I recently had a local customer request our support on a gas turbine Service Project. In addition to standard scheduled maintenance, there was a requirement to flush the turbine lube oil piping and oil cooler. The turbine, manufactured by Solar Turbines, was installed...
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Water Ingression in Gas Turbine… No Problem for PFPUSA
A power company contacted us several months ago for help with a major water ingression issue in their gas turbine lube oil. At some points, the customer was draining up to 30 gallons of free water from a 3,300 gallon reservoir. The water ingression issue was caused by...
Booth 867 @ ILTA trade show, June 13-15, 2022
Come meet us in person at this year's ILTA trade show, June 13-15, 2022! (click link to open PDF flyer in a new window) WHERE? George R. Brown Convention Center (Exhibit Halls A & B) 1001 Avenida de las Americas Houston, Texas USA We will be located in BOOTH...
Custom, modular dehydration system for turbine lube oil conditioning
A power customer reached out for help with an oil quality problem. Their original Bowser turbine lube oil conditioning system was no longer functioning properly and was in need of replacement. After getting application details, we proposed a 20 GPM vacuum dehydrator...
JFTOT fail resolved with proper sampling cans
Success is not always defined by how quickly we can mobilize the proper equipment and personnel into place for our customers. Albeit we have become quite adept at it over the years. But what I’m getting at is eliminating the need by providing insight into the problem...
Booth 822 @ ILTA trade show, October 4-6, 2021
Come meet us in person at this year's ILTA trade show, from October 4-6, 2021! (click link to open PDF flyer in a new window) WHERE? George R. Brown Convention Center (Exhibit Halls A & B) 1001 Avenida de las Americas Houston, Texas USA We will be located...
Success: Horizontal natural gas separator/scrubber
We recently worked with a natural gas company in the midwest that had some underground storage facilities and a compressor station that had a problem with sludge. They believed that the contaminants were iron sulfide and compressor oil. To help them solve their...
Custom dust collector I&C for wood manufacturer
Last month I was contacted by Don, the Process Improvement Engineer at a company that manufactures custom wood photo boxes and more. They do direct sales online sales and through physical retail outlets that have photo-processing capabilities. Don had been a happy...
The Fantastic Four – Petroleum Pipeline Pigging Project
I was recently asked by a petroleum logistics company if PFP could assist in a pipeline pigging project. They requested for us to provide an alternative solution to the use of traditional hydraulic fracturing tanks. While devising the specifications for the system, we...
12,000 gallons of Turbine Reservoir Oil filtered during 2-day outage
Here we are back again with some more notes from the industrial filtration field... This time a power generation facility in central Pennsylvania needed their turbine reservoir oil cleaned during a scheduled outage. Approximately 12,000 gallons of oil need to be...
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