Case Studies

Application Summaries:

Boiler Feed Pump (Coal Power Plant) – Turkish Electric Generating Company evaluated the performance of the ISOPur® system by testing it at one of the EUAS plants and reported the positive results to all of the plants within EUAS.

Gas Turbine – Refined Sugar, Inc. has an independent power station on the premises for the purpose of refining sugar. This power plant generates half the plant electricity via a Caterpillar Solar gas turbine, which was experiencing sludge and varnish problems. Also review our Gas Turbine Application Brief.

Hydraulic Test Stand – A large manufacturer of automotive actuators and sensors was experiencing high rejection rates due to contamination of hydraulic fluid in a test stand.

Machine Tool – A manufacturer of highly precise devices that uses hydraulically driven forming machinery finds that contamination is affecting product yields.

Marine – In a study sponsored by Bath Iron Works, The marine vessel ‘State of Maine’ has three Ship Service Diesel Generators (SSDG) units, which require constant lubricating oil purification.

Power Plant – The Vero Beach Municipal Power Plant serves the City of Vero Beach, which demands stronger energy production because of the recent growth in the area.

Pulp & Paper – Kimberly Clark (Mexico) had sticking valves, production down-time, and product quality on their Industrial Paper Machine #4. All were quickly and drastically reduced by purifying the lubricating oil with ISOPur.

Pulp & Paper – A large, multi-national paper company was experiencing seven servo valve failures per year because of sticky contamination within the small valve clearances.

Steam Turbine – A major New England based pharmaceutical company’s co-generation power plant was regularly experiencing oil-related failures on four 6 megawatt steam turbines.

Servo Valve – At Yale University, constant sticking on servo valves caused frequent interruptions of three Nuovo Pignone PGT-5M Gas Turbines.

Tap Changer – Consolidated Edison, a regulated utility, was experiencing carbon buildup on the insulators as well as the copper contacts in their tap changers due to heavily contaminated transformer oil.

Turbo Compressor – A major global compressor manufacturer is constantly finding varnish problems during teardowns.