Visit of Reladyne Management to South America

During March, we received in South America to Mr. Scott Hill and Mr. Todd Cass, President and Vice President of Reladyne Reliability Services. Last time they visited us was in 2019, before pandemic started.

In this trip, we were in Lubritech do Brasil and Lubritech Argentina, 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, like Chemical Cleaning and High Velocity Oil Flushing during Commissioning, Varnish Mitigation Services, On-line filtration of Thermal Oil, and Services in Wind Power Industry. All this information is in our section “News” in our web page www.sicelub.com

It is very important to note that Corporate has been supporting Grupo Sicelub Lubritech with investment for increase our service ability, open new Service Centers in these Countries, to closer to our key customers.

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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One thousand followers in LinkedIn

Grupo Sicelub Lubritech is celebrating a great milestone. We have reached 1,000 followers in our LinkedIn page! We are very happy of sharing our news, projects and achievements with all of you.

Since two years ago, we launched a renewed web site, and since then, we have committed to keep it updated with news of our projects, hirings and more. We want that our followers are updated with all relevant news in our company and lubrication market.

We invite you to follow us in our social media, so, you can have latest updates of Grupo Sicelub Lubritech. You can also visit our web site and contact us if you are interested in working with us. You can send an email to info@sicelub.com, or a WhassApp message to +34 616 54 70 86.

We are committed to provide best services and products in lubrication engineering to our customers, and we hope that we can collaborate with you in the future.

Thanks a lot for your support and for follow us in LinkenIn!

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TermoGen 2023. Lubritech do Brasil

Grupo Sicelub Lubritech was present in the 8° Fórum Estratégico de Generación de Energía Eléctrica, TermoGen 2023, on March 2nd in Rio do Janeiro, Brazil. This is one of the major meetings for Power Gen in Latin America, and we presented technical data for “Varnish Control and removal in Turbines”. This event had the participation of the best players for power gen market OEM’s.

 

Our Company believes that being part of this meetings will help our customers to improve their reliability and availability for power generation.

 

Leonardo Cardoso performed the presentation in representation of Lubritech do Brasil.

 

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Innovative service in Argentina. Online Filtration in Hot Oil System

Lubricant oil can be used as a thermal transfer fluid, commonly known as Hot Oil; in different applications in Gas Production Plants, Asphalts heating, Termosolar Power Plants among others. This fluid usually works as 400 °F.

Sicelub Lubritech Group has background performing High Velocity Oil Flushing Services in Hot Oil System, when a fluid change is scheduled.

The innovation from our company is that we can perform on line filtration, at operational temperature with the following benefits:

  • It is no necessary to stop the system, which optimize production.
  • Fluid life is extended due to the contamination removal.

Firs job we performed in Argentina is an online Filtration to a Hot Oil System with 90,000 liters of fluid in a Gas Production Plant in the south of the country. We used a 100 GPM filtration skid, able to operate at high temperatures (up to 660 °F), and using filter elements with different β factors.

The Service was performed in Tierra del Fuego, parallel 52 South; for 15 days, starting with ISO Code of 26/24/21, reaching ISO Code 15/14/11, improving cleanliness in more than 500 times.

Our technicians involved in the job were Daniel Perez, Marcos Herrera, Andres Frezzini, y Rodrigo Coppiarolo; reporting to Martín Videla.

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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Flushing Services in Argentina and Brazil

January is usually a summer holyday month in Argentina and Brazil. In our Company, we have been working in both countries, and we want to share with you our news!

In Brazil, we performed a very important job in a big chemical plant in north of the country. The job was High Velocity Oil Flushing to an Alstom Turbo Generator. We performed cleaning in lubricating, control and jacking systems. Total of lubricant oil is 3,500 Gallons and for the service we used a 2,200 GPM unit, and Thermojet Oil Purifier.

We prepared and Engineering for bypasses and we were able to complete the scope before lead time. Our services were leaded by Alexandre Adao with other 3 lubrication technicians.

In the case of Argentina, we were performing the service in a Steel Mill Plant, where we performed Chemical Cleaning and High Velocity Flushing Services. We finished the job in the scheduled time. You can see a picture of “before” and “after” the cleaning.

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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Flushing Services in Peru during January

Lubritech Perú has successfully completed a Service of reservoir cleaning and lubricant Filtration in TG-01 in a Thermal Power Plant in Perú. More than 3,000 Gallons were extracted from the reservoir, filtered, and added to the reservoir after cleaning. In the attached pictures, dirty is observed in the reservoir prior to cleaning.

When an ISO Code of 16/14/10 (NAS 5) was reached, the job was completed.

Under this cleanliness level start up of the turbine is safer and operation is reliable, according to recommended by ASTM D-4378.

For this job we had 3 lubrication technicians, a 50 GPM filtration unit with β3 higher than 1,000.

Even during January, the team performed a Filtration to an Elliot turbo compressor in a Refinery to reach an ISO Code of 16/14/12. All the process was according to ASTM 6439-99, and we used a 20 GPM equipment with β3 higher than 1,000.

We would like to thanks to our team in Peru, and we go for more!

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Filtration Service in Steam Turbine in Concentrated Solar Power Plant

Grupo Sicelub Lubritech has been working in Renewables Energy since some years ago. We have performed services in Wind Turbines in Argentina and Brazil, and now, we continue working with Steam Turbines in Concentrated Solar Power Plant Industry. We have just finalized a service in Spain.

