Thermojet Equipment in Brazil

In mid-2023, our Company in Brazil, Lubritech do Brasil decided to invest in bringing 10 Thermojet oil purifying equipment to Brazil for immediate delivery or service, due to the growing demand from the Industry to solve problems of contamination by water, particles, gases and varnish; in different equipment such as Steam Turbines, Gas Turbines, Paper Machines, Compressors and Centrifugal Pumps.

With an installed base of more than 120 equipment in Brazil, Thermojet technology has proven to be a reliable solution for removing contaminants over the past 25 years. The main feature of the Thermojet purifying equipment is its autonomous way of working, that is, 24×7 without the need for a full-time operator, we could say that it is a “plug & play” equipment. Several turbine and compressor manufacturers integrate Thermojet equipment as part of the machine’s Lubrication and Control System.

The equipment arrived in Brazil, was certified by Inmetro, and after 2 months, only 4 remain available for sale and/or service provision in our facilities. We hope to have them operating soon and adding value to our client’s facilities.

This technology is available to offer in Latin America, Europe and around the world. We invite you to watch a video on how the equipment works, and find more information at https://sicelub.com/en/solutions-sicelub-lubritech-group/#tab-id-2

Thermojet video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHm6zFc_wgY

We attach photos of our available equipment, and some of them operating in the plant.

If you have any needs, you can contact us via email at info@sicelub.com or comment on this post requesting more information.

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Big Turnaround in Brazil

Our Company in Brazil carried out a Programmed Shutdown intervention in 6 Turbomachines and Various Hydraulic Systems in an important Refinery.

It is noteworthy that we were hired by Service Companies that took the Scheduled Shutdown, and not by the end customer; although he was involved throughout the entire process.

The job was performed with high standards of Safety, Quality and within the time available to carry out the tasks.

 

We want to thank all the Lubritech do Brasil staff during the execution of these activities, as well as our clients for trusting us.

If you want to receive more detailed information about our High ​​Velocity Oil Flushing, please visit our website www.sicelub.com; or send an email to info@sicelub.com

We share some photographs of our recent work during this Plant Stop.

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Visit of Reladyne Management to South America

During March, we received in South America to Mr. Todd Cass, Vice President of Reladyne Reliability Services.

In this trip, we were in Lubritech do Brasil and Lubritech Peru, we had internal meetings with our sales, operational and administrative team, and we also visited customers and strategic partners for our business in South America.

The team presented strategic and tactic plans for Brazil, Argentina and Perú, and we reviewed safety, financial, commercial and operational KPI’s, that show the strong growing of Grupo Sicelub Lubritech in the last 4 years.

We highlight all the innovative services and products that introduce to the market, mostly related with Varnish prevention and removal. All this information is in our section “News” in our web page www.sicelub.com

From Grupo Sicelub Lubritech we would like to thanks our Management Team for this visit, and also to our Team in South America for the commitment, preparation of agenda and all the presentations.

We want to share to our customers that we hope to be better prepared for delivering services with Safety and Quality. If you want to know more about Grupo Sicelub Lubritech, you can reach us at info@sicelub.com or send us a WhassApp to +34 616 54 70 86.

We attach some pictures of the trip.

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Training for Pemex-Refining

For Reladyne/Sicelub, it’s important to share our knowledge about comprehensive lubrication and the operation of LubriMist® mist lubrication systems, models CVT4 and CVT8.

That’s why, this February, Sicelub provided training to over 60 individuals from the Pemex-Refining operational staff for the “Gas Plant at Olmeca-Dos Bocas Refinery” and the “Coking Plant at Miguel Hidalgo Refinery in Tula.”

These theoretical-practical courses, totaling 40 hours, were conducted by the Operations Manager, Engineer Isaac Mendez, along with the operations team consisting of Engineer Eddy Echeverria and Engineer Odette Ojeda.

During these courses, clients were provided with information about the basic principles of lubrication, mist lubrication, as well as operational details under normal conditions and when the mist generation equipment is experiencing faults or alarms.

 

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Filtration and Flushing in a Thermosolar Plant in Spain

Sicelub Ibérico has just performed an intervention in a Steam Turbine in Spain. We are helping to increase availability and Reliability in Renewable Energy Industry.

Customer had detected an increase in changing filter elements. When we performed the root cause analysis, we realized that this problem was due to water presence causing corrosion in the material of the oil reservoir.

We designed an action plan for online filtration until next Turnaround. During the Outage, we performed a complete cleaning of the system, including mechanical cleaning of the reservoir. We removed the oil lubricant from the reservoir and filter them in an external tank. Once we completed the cleaning of the reservoir, we filled out with lubricant being sure that the ISO Code was lower than recommended by Normative and OEM. It can be here the evolution of the cleanliness.

When Steam turbine started-up, we realized that water content was higher than allowed, and we installed an Oil Purifier Thermojet for solving this new issue.
Steam turbine is now generating energy and we continue monitoring oil contamination levels, to prevent future problems.

From Sicelub Iberico we had there to Marcelino Castejón, Noelia Velarde and Ander Arenas.
We would like to say thanks to our customer for calling us!

