How To Utilize A Filter Cart To Give Your Lubricants... 'New Life'
Chances are that the fluids in your equipment do not meet the component manufacturer's specifications for cleanliness.

With periodic fine filtering from a filtration cart, your fluid will stay in excellent condition for extended periods.

Fluids filtered through a quality filter cart, are often up to 2 grades cleaner than new oil right from the barrel. Filter carts that employ fine filtering media, can clean particles down to just 1 micron and at the same time, remove 100% of water accumulation... a BIG plus for hydraulic systems.

Buyer beware... not all filtration carts are created equal.

Leave the Sandblasting to the Painters
Particles within a hydraulic system act similar to a sandblaster... with up to 10,000 lbs. of pressure wearing on your hoses, seals and valves.

Over time, these particles cause significant damage to your equipment which leads to costly downtime.

Sounds Interesting, But How Will a Filter Cart Help Me?
For many companies, maintenance costs are soaring out of control and drastically reducing the bottom line of the company. Equipment downtime from failure is drastic and very expensive.

There are many solutions to improving your overall equipment reliability, but probably one of the most simple and cost effective programs is a "Lube Oil Contamination Control Program".

Why? Because internal wear leads to costly maintenance and eventually - failure - which relates to downtime, replacement parts labor costs, and eventually replacement. Therefore: If you can reduce internal wear, you can obtain continuous savings throughout the life of the equipment.

Typically about 80% of internal equipment wear is produced from lube oil contaminants less than 10 micron. The sand blast effect of dirty oil under 5,000 lbs of pressure wears seals, hoses and pumps. By cleaning the oil, maintenance costs are dramatically reduced.

A good example is shown in the EQUIPMENT LIFE EXTENSION TABLE

The table shows that by reducing the ISO contamination level from a 23/20 to a 16/13 level, you can achieve a minimum of 3x and a maximum of 7x life extension for the equipment or component. A dramatic long - term savings!

Universal Application and Several Uses (Courtesy of Noria Corporation)
One of the most cost effective solutions to obtain these results is a portable filtration cart. There are several uses for a filter cart that go beyond periodic contamination control. Some of these applications include:

• Power Flush
  This involves reducing the oil level in a tank or sump and flowing the oil at a high velocity across the bottom to push out low-lying sediment.
• Wand Flush
  A wand is attached to one of the cart hoses and is used first to discharge at high pressure (kicking up adherent debris) and then the flow is reversed and the wand vacuums the sediments.
• Transfer Cart
  Oil is transferred from a storage container (tote, drum, etc.) to the machine's lube compartment.
• Cleaning Stored Lubes
  In this application, the cart multipasses fluid out of and back into the drum or tote to drawn down contamination, for instance, going from an ISO 24/21/18 to a 17/14/11.
• System Drain
  Sump and reservoir drains will wash out debris better if the waste oil is pumped out as opposed to simply flowing out by gravity.
• Offline Filtration
  Filter carts can be mounted permanently to a machine to supplement filtration.
• Line Flush
  Often remote lines and components need to be partitioned to enable flushing. This can be done easily with a filter cart.
• Hose Cleaning
  New hoses can be flushed of debris using a filter cart before they are installed on the machine.
• Repairs and Equipment Rebuild Flushing
  After machines are serviced they need to be flushed thoroughly before they are returned to service.
• Flushing During Equipment Commissioning
  New machines have original fabrication debris and dirt that have ingressed during transport and storage.
• Filtakleen USA offers a wide range of Portable Filter Carts to meet your company's specific needs, and we will be happy to assist you in choosing the proper model for your applications. We can also mount any of our filters on your equipment so there is a continuous filtering of oil.