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One 1% DECON™ AO Addition More Than Doubled RPVOT | Solar Mars 90S Gas Turbine, Offshore Qatar
Read more here:
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#fluitec #petrotec #qatar #casestudy
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Join that team at ExpoMant this week in Peru!
Be sure to stop by and say hello to our team members, Jorge Sánchez, MLT I, MLA I, VPR, VIM.
See you there!
#fluitec #expomant #peru #maintenance
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Varnish Potential from MONITOR to NORMAL in 42 Days | DECON™ on a GE Frame 6B Gas Turbine, Batam, Indonesia
Read more here: zurl.co/pNvoB
#fluitec #indonesia #varnish
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Eight months after a plant upgraded to tighter bolted hydrogen seals, its seal oil flow fell from 30 L/min (8 gpm) to 3.8 L/min (1 gpm).
Read the whitepaper, "Innovative Solutions to Address Lube Varnish in Hydrogen Seals"
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#fluitec #Varnish
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Did you miss Greg Livingstone's latest article with Machinery Lubrication?
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In “The Two Signals in Every Cleanliness Code”, Greg argues that every ISO 4406 particle count carries two separate pieces of information.
#fluitec #ISO #cleanliness #newarticle
4,545 km Overnight to Save a Critical Compressor | DECON™ A on an MHI Ethylene Refrigeration Compressor, China
More than 1,300% ROI from avoiding a single hour of shutdown
Find out more here:
zurl.co/v55FS
#fluitec
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Most turbine oil is changed while the base oil is still healthy. It's condemned because the antioxidants ran out.
Read the whitepaper: "The Journey to Fill4Life™"
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#fluitec #Fill4Life #TurbineOil #Sustainability #Lubrication #AssetManagement
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Every line on this oil analysis report said "acceptable". The oil had no antioxidants left.
Read the whitepaper: "Why Hydraulic Fluids Fail" by Jo Ameye and Greg Livingstone
zurl.co/gZfsT
#fluitec #HydraulicFluids #OilAnalysis #Varnish #ConditionMonitoring #Reliability
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A thrust bearing pad at 112 °C (234 °F) with a trip setpoint at 125 °C (257 °F) on a compressor the ethylene cracker can't run without.
There was no trip, no shutdown and no derate, and the plant is budgeting for five more drums.
zurl.co/UzEM3
#Fluitec #Varnish #DECON
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In badly degraded heat transfer systems, the oil can solidify.
Read the whitepaper: "Innovative Technology to Improve the Efficiency of Heat Transfer Systems" by Rob Meldrum (ExxonMobil) and Greg Livingstone (Fluitec)
zurl.co/9NCLb
#fluitec #HeatTransfer #Reliability
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A turbine oil with a long estimated life can still leave a lot of varnish behind.
Read "High Thermal Stress Turbine Oil Specifications for Modern Gas Turbines" by Ludger Quick, Greg Livingstone and Jo Ameye
zurl.co/SaGlF
#fluitec #GasTurbines #Varnish #PowerGeneration
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An oil change is only as good as the system you pour the new oil into.
A varnish-related trip on this unit is estimated at USD 50,000 to 120,000 per event. The treatment cost significantly less than a single unplanned outage
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#Varnish #Lubrication #Fluitec
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Oil analysis alone may not tell you a bearing is varnishing. Its temperature trace might.
Read: "Correlation between Lube Oil Condition & Bearing Temperatures" by Greg Livingstone and Sanya Mathura
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#fluitec #Varnish #ConditionMonitoring #Reliability
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The oil in your heat transfer system is hotter than your gauge says it is.
Read: "Improving production of heat transfer fluid systems with solvency enhancers" by Jo Ameye and Greg Livingstone
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#fluitec #HeatTransfer #ThermalFluids #Reliability #Lubrication
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From Jakarta to Singapore: growing Mobil™ SOLVANCER® across Asia 🌏
The Fluitec team continued their Asia tour with visits to ExxonMobil and Mobil distributor teams in Indonesia and Singapore.
#Varnish #PulpAndPaper #ExxonMobil #Mobil #Brenntag #Fluitec #Indonesia #Singapore
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Can 1% really make a difference?
Yes, it actually doubled the life of an oil in an offshore gas turbine in Qatar!
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#fluitec #deconao #petrotec #offshore #gasturbines #varnish #reliability
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A turbine that runs one week in four isn't "lightly used". For its oil, it may be the hardest duty cycle there is.
Read "Protecting Lubricants in Standby and Intermittent Service" by Vanda Franco and Greg Livingstone
zurl.co/4wdqi
#fluitec #TurbineOil #Varnish
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What a great week with the Mobil team in China 🇨🇳
JJ and Roger recently spent time with ExxonMobil China and Mobil distributors, sharing how Mobil™ Solvancer® technology is helping customers deal with varnish.
#Fluitec #MobilSolvancer #Varnish #ExxonMobil #Mobil #China
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Twenty-five years into studying varnish, we've solved most of the problem. Here's the piece that's still open.
Greg Livingstone, Jo Ameye and Sanya Mathura go through 25 years of findings
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#fluitec #Varnish #TurbineOil #OilAnalysis #ReliabilityEngineering
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The fastest-growing fluid market in our industry right now has nothing to do with turbines or gearboxes. It's servers, submerged in dielectric fluid.
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#fluitec #DataCenters #ImmersionCooling #FluidTechnology #Sustainability
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