Varnish Removal Flushing in Gas Turbine in Argentina

Lubritech Argentina had just completed an important job in a Power Plant in Vaca Muerta, Neuquén, Argentina. We performed a Varnish Removal Flushing Service in a Gas Turbine, model LMS-100, with more than 7,000 Gallons, ISO VG 32 Turbine Oil, 5 years and MPC close to 30.

 

Our Project lead was Andrés Yamín, and our Flushing Technician was Josué Buozi. They had local manpower support. When the Turnaround started, we added 350 Gallons of surface cleaner product using our Thermojet Oil Purifier. We started circulation, heating the oil, and MPC grew up to 39, which indicates that the product is getting dissolved the varnish from the system.

 

After 24 hours of circulation, we drained the oil, and performed tank cleaning. The tanks was impregned with an orange lay. After the cleaning, we added flushing oil, just to remove any presence of product (according to ASTM D-6439), and MPC started in 30 and finished in 13.

 

Finally, we added the operation new oil, and kept Thermojet Oil Purifier with a High Filtration Skid to improve oil characteristic. MPC was 6, and ISO Code improved from 21/19/17 down to 15/14/11.

 

We would like to say thanks for customer confidence, thanks to our suppliers, and thanks to our local technicians for performing the job with high quality and safety.

 

We share some pictures of our job.

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Lunch and Learn in Chemical Industry in Nordeast Brazil

Our Company, Lubritech do Brasil, performed a lunch and learn event in October in a Chemical Plant in Brasil.

 

We introduced our technology and services focused on inccreasing Reliability and Availability of rotating equipment. We included the following topics:

 

  • High Velocity Oil Flushing.
  • Varnish Removal Flushing
  • Thermojet Oil Purifier.
  • ISOPur Oil Purifier. Balanced Charge Agglomeration.
  • Oil Mist Lubrication System for improving MTBF in centrifugal pumps.

 

We would like to thanks to Ricardo Bispo and Valdinei Silvia for performing the training and we hope to continue working with this Customer. Any doubt or comment, please, email us info@sicelub.com

 

We share some pictures.

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High Velocity Oil Flushing in Ethylene Plant in Argentina

Lubritech Argentina has just performed a big flushing service during a turnaround in an Ethylene Plant in Argentina. We would like to highlight that all Sicelub Lubritech Group has a big background on this kind of rotating equipment, we have performed similar services in Spain, Brazil and Argentina.

 

We were awarded after an open tender process, where we were the Company that was able to propose the best schedule for flushing service, at a lower cost, and with the best safety conditions.

 

We performed High Velocity Oil Flushing to all lubricating and hydraulic systems of the rotating equipment.

 

The flushing job was scheduled by our customer in 60 days, but we were able to complete the job in 45 days. We had high flow pumps (500 GPM), we applied pneumatic vibration and heated the oil up to 60 °C.

 

Our team was formed by 7 field technicians, 1 EHS and 1 Project Leader (Martín Videla). We worked in two shifts, to reach the lower time for performing the service.

 

We would like to say thanks to our Customer and our Staff in Lubritech Argentina. Not just to the personnel in the field, but also to the Staff that supported commercially and administrative from head offices in La Plata. We would like to share some pictures with you!

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Flushing in Commissioning

We started recently a ney Project in a Refinery in North of Perú. The Project is for “FHigh Velocity Oil Flushing in Steam Turbine GE-ST-20301 in Boiler B/C. It is very important to perform the cleaning of the system since this is directly related with the probability of having a non expected failure at Start of Operation of new Equipment.

The contract was awarded to Lubritech Perú Company. We performed movilization of equipment, hoses, flanges, bypasses, filtration equipment of 100 GPM, stainless steel filter housing, mesh filtration, etc.

We want to say thanks to our customers and our operational team for the opportunity of collaboration on this important Commissioning Project.

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Long Term Lubrication Contract PADELI in Spain

Sicelub Ibérico is performing a long-term lubrication contract in a Chemical Plant in Spain. The PADELI contract is focused on performing routine lubrication task, but with the focus on continuous improvement, using technology and specialized technicians. We know that best practices of lubrication improve reliability and availability of rotating equipment.

In the latest weeks, we performed grease lubrication using ultrasonic guns. This is a great improvement compared with manual lubrication or just “adding grease” to bearings.

On other hand, we performed MPC varnish testing in some equipment, and found high values, which indicates that varnish potential is high. Immediately, we connected an external equipment for removing varnish, and we reduced MPC from 42 down to 5, just in 2 weeks, for a reservoir of more than 1,000 Gallons.

