC provides cryogenic transport service, and Maintenance Partners by Howden services rotating and turbomachinery equipment.

Retain each manufacturer identity in your equipment list.

Defining a cryogenic storage and delivery system

A storage enquiry should describe both the required duty and the equipment boundary. Chart identifies tanks, vaporizers, vacuum jacketed pipework, controls, valves and auxiliaries within its engineered systems offering. Specify which of these are required and which are already present.

State the gas, demand pattern, installation location and available process information. Separate the storage requirement from downstream distribution and point-of-use requirements.

For replacement equipment, attach the existing vessel plate and the relevant system drawing. For an extension, distinguish current operation from the proposed duty. List the connections that must interface with existing plant.

This creates a clear basis for discussing the supply scope and avoids treating the name of a tank as a complete specification for every component connected to it.

MicroBulk, cylinders and vaporization

MicroBulk storage, liquid gas cylinders and bulk storage systems serve different supply arrangements. Identify the installed system before requesting a replacement or expansion. Describe how gas reaches the process, where consumption occurs and how demand changes during operation.

Include a system diagram if several consumers share the same supply. Mark the equipment that is to remain in service.

For a vaporizer enquiry, provide its designation and the gas delivery requirement. For vacuum insulated pipe, attach a route drawing, dimensions and connection details. For a cylinder assembly, include the cylinder identity and the marking on the requested component.

Keep instrument and valve requirements as separate line items. This makes the proposed equipment boundary easier to review and helps preserve the link between the original documentation and each requested assembly.

Heat exchangers and air cooled equipment

Chart includes several heat transfer businesses. Air-X-Changers, Hudson and Smithco are associated with air cooled heat exchangers, while IMB addresses specialty exchanger requirements.

Identify the actual manufacturer and the installed unit before requesting a complete exchanger, replacement bundle, fan or drive assembly. Similar external dimensions do not establish that two assemblies can be exchanged.

For a new equipment enquiry, send the process duty, fluid information and available installation drawings. For an existing machine, add the serial number and original specification. Clearly distinguish replacement at the existing duty from a change in performance.

Mark connection points and space constraints on the drawing. If only one component is required, identify the equipment with which it must interface, allowing the proposal to address the actual scope of the request.

Compression, blowers and turboexpanders

Howden provides air and gas handling products and services. CPI, Spencer Turbine and L.A. Turbine represent other specific activities in the Chart portfolio. A compressor, blower, steam turbine and turboexpander require different enquiry data.

State the machine type and manufacturer before listing the process requirements. Retain the complete designation from the equipment plate, including suffixes.

For complete equipment, provide the medium, flow, inlet and outlet conditions and drive information. For parts, include the machine serial number, assembly drawing and component reference. If the request follows a failure, describe the observed symptom separately from the replacement list.

Inspection findings can help define the requested scope, but photographs alone do not establish a failure mechanism. Keep the equipment selection and any proposed change in operating duty as distinct questions.

Transport equipment and transfer assemblies

GOFA and VCT are represented in Chart transport activities. VCT also describes hydraulic and electric drive pumps with associated controls. Identify the transport vessel separately from its transfer equipment.

The vehicle registration or fleet number can be useful for your records, but the enquiry also needs the manufacturer markings on the vessel, pump, drive and control assembly.

Send the vessel plate, a drawing of the installation and the markings on each requested item. Include electrical supply information for a control unit and the available circuit drawing for a hydraulic assembly.

For an ISO container, photographs of the identification plate and valve compartment help relate the request to its installed configuration. Define whether you need a complete transport unit, a transfer package or individual replacement components.

Energy, water and carbon capture projects

Within an LNG or hydrogen project, distinguish liquefaction, storage, transport and fueling. Cryo Technologies describes separation, purification and liquefaction systems for industrial gases, while ChartMarine addresses marine applications.

A project can combine several activities, but that does not make every component suitable for every gas or include every auxiliary in the same supply package.

ChartWater addresses water treatment, Earthly Labs develops the modular CiCi platform, and SES is associated with Cryogenic Carbon Capture. Describe the incoming stream, application and required result when requesting these systems.

For an existing installation, identify the actual machine and component before requesting parts. For a new project, list the available engineering information and proposed equipment boundaries. Treat a process design enquiry separately from a direct component replacement.

Preparing an equipment and parts enquiry

Use one line for each manufacturer, equipment designation, serial number, part reference, quantity and drawing attachment. Keep different versions separate. If you need both a component and a complete assembly as alternatives, identify them as options within the same request.

Mark which references come from the original specification and which have been read from an installed replacement.

State the delivery destination and packaging requirements, then attach the documents required by your project. Link each documentation requirement to the relevant item.

During review, compare the proposed scope with the original line list and resolve missing identifiers before agreeing the configuration. Keep the final equipment records with the installed machine.

A future enquiry can then use confirmed identification rather than starting again from an incomplete photograph.