Emergency On-line Oil Conditioning-Turbine Oil
Lormar Solution: Lormar immediately dispatched a crew and mobile system to the plant and arrived more than 1,300 miles away within 40 hours of the call.
Lormar began re-circulating the oil on a side stream basis and removed more than 530 gallons of free and emulsified water within the first 6 hours. After 18 hours of operation, Lormar was able to establish that the water contamination leak rate was ~7.5 GPH. A quick test of the water confirmed that the leak resulted from a leaking heat exchanger and not the steam seal system.
Each heat exchanger was isolated and shut-off independently while Lormar observed the rate of water removal at our unit. No reduction in the rate of contamination was observed when Exchanger #1 was shut down. A leak in exchanger #2 was confirmed within 15 minutes of shutting it down. (Note: Pressure tests of the bundles did not indicate a leak) Within 36 hours, system purity was restored to an ISO 12/9 condition with less than 100ppm water.
The client knows that immediate solutions to unpredictable lube contamination problems are only a phone call away. More than 100 similar projects have been completed at other generating facilities nationwide.
Lormar Reclamation Service, 2845-D Broce Dr., Norman, OK 73072. Tel: 405-321-0636; Fax: 405-321-0680.