You can find more information of our PADELI service in our web page and regarding varnish removal, Grupo Sicelub Lubritech will perform a free Webinar on September 21st.

We thank to our workforce in Spain, and we share some pictures of our job there!

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Turnaround Job in Chemical Plant in Brazil

Lubritech do Brasil has just completed the first stage of Turnaround Service in a big lubricating system (more than 12,000 Gallons of Oil) of a Turbo Compressor in a Chemical Plant in Brazil. We were there working more than 15 days, and we drained the oil, performed cleaning in oil reservoir, filter and fill the new charge. We reached a NAS 4 for cleanliness!

For this job, we utilized a filtration unit of 150 GPM, with two filter elements of 34” large and an Oil Purifier for removing water.

Second stage of the job, it would be focused on decreasing varnish potential in the system. For this, we will use a liquid product for improving solvency, and a Balance Charge Agglomeration Technology for removing varnish. ISOPur.

Technicians working in that Project were:

Marcos Santos, Edmilson Oliveira, Djalma Alves, Manuel Santos, Alexandre Adão Lopes and the external support of Edson Zillig in logistic.

You can see some pictures of the job.

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Technical meeting in Argentinian Refinery

Lubritech Argentina performed a meeting with several engineers and technicians of an important Refinery in Argentina, with the purpose of sharing technical knowledge in lubrication engineering. Focus was to review some normative topics and review practical applications during the day-by-day operation in the Plant.

Topics reviewed were:

  • Tribology and Lubrication. Basic Concepts.
  • Oil Analysis Program for Equipment in Refineries.
  • Contamination Control Actions during Turnaround.
  • Oil Purification for Turbomachinery.
  • Revision of Normative ASTM D4378, ASDM D6439 y API 614.

 

Cristian Schmid performed this training, and it was an intense interchange of comments between all participants. You can review more technical information in https://sicelub.com/webinars/.

You can see pictures of the training.

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Training in Peruvian Refinery

Durant August, our company, Lubritech Perú, performed a training in lubrication applications in a very important Refinery in Peru. This training was delivered to more than 30 professionals from operation, maintenance and engineering performing their activities in this Refinery. This is just one the first training that our company will perform for sharing knowledge about:

 

  • Tribology and Lubrication.
  • Lubricants Groups I, II, III, IV and V.
  • Oil Contamination and Degradation.
  • Oil Analysis according to ASTM.
  • Oil Reclamation inTurbomachinery.
  • Filtration and Flushing during Turnaround in Refineries.
  • Conventional Lubrication.

 

Training was performed by Roberto Romero. He has more tan 30 year in background in industrial lubrication in Refineries. Focus was practical application, reviewing techcnical concepts.

This training helps to improve Reliability and Availability on rotating equipment in Refineries. You can see some pictures of the training.

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Lubritech Perú Update!

Lubritech Perú has been working in 2022 with several projects in new Refinery in Perú, working with a first level Engineering and Procurement Company. We have recently completed the chemical cleaning of a Flexicocking Unit. We have generated and treated more than 2,900 m3 of effluents.

 

More than 30 technicians have worked with us in this project since 2021, achieving the high standards of quality, safety, and productivity. We continue performing projects of commissioning and start up of the Refinery for 2022-2023.

 

In the upcoming months, we will perform more high velocity oil flushing services in steam turbines from Boiler B and C.

Finally, we are acquiring more equipment for future activities in the Refinery. This better structure allow as to offer better service portfolio to all our customers in Peru.

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High Speed Oil Flushing during Turnaround in Spain. Hydraulic System.

Sicelub Iberico has completed a Service in a Turnaround in a very important Refinery in Spain. We have performed several High-Speed Flushing Services in Lubricating Systems and specially in a large hydraulic system. According to ASTM and OEM’s recommendations, it is important to achieve a high flow, and having in mind that piping is low diameter and large length, we need an equipment of high pressure (above 50 Bar) to perform the flushing!

All the services were performed in high Safety, Environmental and Quality based on Best Practices and Normative. OEM of hydraulic system was also performing maintenance Service in the Plant and recognizing that Sicelub has background and equipment for this kind of intervention in hydraulic systems.

We share two pictures. You can see a high-pressure skid for flushing in hydraulic systems and our conventional high-flow skid for flushing in lubricating systems.

We appreciate the help of all our involved collaborators during this project! If you want to know more about our Flushing services, you can get more information in https://sicelub.com/en/solutions-sicelub-lubritech-group/#tab-id-3-active or send an email to info@sicelub.com

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