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Desert Oil Refinery

Lubricating Oil Systems

Challenge: Desert Lube Oil System for Multiphase Oil Transfer Pumps

Location: Canada/United Arab Emirates

Flodraulic’s RHM Division was selected to build a complex special purpose API 614 Ch. 3 lubricating oil system, designed to serve a twenty-five year mission life in an outdoor corrosive desert environment.

The RHM system provided lubrication, cooling and filtration to the rotating groups of 400gpm, 750psi pumps sending well-produced fluids 21kms from the desert production facility to a remote de-gassing station.

The totally redundant system included two 18gpm vertical pumps, dual air to oil heat exchangers each with dual fan motors and a stainless steel accumulator for pump changeover. The dual ASME air to oil heat exchangers incorporated 4 x 100% capabilities to ensure quadruple redundancy. Electrical devices and wiring conform to ATEX/IEC Zone 2 specifications. All piping and fabricated materials are 316 stainless steel which had to be completely sandblasted and specially coated and painted for to withstand the outdoor desert environment.

Experts in fluid power, electrical and mechanical technologies.

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