 

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Culture of Intervention

During the months of November and December, personnel from our Company in Argentina have participated in scheduled interventions regarding Safety, within the “MAS CONCIENCIA” Culture Program, carried out by YPF in the Luján de Cuyo Industrial Complex (CILC).

 

Within the Safety Culture Program that has been developed at CILC since 2021, Intervention Culture is a part of the program that is exclusively dedicated to developing habits of mutual care.

Faced with the need to raise awareness that we build security among all people, we seek to promote individual responsibility, but with even greater emphasis on collective prevention.

 

“Once observation begins, risks begin to be seen and perceived in all areas, many of which we did not even realize were there.”

 

The entire work team is seeking to generate intervention habits for another person, regardless of the company, plant, and/or hierarchical level that may be exposed to an incident.

 

The aim is to move from a reactive model to a preventive one, with safer work environments, where we are all protagonists.

 

For Lubritech Argentina, as part of the Reladyne Group, this program is 100% aligned with our objectives and culture in terms of Safety. We are even taking several examples of this implementation to share it with other collaborators and Refineries that we serve in other Countries. We think that good things must be replicated, and this program is really good, and points to a cultural change.

 

The interventions carried out as part of this process; They have been very enriching, both for our Company and for those intervened, since the right environment has been created to analyze together the risks associated with the task that was being carried out; recognize good practices and find better ways to mitigate risks.

 

It is worth highlighting the complete involvement of both YPF and the Contractor Companies, at all levels, from Senior Management and Direction, to the Operators. It is more than clear that we all do Safety!

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Reliable Plant 2023

We have just completed our participation in the major event in Lubrication Reliability in the World, #Reliable Plant Conference 2023”, was performed between July 31st and August 3rd, in Orlando, USA.

The most important players in the world attended, and we, in Sicelub Lubritech Group couldn’t stay out, we also presented our solutions and expertise.

During 4 days, more than 100 presentations were showed about success cases, new technologies and workshops about best practices in lubrication.

We would like to thank all the visitors to our Booth, you helped to reach our objective with our presence there. We also thank to Leonardo Cardoso, Grupo Sicelub Lubritech’ representative during the Show.

We share some pictures, and if you want to have additional information, please reach us at www.sicelub.com; send an email to info@sicelub.com; or write a WhatsApp message to +34 616 54 70 86.

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Training Sessions in Spain

Our Company in Spain has hired an Oil Mist and Thermojet specialist with more than 13 years of background in the Market. Ricardo Allais started working in Sicelub Iberco focused in two Oil Mist Installation Project in a very important Refinery in South of Spain.

Given the presence of Ricardo in Spain we arranged a training session with our team in another Refinery where Sicelub Ibérico has a Service Contract.

Ricardo performed a theorical session with our team in the classroom, and also a site visit for reviewing Oil Mist Generators

Corrective and preventive maintenance were performed together.

We would like to say thanks to our team and communicate to our customers that we have the capability to perform Oil Mist Installation Projects, Maintenance, etc.

We share some pictures, and if you want to have additional information, please reach us at www.sicelub.com; send an email to info@sicelub.com; or write a WhatsApp message to +34 616 54 70 86.

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Recent Projects in Peru

Our group continues performing several projects, given the high demand from our customers. During July, we would like to share with our community information of recent services in Lubritech Peru.

We got a contract for removing water and particles in a very important Refinery. We performed services in 4 Hydrogen Compressors reaching low water levels in 4 days, and ISO 4406 Codes in 3 days. We used filtration skids of 20 GPM, using filter elements of 34” with efficiency of 99.9 for particles of 3 microns. We also used a Thermojet H-4500 for removing water.

On the other hand, we got a contract in a Thermoelectrical Power Plant for performing a filtration in two Siemens turbines.

We were able to perform the jobs reaching the highest levels of safety and quality, reaching ISO Codes in 4 days per turbine.

You can know more of our solutions at https://sicelub.com/en/solutions-sicelub-lubritech-group/.

We would like to thank to our Customer and our team for their commitment. We share some pictures, and if you want to have additional information, please reach us at www.sicelub.com; send an email to info@sicelub.com; or write a WhatsApp message to +34 616 54 70 86.

 

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Chemical Cleaning and Oil Flushing in Hydraulic System in Furnace

During august, our Company, Lubritech Argentina performed a cleaning chemical and high velocity oil flushing in a hydraulic system for a furnace in a very important metallurgical Company in the west of Argentina.

We performed a design of different cleaning circuits, using bypass and manifolds to reach every point of the system.

We used chemical products for initial stage, performing degreasing, acid removal, phosphatize, and passivation of internal of piping. Then, we performed high velocity oil Flushing using the original fluid of the system, reaching turbulent flows. We got different sample to analyze and find the ISO 4406 Code.

The Project was completed in the scheduled time. Customer provided a good feedback regarding Safety, Quality and results.

Our technicians were Andrés Yamin, César Zulatto, Josué Buozi y Nazareno Marinelli.

You can see some pictures and videos.

We would like to thank to our Customer and our team for their commitment. We share some pictures, and if you want to have additional information, please reach us at www.sicelub.com; send an email to info@sicelub.com; or write a WhatsApp message to +34 616 54 70 86.

 

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