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TECHNICAL BULLETIN No. 17

ADDITIVE DOSAGE FOR FUEL OIL AND CRUDE OIL

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 or contact us via E-mail:

 

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