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Power Plants:  4 Factors to Help You Select the Right Oil Skimmer

Posted by Jim Petrucci on Feb 4, 2019 11:00:00 AM

Whether your power plant is coal-fired, gas-fired, hydroelectric or nuclear, petroleum-based products like fuel, hydraulic fluid and lubricating greases and oils are critical to operational success.

Supporting numerous lubricant connections, bearings, hydraulic seals and moving equipment parts, such as pumps, conveyors, feeders, scrubbers, cranes, turbines and more—it’s inevitable that these petroleum-based products will find their way into the process, cooling, or cleaning water that flows throughout a plant—posing operational challenges. 

Typically, this oily or greasy water flows to one of four places within a power plant:

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Topics: power plant, oil removal, skim oil, waste oil, oil skimmer

4 Ways Automated Oil Skimmers Save Power Plants Time and Money

Posted by Ken Gray on Aug 30, 2013 10:25:00 AM

The pumps, conveyors, cranes and turbines that make power generation possible operate with numerous moving parts. Lubricants help keep these critical components moving continuously so power-generation plants can meet ever-increasing electricity demand.

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Topics: vacuum truck, power plant, absorbent pads, slotted pipe, oil skimmers, oil

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