AB PROGETTI

About AB Progetti

AB Progetti is one of the leaders in vacuum devices production. More than 70 years of experience in steam jet ejector and vacuum systems manufacturing: from the past to the present, we have been ensuring and helping our partners in achieving their manufacturing targets and production demands through long term customer satisfaction and incomparable after sales services. Our key to success if through continuous improvement of reliability and product efficiency, apart from ensuring safety measures.

Steam Jet Ejectors

The Steam Jet Ejectors have no moving parts and operate by the combined action of a high-pressure stream entraining the air and other vapors (or liquids) at a lower pressure entering the moving stream. Once inside, they are then removed from the process system at an intermediate pressure, higher than the suction pressure but at times lower than the motive steam pressure.

Steam Jet Ejectors
01 Booster ejector of a three staged vacuum system for refinery
02 1st stage ejector of a two staged vacuum system for desalination plant
03 Spare nozzles for ejectors in nuclear power plant
04 2nd stage ejector of two staged vacuum system for desalination plant
05 Inductive Factor 1 sensors
06 2nd stage ejector + start-up ejector of a two staged vacuum system for desalination plant
07 1st stage ejector of a two staged vacuum system for desalination plant with start-up ejector
08 Water ejector for drains extraction system
09 Booster ejector of three staged vacuum system for refinery

Vacuum Systems

Vacuum System Ejectors are utilized in series or in parallel to operate over a very large range of conditions, as well as at lower absolute suction pressures compared to a single stage unit.

Vacuum Systems
01 SINGLE STAGE EJECTOR
02 3 STAGED EJECTOR WITH INTERCONDENSER BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD STAGE
03 3 STAGED EJECTOR SYSTEM WITH INTERCONDENSERS
04 2 STAGED EJECTOR SYSTEM WITH INTERCONDENSERS
05 4 STAGED EJECTOR SYSTEM
06 2 STAGED EJECTOR SYSTEM
07 5 STAGED EJECTOR SYSTEM

Gland Condensers

Gland Condensers are small heat exchangers used to condense the steam that leaks past the first section of seals within the shaft of a steam turbine.

Whenever the turbine exhausts into a vacuum system, it is necessary to inject the sealed steam within the seals to keep away the low-pressure end of the turbine from drawing in atmospheric air.

This sealing steam from the low-pressure end and the normal leakage from the high-pressure end would tend to leak out and blow towards the bearing housing. To reduce the chance of this leakage causing an accumulation of water in the lube oil system, we use a gland steam condenser to draw a very small vacuum (typically 2 or 3 in-Hg) within the outer section of the shaft seals.

Gland Condensers

Heat Exchangers

Heat Exchangers are static machines to condensate vapors and steam by using a cooling fluid flow.

In AB Progetti exchangers, the cooling media usually flows into the tubes and the Shell contains the steam and vapors to be condensate. The Heat Exchangers can be deployed in many engineering processes, such as preheaters, gland condensers, and vacuum system condensers.

Just like the ejectors, Heat Exchangers have no moving parts, and hence maintenance cost is low, and operation is relatively constant when corrosion is not a factor. They also have a quiet, stable, and user-friendly operation.

Heat Exchangers
01 stainless steel
02 special alloys like Incoloy or Hastelloy
03 copper alloys
04 titanium

Liquid Ejectors

The Liquid Ejector system is different from the traditional steam ejector system because its motive fluid is a liquid rather than the traditional steam. The Liquid Ejectors are Venturi jet devices. The motive liquid is flowed through the nozzle and into the mixing chamber. As the cross-sectional area of the mixing chamber is reduced, the velocity of the liquid is increased.

Liquid Ejectors

Thermo Compressor

These jet pumps are usually used to reduce the loss of low-pressure steam. The popular advantages of Thermo Compressors, as well as Ejectors, are high reliability and low maintenance cost requirement over the plant’s life. Thermo Compressors are used in a lot of industrial processes that are mostly carried out within vacuum condition – such as evaporation, distillation, cooling, crystallization, deodorization, degassing, drying, and so on. They are also used as heating pumps at pressures equal to or higher than the barometric pressure.

Thermo Compressor
01 Diverse fields of application
02 High safety operation (no moving parts involved)
03 High Reliability
04 Low manufacturing cost due to the simplicity of design
05 Low maintenance cost