Optar Technologies - Filter Houses and Retrofits, Upgrades and Replacements

UK-based Optar Technologies is a specialist rotating machinery engineering company, providing air filter house performance products and services for gas turbines and compressors.

We continue to push the boundaries of GT air intake filtration to provide the cleanest air to GT compressors.

Duct work, silencer and filter house retrofit projects

Optar has successfully completed OEM and retrofit projects both in the UK and worldwide, including duct work, silencers and filter houses for a substantial refinery expansion; a seven-day filter house removal and replacement project; and technical services reviews.

We provide project management for a wide range of services on time and on budget. Providing high-quality support before, during and after all projects undertaken is a key management requirement of Optar.

Filter house design and upgrades

Optar designs and builds rotating machinery filter houses. Whether it is supply or installation only, or a full design, manufacture and installation project, we are committed to achieving your objectives. We will help you to achieve your goals with the maximum reliability and efficiency at a realistic and controlled cost.

Maintenance offered includes the supply of filters through to filter house design upgrades.

Filter house 3D design and modelling

With state-of-the-art 3D CAD design and modelling, Optar provides design solutions for a complete range of filter houses. We have the capability to virtually complete all projects before any steel is cut and eliminate risk at both the manufacturing and installation stages of the project.

Optar then presents the completed design to the customer, enabling them to make changes and be certain that the requirements have been understood and expectations will be met. With 3D mark up of designs and Optar's web-based document exchange, no part of the design and build is more than a click away.

Due to the vertical integration of our design, we are able to respond to changing requirements throughout the design process quickly and efficiently with full sets of updated drawings often available on the day of notification of change.

GT air intake systems

Optar provides a wide range of project management and support services to gas turbine and compressor OEM and aftermarket customers. This includes the design, supply, installation and maintenance of advanced gas turbine air intakes to the procurement of 100 pad coalescers.

We develop trusting and long-term relationships with our customers and position ourselves to offer advice at any time on any aspect of GT air intake systems in the power industry.

Filter supply, design validation and upgrades

With an increased need to improve filtration on existing plants, Optar provides a full range of support services. These include design validation, structural capability, improvements through flow analysis and DP consideration, and detailed payback from efficiency improvements and carbon emission reduction.

Filter house maintenance

Optar provides on-site support to filter house end users for standard maintenance requirements. With our understanding of the expensive damage and consequential losses that can result from 'foreign object damage' to compressors on large rotating plants, we have been trusted with maintaining some of the largest gas turbine filter houses in the UK as well as offering filter change support in the EU and worldwide.

Filter engineering, maintenance and project management services

Optar provides a full range of site support from engineering supervision and maintenance recommendations to turnkey project management of multi-filter house maintenance programmes.

Filter house supply projects

Optar has been successful in securing a major project to supply two filter houses, silencers and duct work to the largest industrial expansion project ever undertaken. The project has been a success and we continue to be involved on future projects with this major internationally renowned organisation.

Having gained certification for ISO 9001, our quality assurance procedures are constantly monitored and audited to ensure our high level of customer service is maintained and improved where possible.