LMF Consulting, is specialised in remote industrial asset performance monitoring. In doing so, Imbu supports end-users with optimisation of O & M practices so as to maximise operational efficiency of equipment. LMF Consulting, affiliated company – IMBU BV (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – has developed a line of remote condition monitoring devices & software & services. These have been designed and deployed into world’s most challenging locations like the Niger Delta (Nigeria) and the steppes of Kazakhstan.
IMBU’s line of products and services allows LMF Consulting, to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the customer and pro-actively support operations by:
- Real time or near real time condition monitoring
- Indicate upcoming maintenance (condition-based and hour-based)
- Improve scoping of maintenance programmes
- Concentrate on how compressor efficiency can be further increased (maximising compressor throughput m3/hr)
- Execute remote root-cause analyses
- Aid in optimising operational practices etc…
Part of IMBU’s scope is configuration and operation of a ‘digital twin’ compressor (or pump or other). This ‘digital twin’ is a highly accurate digital representation of the “as designed” physical compressor set and predicts e.g. exact PV curves taking operational conditions into account (pressures, temperatures, gas-composition etc.). This allows a continuous trending of how much the actual measured performance is deviating from the engineered “twin’s” baseline performance.
IMBU supplies its condition monitoring products to end users but has also been selected as supplier to a large compressor OEM (manufactures world’s largest reciprocating compressors for high-spec refinery applications). IMBU is the first monitoring specialist making these advanced ‘refinery style’ analytics available to the field gas compression market at an affordable price level. IMBU has references available where it equipment has been used to improve compressor availability by double digit percentages.