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Oil mist separation – LGA 600 FU

In machining and forming processes, such as the manufacture of injection pumps, cooling lubricants are used from which oil mist is formed under high pressure and heat development.

Filtration Group Industrial’s customer is a well-known manufacturer of diesel systems in Homburg/Saar, Germany, which produces components on various machining centers (BAZ). In order to comply with legally stipulated maximum workplace concentration (MAK) and workplace limit values (AGW), to protect the expensive equipment and also to still maintain the performance level of the machines in the long term, the cooling lubricant mist must be extracted and cleaned directly from the working area of the machines.

Challenge

At the machine centers of the manufacturer there are generally electrostatic-separation systems installed. The air together with the oil mist is evacuated from the machine working room, but the separation result was not satisfactorily.

Issue

  • Oil drops deposit in the factory hall and on the machines

  • The machine operators and other employees have to breath in harmful oil aerosols
  • Very short maintenance intervals for the electrostatic separation system (4x per year)

Target

  • Increased separation rate and significantly reduced remaining oil content in the air

  • Compliance with the prescribed values of the ‘TA-Luft

  • Reliable complete solution with low maintenance requirements

  • Assured protection of employees and equipment

Solution statement

Filtration Group Industrial LGA aerosol separators were installed, piped, control integrated and commissioned on several BAZs by Filtration Group service engineers.

Results

  • Secured separation and recovery even of finest oil droplets by the nearly maintenance free coalescer principle

  • Protection of employees and equipment thanks to the compliance to prescribed TA-Luft values

  • A significant increase of the separation rate was achieved and documented

Customer value

  • Extension of the service interval from 3 to 12 month
  • Reduction of machine downtime to a necessary minimum
  • Complete recovery of the separated oil
  • Nearly no wasted material in the LGA-system
  • Reliable protection of the employees’ health
  • The issue of intensive cleaning efforts for the removal of oil films in the production hall and in the machine centers has be eliminated completely

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