Comprehensive Cleaning Technology & Advanced Oil Flushing Program is the Key to Reliable Operation of Large Turbo Units and Other Critical Rotating Equipment
Tomas Klima MSc Eng., Head of International Sales, Ecol Sp. z o.o
The rotating equipment like turbines, engines are the critical assets in the production facility where the equipment rotates the generators to produce electricity, compressors or pumps to deliver the products at certain condition. Reliability of the equipment significantly affect the productivity, products quality as well as the general costs.
The industry today focus on the oil quality, experience increasing demand on oil condition monitoring and purification systems. However, the oil system cleanliness is an issue that is either neglected or underestimated and the forgotten contamination source (rust, Varnish, sludge, assembly impurities, and dust) is the common basis of operation issues, forced stops and equipment damages.
With state of art cleaning method, Ecol is cleaning the large oil systems around the world and presents here how to achieve high oil system cleanliness. The hydrodynamic cleaning technology where all pipes and oil system components are intensively cleaned with high pressure water jets is described and presented on real photographs.
The second part of effective oil system cleaning and smooth equipment commissioning is oil flushing program. The crucial aspects of the well performed flushing are well structured KPIs and achieved high oil flows in all parts of the oil system. Using external flushing skid is Ecol understanding as the key factor of the successful oil flush. In order to achieve high flow rates in the oil system the pipes are bypassed with respect to its diameter, as well as all components restricting the oil flow needs to be bypassed and return lines fed with additional oil streams. Full flow filtration and all above mentioned aspects are the pillars of successful, short and on-time managed oil flushing process.