Enterprise using first US recovered-energy generation from gas compressor system

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Apr. 27 -- Enterprise Products Partners LP has completed construction and final testing of a 4.5 Mw Ormat Energy Converter (OEC) at its Neptune gas processing plant in Louisiana. Ormat International Inc., Sparks, NV, designed, installed, and tested the unit. The project utilizes previously wasted hot exhaust from two gas turbines driving gas recompression units to generate electricity with near-zero emissions.

The OEC provides most of the plant's electrical requirements, and, by self-certifying the facility as a "qualified facility" under Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act legislation, Enterprise sells exported power to the local electric utility when the processing plant runs at reduced capacity.