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FILTRATION EQUIPMENT USING ROTATION METHOD

Today, there are many types of filtration equipment for petroleum & many chemical product
applications. The most objective of filtration applications are removing the water particles from oils
and petroleum. One of the important parts in petroleum filtration equipment is lube oil cleaning
centrifuge which is used in vehicles. This is important in order to reduce engine wear, reduce the
hazardous waste and extending the oil change intervals. Beside that, it will benefit environmentally
and reduce overhead. A true lube oil cleaning centrifuge must size properly in order to remove wear
abrasives from the oil. Next, it will recommend for engine to use not more than 10% of the engine oil
pump output.

1. Working Principle
The objective of this filtration equipment is to remove the dirt and solids from the engine oil
using the centrifugal force which is same as 1000 times the force of gravity. After the solid is
extract, it will stored inside the rotating turbine bowl. When the particles are being removed,
the clean oil is returned to the oil pan.
The flow diagram of the lube oil cleaning centrifuge process :

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The pressurized oil form the engine entered from the inlet on bottom right.
The oil will flow into turbine bowl using stationary shaft.
Turbine bowl filled with pressurized oil.
Next, the turbine bowl will spin in high speed forced the pressurized oil to flow out at the
bottom of the turbine bowl. Due to desired RPM levels, dirty particles in the turbine bowl

down to sub micron levels to the paper insert.


5. The clean oil flows out the turbine bowl by the two nozzles. Then, it will flow back into oil
pan by bottom of the centrifuge.

2. Diagram

3. Filtration equipment

4. Examples in industrial

There are a lot of companies that manufacturing the lube oil cleaning centrifuge in vehicle.
One of the most successful company is Fluid Power Energy Inc which is located in
Milwaukee, USA. They come with a product call spin-clean which is typically install fullflow filters that only remove solids from oil below 1 micron. It can increasing engine life.
Beside that, this spin-clean centrifuge can increase the time between oil change intervals thus
saving money and time. With proper maintanence, the engine life will increase in 50% and
impact the effiency of the engine.
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GRAVITY FILTRATION
1. Working principle
This filtration method use gravity as a medium to separate a substance. One of the most
familiar technique is filtration of solution through a paper filter in a funnel. This method,
allowing the liquid to flow through the paper by gravity. As filter paper will absorb a
significant volume of liquid, this method will succed when the volume of mixture filtered is
greater than 10mL. Filter cones is used to filtered solid material in a mixture and it will be
collected and used again. For the first step, a filter cone must be prepared. Then insert the
filter cone into the funnel. Next flow the mixture into the funnel. The filtered substance will
trapped on the surface of filter cone and the unfiltered liquid will flow down due to gravity.

2. Diagram

3. Filtration equipment

Fluted filters is used to filter a large amount of liquid and to filter hot solution saturated
during crystallization procedure. It can increase the speed of filtration as the surface area of
the filter paper is increased and it allow air to enter the flask for rapid pressure.

4. Examples in industry
Large companies such as SIEMENS invent a variety gravity filter systems. Granular particles
in a basin is tapped in gravity filter system. In a basin, fluid streams pass through and solids
are captured physically or chemically.

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