Fluid Contamination

Choose Banlaw for your next project, and rest-assured that every drop will be delivered where you need it, when you need it. Brief summaries have been included of jobs in various categories. These range from the supply of a single loading arm, to fuel/lubricant management technologies on tank farms and fleets, all the way up to full turn-key fuel facilities with automated stock management and safety solutions.
Our LubeCentral range of couplings is designed to fill and evacuate a wide range of fluids. This helps all heavy industries, including mining and rail businesses that want to service key equipment cleanly, and quickly. LubeCentral products have been specifically created for the job. They avoid contamination and cross-contamination of fluids, and maximise flow rates due to engineering design focused on optimising the fluid path.
Modern engines and plant equipment are designed to offer increased efficiency, reduced emissions and longer service intervals. As a result, they are also more sensitive to fuel and oil contaminants. In particular, higher operating pressures within fuel systems to achieve a more complete combustion process leads to closer tolerances between moving parts, causing even smaller particles to have an effect on the clearances between these components. Modern ULSDs and biodiesels also pose an increased risk of microbial contamination, which left undetected, can seriously degrade the quality of the fuel and introduce other problems including reduced fuel filter life and accelerated corrosion of tanks, pipes and other metal system components.
Modern engines and plant equipment are designed to offer increased efficiency, reduced emissions and longer service intervals. As a result, they are also more sensitive to fuel and oil contaminants. In particular, higher fuel pressures within engines to achieve a more complete combustion lead to closer tolerances, causing even smaller particles to have an effect on the life and performance of fuel system components. Modern ULSDs and biodiesels also pose an increased risk of water (moisture) retention and microbial contamination, which left undetected and untreated, can seriously degrade the quality of the fuel, and introduce other problems including reduced fuel filter life and accelerated corrosion of tanks, pipes and other metal components.
Mtu Indonesia needed to minimise downtime caused by premature wear of fuel components. In the mine environment, particles were getting into the fuel through the unfi­ltered fuel tank vents. A super class mining truck uses between 4,000 and 5,000 litres of fuel a day, so an equivalent amount of “unfi­ltered” air was entering the trucks’ fuel tanks.