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News Release from: Fluid Conditioning Systems | Subject: Filtration
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 October 2004
Magnom cleans up furnace fuel
A Magnom Process Unit was installed downstream of the filters and inspected after six weeks at Towngas, a Hong Kong based utility company which was having problems with contamination.
Towngas, a Hong Kong based utility company which was having problems with contamination in the naphtha fuel (a hydrocarbon) used to fuel a large furnace The system included some resin type filters but these were allowing fine rust to pass through
At that point only the first 2 Magnom cores were full of rust (about half a pound of very fine particulate), ensuring a service interval of 6 months of the unit at the least before cleaning was required.A Magnom Process Unit was installed downstream of the filters and inspected after six weeks.
The Magnom was found to improve the reliability of the system dramatically, engineers were so pleased with this result that they have ordered 3 more for similar applications.
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