OT my week of travel

David G · Oct 31, 2015

I drove down to the Oklahoma panhandle on Monday to work on a natural gas compressor station, on the way home I got a call about an issue and went up to South Dakota to work on another one. I saw a lot of grain laying on the ground all the way from end to end. The grain in Oklahoma/Kansas was brownish, so please comment if you know what it would be. It is really beautiful up in South Dakota, a lot of farms, wooded fence rows and marshes. I would love to go back there sometime and go pheasant hunting, but have been traveling enough the last few months that I just want to be home.
I drove about 2100 miles this week, that is about twice what my average is.

Ozlander · Oct 31, 2015

Probably Maize.

RogerinIowa · Oct 31, 2015

Also called milo.

JD Seller · Oct 31, 2015

David the grain you saw was like Roger stated, Milo

Here is a picture of ripe milo.

RogerinIowa · Oct 31, 2015

While this milo is red, it can also be white or somewhere in between.

john in la · Oct 31, 2015

We call it dwarf grain sorghum or just grain sorghum.
The corn of hot dry areas.

John Deere D · Oct 31, 2015

May I ask the type of Prime Mover used in the Compressor station? Internal Combustion Engines or gas Turbines? What make of Compressors? Centrifugal or Reciprocating?
Thanks
Bob...
Retired ... 39+ years Compressor Station Mech. Tech.

Kent Petersen · Nov 1, 2015

They lay it down' windrow it to get dry so it will go thru the combine easy

David G · Nov 1, 2015

There is a mixture:

OK - All recip, IR, Clark and Worthington
SD - New Solar 1500 turbine

Nice to talk to another compression guy.

David G · Nov 1, 2015

Yes, I saw a lot of that in the panhandle.

David G · Nov 1, 2015

I forgot to add, it seems that for compression, recip goes with recip and turbine goes with turbine, I have not seen any unmatched.

I do not know the model of the worthingtons, they are 1500 HP
The IR are KVS 2500 HP
I do not remember the model of the Clarks, but they are V engines 6500 - 8500 HP

The customer is putting in either Solar for turbines or Cats on new recips.

george md · Nov 1, 2015

David ,

Locally we have Transco (now Williams),they have 3 nordburgs

with centrifugal compressors and 2 cooper-bessemers with crankcase

mounted compresors . nordburgs are V 16 about 3800 hp 500 at rpm ,the coopers

V 12 at 4000 hp at 250 rpm each ,running 600 psi , slightly derated due to

age of line . Lines were put in in the middle 1950's .

I due some machine work for them ,mostly metal spray and cast

welding that they don't do.

george

Ozlander · Nov 1, 2015

(quoted from post at 06:05:25 11/01/15) They lay it down' windrow it to get dry so it will go thru the combine easy

Not in Kansas.

David G · Nov 1, 2015

Those Nordbergs are brutes.

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