Oil Mist hazard at a steam turbine successfully resolved

Installation and commissioning of a FRANKE Filter Oil Mist Separator at the Finnish power plant Raahe has been successfully completed.

This year in March the company FRANKE Filter carried out the installation of an oil mist separator at the steel plant in the Finnish city of Raahe. Thanks to the special filtration method possible escape of oil mist at a new steam turbine has been prevented.

„The project began in 2014 and the unit was designed in close collaboration with the Russian turbine manufacturer Power Machines. Our result is a customized, individually designed solution”, says Mr Franke, General Director of the FRANKE Filter GmbH.

The installed oil mist separator filters exhaust air. The latter contains evaporated lube oil coming from turbine bearings. After filtration the exhaust air is clean and thus environment around the machine is not contaminated which is also in line with the stringent environmental standards in Finland. The filtered lube oil, without loss of additives, is led back into the lube oil system.
The special challenge was in this case that seven bearings had to be vented simultaneously with one oil mist separator. Vacuum can be adjusted, however, separately at each bearing.

The steel plant obtains with this solution the following advantages:
1. Cost reduction as no lube oil is lost
2. Protection of environment as well as prevention of turbine hall contamination
3. Individually adjustable vacuum in the lube oil tank and in bearings
4. Individual solution, which is easy to monitor at one central point
5. Very little maintenance needed, life time is up to 3 years

FRANKE Filter Oil Mist Separators are installed worldwide. Each unit is designed individually according to customer specification. They provide clean air and high efficiency.
Further information about the products can be found at: www.franke-filter.eu

About FRANKE Filter:
Back in 1989, the company was founded in Holle as FRANKE Mess- und Filtersysteme. It was focussing on the manufacture of customised, high quality oil mist separators for power plants and turbine manufacturers in Germany and its neighbouring countries. With its relocation to Bad Salzdetfurth in 1996 - a brand new office and assembly hall were erected - and its change of name to FRANKE Filter GmbH in January 2001, the clean solution could be offered to customers in Europe and all over the world.
At FRANKE Filter we are committed at providing you with active environmental protection. In order to achieve the best possible results we manufacture according to the most up-to-date standards. Being both the designer and a specialised manufacturer of oil mist separators FRANKE Filter has gained valuable experience for more than 25 years through personal customer contact for all conceivable applications concerning separation of oil mist.

Contact details:
Franke Filter GmbH
Wiedhof 9
31162 Bad Salzdetfurth
Deutschland

Email: info@franke-filter.de
Tel.: +49 (0) 5064 904-0
Fax: +49 (0) 5064 904 - 18
Web: www.franke-filter.eu

This release was published on openPR.