Cooper offers the Gemini line of API 11P high-speed reciprocating compressors, providing our customers with economic, flexible, and reliable solutions to meet their gas compression needs. Our high-speed reciprocating products range from 60 hp (45 kW) to 7,200 hp (5,370 kW), with a variety of piston rod load capacities and frame stroke combinations. Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, over 15,000 of our compressors can be found around the globe, working in fuel-gas boosting, gas gathering, gas lift, compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling, and pipeline and storage/withdrawal applications.
The best way to keep your Gemini compressors performing to its full potential is with OEM Cooper parts designed specifically for the job. With decades of engineering, manufacturing, and in-field experience in material wear and customer demand patterns, our parts inventory system is designed to reflect and respond to the real needs of modern operating conditions. Whether you have a current Gemini model or one of our legacy brands, we’ll have the parts you need when you need them.
| Mobile | 281-201-7386 |
| Jimmy.Baker@CooperServices.com | |
| Mobile | 832-978-9762 |
| Steve.Phillips@CooperServices.com | |
Our field service technicians have the most comprehensive on-machine analysis capabilities in the industry. Our portable diagnostics systems are much less intrusive than on-board systems. In fact, they actually reduce the number of on-board sensors required. We can perform a full range of comparative and trend analyses and diagnostics at your site to improve the performance, mechanical condition, and reliability of your high-speed compressors. In-field monitoring by a Cooper specialist enables immediate action to increase the efficiency and operating performance of your Gemini high-speed reciprocating compressors.
As the OEM, Cooper provides technology and engineering services for Gemini separable compressors. With our advanced technologies, expertise, and project management experience, we offer Gemini compressors upgrades to improve efficiency, reliability, and maintenance costs.
To further strengthen our upgrade portfolio for Gemini separable compressors, Cooper acquired HOERBIGER’s Engines Services (HES) division in 2019. Cooper now offers even more upgrade technologies for all our engine and compressor lines, including Gemini.
Gemini’s legacy dates to 1870 when August Witte opened Witte Iron Works in Kansas City, Kansas. For decades after, August and his son, Ed Witte, continued to grow their business producing gasoline and diesel engines for generators and agriculture use. Gemini Motors bought Witte Engine and converted the engine for natural gas usage and compression.
Energy Industries was established in 1969 by B. D. Holt and Mark Hulings. Energy Industries provided gas compression powered by Caterpillar engines, and they had purchased the line of high-speed compressors from Chicago Pneumatic, redesigning the compressors and cylinders into the high-speed compressor that we know today.
Gemini eventually bought Energy Industries to expand the line of high-speed compression that would evolved into the Gemini equipment of today.
| Code | Title | Description | Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| GMC20004 | Compressor VVCP upgrade | Control capacity and efficiently adjust the compressor throughput and power. | Efficiency |
| GMC20005 | Compressor Sour Gas VVCP upgrade | Meet API and NACE standards with sour gas compliant cylinders. | Reliability Efficiency |
| GMC20006 | Flexflow Cylinders | Cooper offers a variety of FlexFlow cylinders available for mounting on larger frames. All cylinders are featured with liners that allow for changing inner cylinder bore diameter without a need of replacing entire cylinder body. | Efficiency |
| Lubrication System | Lubrication System | Protect your investment with a leading lubrication system. Optimized design, maximized compressor valve life, reduced lube oil carryover, preventative equipment damage and downtime, and fail-safe protection for your critical machinery. | Efficiency, Emission, Reliability, Maintenance |
| Retrofit vs. New | Compressor Package Retrofit | Cooper offers complete reconfigured compressor package solutions for your legacy equipment. | Repurposing |
| GMC20010 | Next-Gen H302 H304 Series | Cooper is pleased to introduce the next generation of Gemini compressors with the release of the H302 and H304 upgrade kits for Gemini 3-stage compressors. | Reliability, Performance, Maintenance |
| Frame Series | M Series | H Series | A Series | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frame Model | M301 | M302 | H301 | H302 | H304 | A351 | A352 | A354 |
| Number of throws | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Max power (hp) (kW) | 60 45 | 120 89 | 100 75 | 200 149 | 400 298 | 200 149 | 400 298 | 800 597 |
| Stroke (in/mm) | 3 / 76 | 3 / 76 | 3.5 / 89 | |||||
| Max RPM | 1,800 | 1,800 | 1,800 | |||||
| Combined rod load (lbf/kN) | ||||||||
| Tension | 6,000 / 27 | 10,000 / 44 | 14,500 / 64 | |||||
| Compression | 6,000 / 27 | 10,000 / 44 | 12,500 / 56 | |||||
| Total | 12,000 / 53 | 20,000 / 89 | 27,000 / 120 | |||||
| Main bearing diameter (in/mm) | 3 / 76 | 3 / 76 | 3.25 / 83 | |||||
| Piston rod diameter | 1.125 / 29 | 1.125 / 29 | 1.375 / 35 | |||||
| Crankshaft material | Forged Steel | Forged Steel | Forged Steel | |||||