In industrial installations running on
heavy/light fuel oil or Crude oil, selecting the additive dosage system
is as important as selecting the type of additive to be
used, in response to the problems experienced and the objectives for
improvement.
Regardless of whether the fuel is treated with additive
at the fuel pipe into the storage tank, at the fuel pipe for consumption,
or at the pipe entering an intermediate tank, the additive
treatment should be always take place using a dosing pump with
regulated flow.This ensures the two basic premises that allow the additive
to work at maximum efficiency and minimal cost:
- Adjustment of the ratio of
Additive : Fuel, to ensure sufficient quantities of active
ingredients and to avoid an unnecessary excess consumption of
additive.
- Homogenization of the
Additive – Fuel solution to ensure that the active agent of the additive
reaches all the fuel in storage or consumed, preventing zones with
excessive or insufficient additive treatment.
Manual application of the additive to industrial fuel
tanks, whether performed before, during, or after filling, are not
compatible with at least the second of the above two premises.
Normally, the dosing pump should work in connection with
fuel transfer pumps (i.e., discharge pumps, pumps supplying intermediate
tanks, pumps supplying consumption) in order to prevent ‘lapses’ that are
difficult to rectify afterwards.
The type of dosing pump recommended by the supplier of
the additive should be used. In industrial installations, in order to dose the the
additives from “rb bertomeu”, we recommend (and
supply on request) medium-pressure (up to 8 Kg/cm2) piston pumps,
which provide highly reliable dosing in continuous operation, in our
opinion. The document detailed below shows an example diagram of an
installation for dosing additives from a drum in which the additive is
injected into the fuel oil at the unload pipe from tanker trucks into the
general storage tanks.
For further information on this subject,
please consult the following document by rb bertomeu
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