Oil-free screw compressor SCR-160 GV 160 kW motor power, FAD 1 548 Nm³/h at 7 bar, air cooling, variable-speed drive, pressure 7 / 8 / 10 bar

Product detailed description

160 kW · class 0

SCR-160 GV is an oil-free screw compressor with a 160 kW motor, air-cooled and fitted with a variable-speed drive. It is supplied in three pressure versions: 1 548 Nm³/h at seven bar, 1 530 at eight and 1 320 at ten. The air is compressed by two screw blocks in two stages and the rotors are never lubricated — so the compressed air contains no oil, not filtered out, but none at all. The outlet is DN 65, the noise level 80 dB(A).

What the designation SCR-160 GV means

The number in the designation is the motor power in kilowatts, the letters after it say two things. Without a W the machine is air-cooled, V at the end means a variable-speed drive. Cooling is handled by radial fans. The machine needs no extra connection, but it releases its heat into the compressor room — count on ventilation. The INOVANCE drive with vector control matches the speed to the current demand, so idle running largely disappears. It holds high torque from 0.1 Hz — ordinary drives either do not work below 5 Hz or are inefficient there.

What is inside the SCR-160 GV

Two stages, two blocks

The air passes through two screw blocks one after the other. The first stage compresses it to roughly 2 bar, an intercooler cools it down and the second stage pushes it up to the outlet pressure. The rotors are never lubricated — the first stage is carbon steel, the second stainless, both with an MoS₂ based coating. The rotor space is separated from the gearbox by a labyrinth seal and a hermetic stainless one, and the shafts run in SKF bearings.

Why a coating instead of oil

Where a lubricated machine injects oil into the block, here the friction is cut by a molybdenum disulphide coating on the rotors and on the inner wall of the housing. According to the manufacturer this markedly extends the time between overhauls — and replacing the whole block is exactly the most expensive item an oil-free machine can bring.

Three pressure versions, three order numbers

The machine is ordered in one of three pressures and it is set at the factory — it is not a switch on the panel. A higher pressure is always paid for in air: between seven and ten bar it costs 15 % of the output with exactly the same 160 kW motor. So it is worth finding out what pressure the end use really needs instead of buying a reserve blindly.

Because the machine has a drive, it can also throttle down smoothly — the smallest model in the series gets as far down as 150 Nm³/h, which is its lower control limit, not its rated output.

What the machine will ask of the plant

How much space it takes and how loud it is

The machine measures 2 880 × 1 960 × 2 110 mm (L × W × H) and weighs 4 300 kg, so it takes up 5.64 m² of floor. Neither the dimensions nor the weight differ between the three pressure versions. At 80 dB(A) it belongs in a separate compressor room — this is industrial machinery, not a machine to stand beside a workstation. The heat goes into the room, so count on ventilating the compressor room — at 160 kW that is no detail. The compressed air outlet is DN 65.

What the machine consumes

For every cubic metre of air per minute the seven-bar version draws roughly 6.2 kW of rated motor power (160 kW for 25 800 l/min). At the higher pressures it is worse, because the motor power stays the same and the air output drops. It is a figure worked out from the manufacturer table, so it can be compared directly with the machine you are weighing up alongside it. Actual consumption goes lower, though: the drive holds the speed at whatever you are drawing, so at partial load the machine does not take full power.

SCR9000 control

A colour seven-inch touch display or eight navigation buttons. It shows the pressure, the temperature, the energy consumption and the hours run, keeps an eye on service intervals and returns to operation by itself after a power failure. Over Modbus RS485 the SCR-160 GV can be built into network control of up to sixteen compressors — with machines this size such sets are built routinely.

Where the air from the SCR-160 GV is used

An oil-free machine is not bought for comfort, but because nothing else will do. The manufacturer names six fields — in every one of them the air touches the product, the packaging or a person.

Equipment and accessories

What the SCR-160 GV does as standard

• Oil-free class 0 air to ISO 8573-1
• Two-stage compression, two screw blocks with an intercooler
• Rotors and housing wall with an MoS₂ based coating, double stainless steel seal
• Radial and axial SKF bearings
• Cooling by air, radial fans
• INOVANCE variable-speed drive with vector control
• A choice of 7, 8 or 10 bar, outlet DN 65
• SCR9000 controller with a colour display
• Energy consumption metering, four pressure bands, weekly run scheduling
• Modbus RS485 and network control of up to sixteen compressors

What can be ordered on top

• Cyclone water separator integrated into the machine
• Heat recovery — a water-to-oil exchanger for heating service water
• HOC preparation for a loss-free heat-regenerated dryer
• PM motor with permanent magnets, IE4 efficiency
• Vibration diagnostics — sensors watching the condition of the bearings

How it differs from neighbouring machines

The choice between air and water comes first: the same 160 kW and 1 548 Nm³/h at seven bar are delivered by the water-cooled SCR-160 WGV, one dB(A) quieter. Without a variable-speed drive, with a fixed speed and a weight of 4 000 kg instead of 4 300 kg, comes the SCR-160 G. One step lower in the same design stands the SCR-132 GV: 132 kW and 1 380 Nm³/h at seven bar.

The FAD output is measured to ISO 1217 and is given for each of the three pressures in which the machine is supplied; figures at other frequencies are available from the manufacturer in technical data sheets on request. The noise level is given at a distance of 1 m from the machine with a tolerance of ± 3 dB(A). The air purity class is defined by ISO 8573-1.