Centrifuges are useful in that they can continuously separate liquids from solids, and have become an essential component of waste water facilities, oil and gas industries, tank cleaning, and rendering just to name a few. But just like any other piece of equipment, centrifuges can be easily be damaged if not run properly and maintained correctly.
Make sure you give your centrifuge some love by learning from the experience of others and by following these repair and maintenance tips.
Centrifuges (decanter and tricanter) can easily be damaged if mistreated or misused. Here are some ways in which centrifuge damage may occur:
There are several important cleaning and safety procedures that should be used to ensure a centrifuge works properly.
In addition to cleaning the centrifuge, you should also check for residue and corrosion on all parts of the centrifuge regularly.
Scheduling regular preventive maintenance for your centrifuge is important since it increases the durability and reliability of the unit. In addition, regular preventive maintenance of the units helps to ensure consistent results and reliable performance.
Regular maintenance includes inspection of the physical condition, inspection of the electrical condition, cleaning, and testing of the centrifuge.
Lastly, regular preventive maintenance will not only prevent potential damage to the unit, but it can also help recognize minor damage that already has taken place and allow you to remedy the issue proactively.
Centrifuges should undergo daily inspection. Here are some essential parts and functions to check for:
Operators should perform a weekly maintenance on the centrifuge units. We recommended to refer to your operations and maintenance manual for information on the recommended weekly maintenance tasks involving the following:
Here are a few of the suggested centrifuge maintenance items to perform monthly:
Industrial Fluid Management's Repair and Maintenance Division provides a team of technicians; prepared to repair any centrifuge on the market, be it yours or the industry’s. Our master centrifuge mechanics and technicians custom build, refurbish or reconstitute industrial machinery and its components.
Here are some of the crucial steps our team follows when repairing centrifuge units.
Assembly components received with worn coatings are media blasted to original base metal without damaging their passive layer. Worn components required to be blasted will be recoated towards final assembly with original coating or equivalent.
Equipment smaller internal and external parts are cleaned via parts washer having all oil, grease, and residual product removed prior to detailed inspection.
Larger components of the assembly are cleaned prior to detailed inspection.
Once the cleaning process is complete a centrifuge inspection begins. Machinery components are measured on precision surfaces with calibrated measurement tools. Any components outside of OEM tolerances are flagged to identify areas in need of correction.
Excessive wear to the screw conveyor can diminish the solids capture rate. Our welding division is equipped to execute conveyor re-flighting, conveyor under cutting and tiling, re-tiling, hard surfacing, conveyor hub build up, and performing conveyor modifications.
The screw conveyor is balanced in real-time, following a two-plane dynamic balancing process. Then the bowl is balanced separately using the same process.
The conveyor is installed into the bowl, pillow block assembly is completed, and gearbox is installed and indicated. The reassembly process includes visual inspection, tolerance checks, and run out of the unit. We want to make sure your machine is ready to hit the field as soon as you receive it back to your facility!
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