Solar Energy can be generated by two different processes. You probably are more familiar with photovoltaic cells, where energy from sun is directly converted into an electrical current.

There are other plants, called Concentrated Solar Plants (CSP) where Energy from sun is used to Heat up a fluid (hot oil) that is used to generate steam and move a steam turbine. This is the case of our recent service in Spain. We performed a filtration Service to a lubricating oil system of more of 6,000 Gallons of Oil in a very important Plant in Andalucía, Spain. The job was in a Nuovo Pignone Steam Turbine of 50 Mw.

The Service started when we drained the oil to an external tank, performed filtration until reach a lower ISO 4406 Code. We cleaned the oil reservoir and filled with filtered oil. Then, when oil started to circulate by the entire system, we continued with the filtration until reach ISO 16/14/12.

Using this procedure, we secured a safe start up of the turbine, and more reliable operation until the next turnaround, according to best practices recommended by ASTM D-4378.

On this jow, we had 2 field technicians, a filtration skid of 80 GPM using filter elements 34” length.

We also applied a high standard safety procedure to enter in the confined space, gas detector, fans for having fresh air. Beyond technical knowledge in lubrication, we are also specialist in Safety and Environmental.

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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High Velocity Services in Spanish Refinery

In last months, our Company in Spain, Sicelub Ibérico, has performed several high velocity flushing services in different rotating equipment in a very important Refinery in Spain. Historically, we haven’t performed services in that Refinery because logistic conditions that increased our cost. During 2022, we put actions in place to improve these conditions and being more competitive. We have hired high qualified technician there and optimized our freight costs.

 

We have performed services in centrifugal compressor, air compressor and reciprocating compressor.

 

  • Centrifugal Compressor in Lubricants Plant. The system had high cleanliness and particles, we started with ISO Codeo f 22/21/17 and just in 26 hours of Flushing we were able to get ISO 16/14/11.

 

  • Air Compressor in Auxiliary Services Plant. This system was in a maintenance tournaround and a flushing was performed. We used Re > 000 and performed the cleaning just in 12 hours, decreasing the ISO Code from 23/22/16 down to 16/15/12. We also performed Flushing in the coolers.

 

  • Reciprocating Compressor in Coker Unit. The system had problems related to metals, and during the Flushing we improved from 23/22/21 down to 15/13/9, in les of 24 hours, including cleaning of coolers.

 

Since we were present in the refinery, we were able to sampling critical equipment and provide good information to our customer for their predictive maintenance agenda.

 

Commercial Management was performed by José Julián Gómez, and Operative Job oversaw by Aitor García, with our field technicians Javier Villar and Stan Ursaki. Our administrative and EHS staff supported the team in the field.

 

We would like to say thanks to our customer and recognize the job of our team. You can see some pictures below!

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Maintenance Conference in Peru IPEMAN 22

Our Company, Lubritech Perú participated in the 22nd Conference of Engineering in Maintenance between Nov 17th and 19th in Lima, Peru. During this event, Lubritech Peru had a booth for introducing their solutions to the customers, and presented two interesting technical topics. A lot of attendants were present in the Conference and in our presentations.

Friday, Nov 18th, Mr. Cristian Schmid presented the topic “Varnish in Lubricating and Control Systems in Turbines” and Saturday Nov 19th, Mr. Roberto Romero presented the topic “Introduction to Oil Mist Lubrication”.

Both topics were very interesting for the attendants. Oil Mist started with its application in Peruvian Market recently with excellent results in Refineries, and varnish is a topic with high interest nowadays. The customers were looking for preventing and removing varnish techniques.

Our team in Perú was María Teresa, Marcos Meza, José Alejandro Zavala, Carlos Arévalo, Luis Yovera, Roberto Romero y Cristián Schmid.

We would like to say thanks to our employees customers and specially to IPEMAN for this opportunity to participate in this event.

We share with you some pictures and videos of this event!

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Meetings in Spain

In October, Sicelub Iberico in Spain had the visit of Roberto Romero, Manager for Perú and Argentina, and Cristián Schmid, General Manager of Sicelub Lubritech Group. During this period, they had high level meetings with customers of Spain and Perú, they visited a very important Engineering, Procurement and Construction Company with projects worldwide to analyze potential collaborations in Oil Mist Projects, High Velocity Oil Flushing Services and Oil Purification for Turbomachinery.

They also had internal meetings with the Sicelub Ibérico team and visit the local delegations in Spain.

Sicelub Ibérico operates in Spain, and perform services in Portugal in Italy. We started 20 years ago, and we have installed more than 120 oil mist systems (more than 2.500 pumps lubricated with oil mist); supplied more than 30 Thermojet and ISOPur Oil Purifiers, and performed more than 300 High Velocity Oil Flushing. Most of the biggest projects at the same time from 2017.

We currently have presence with Delegations in Cartagena, Vizcaya, Tarragona and Puertollano.

We highlight that 2022 was a very important year, where our customers performed some delayed projects due to the pandemic, and we have been able to continue growing reaching the target in Safety, Quality and Environment. We had our first audit process and renewed our ISO Certificates.

We would like to say thanks to our customers, employees, suppliers and we expect to continue offering our value proposition under the highest Standards of Ethics and Conduct!

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