The world is in trouble but Fluid Clean can help....


Life as we know it is coming to an end.
No, we are not talking about a plague or some horrendous terrorist attack. Life as we know it is coming to an end because of a phenomenon called 'Peak Oil'.

So what is 'Peak Oil'?
No, not oil in its highest quality condition. It relates to an impending volume peak with the processing of Fossil Oils. Soon the world is going to be processing less oil because the easy to get to fossil stock is running out.

What happens when we reach a peak with anything?

Now, once we reach any peak like an athlete invariably does during their career, there is only one way to go - down. We are not talking about a massive drop in oil processing but the effect will change life as we know it. The repercussions will be profound.

An analogy might be a good way to explain this phenomenon.
Water is critical to humans. We are made up of 75% of it. But we only need to lose a few percentage points of water before dehydration causes life as we know it to come to an end. Fossil Oil production and the affect it has on our lives is similar. Reducing oil production by even a few percentage points will have a dramatic effect because we rely on oil so much in our daily lives.

Believe it or not, even eating consumes huge amounts of oil.
As geologist Dale Allan Pfeiffer point outs in his article 'Eating Fossil Fuels', 10 calories of fossil fuels are required to produce 1 calorie of food eaten in the U.S. This is because all the processes in producing the food we eat involve fossil fuels:
Pesticides to protect the crops
Fertilizers to grow the crop

Generally all pieces of farm machinery are powered from fossil fuels
Food storage relies on electricity that is primarily made from fossil fuel
And amazingly in the U.S. the average piece of food is transported approximately 2,400 KM (1,500 miles) from the soil to the dining room table. Pretty scary stuff!

But we have solution.
Reuse some of the oil we extract from the ground, but which bit?
The majority of crude oil we extract from the ground is used as fuel and, when burnt, its gone forever!  For example, a typical drum of crude oil is approximately processed into the following products:
46% = Petrol
21% = Diesel
11% = Jet fuel
1.5% = Lubrication Oil
It's the percentage of crude oil that goes to make lubrication oils that we can reuse over and over again.

Everything mechanical needs lubrication oil to work.
Trucks need it.
Earth moving equipment uses it.
Steel  factories use it
Paper mills need it.
Mining uses it.
Aircraft
Shipping etc etc
Almost anything and everything that have moving parts requires a lubrication fluid to maintain operation.

Lubrication oils don't always need to be thrown out

Vast quantities of these lubrication fluids don't wear out, they just become contaminated and then people throw them out.
And this is our solution: Purify the oil and allow it to be used over again and again, don't burn it or dump it, reuse it. Fluid Clean has the environmental answer.

At last an answer that's both cost effective and environmentally friendly

It doesn't happen very often but Fluid Clean has got the formula. Not only can the purification process achieve higher cleanliness levels than that of brand new oil in a drum, it does so at a significantly cheaper per litre rate. You can be helping the environment, minimizing 'Peak Oil' and saving money all at the same time. Bruce Bailey the operations manager at Waste Services Homebush Fluid Recycling Plant was also pleasantly surprised in the effectiveness and monetary savings of the Fluid Clean process.

Bruce Bailey understands the Fluid Clean benefits

"Our plant relies heavily on the cleanliness of heat transfer lubrication oil. With Fluid Clean's assistance,  we are able to reuse the thermal oil. This process is reasonably priced and provides zero concern with our critical machinery operation"

Over time, the cost savings can be significant

Most manufacturers of Hydraulic Equipment falsely recommend replacing the fluid at twelve monthly intervals. Working on a nominal one thousand litre system at today's rates, new hydraulic lubrication oil retails for around $2.00/litre. Changing the oil every twelve months will therefore cost $2,000 and that's before the expense of transferring the contaminated oil out, new oil in and disposing costs are taken into consideration.

Fluid Clean purification on the other hand will typically only cost $0.75/litre. There are no additional transfer costs, no environmental disposing costs and with the hydraulic equipment running we also purify the oil trapped throughout the system. The direct monetary saving in this scenario therefore equates to $1,250 per oil change. Now over a ten year period that's a significant $12,500 in dollar savings on one machine alone!

The Fluid Clean process is not all mirrors and smoke screens!

Fluid Clean is basically one big bit of unique purification kit. It's about the size of a garden shed and so big we have to tow it around behind a 12 ton truck. But how does it work?

The process uses a number of known purification technologies all grouped together in the unique package. Let us explain.

A significant part of the Fluid Clean purification process is the mechanical filtration component. Ever ridden on one of those play ground merry go rounds? The faster and faster it's pushed around, the more the riders get thrown towards the outer edge by centrifugal forces. (And become as dizzy as a wheel nut on a racing car!)
Mechanical filtration or centrifuge separation/clarification utilises this same phenomenon. It works this way:

Contaminated oil is fed into the top of the spinning centrifuge where it's subjected to approximately 10,000 g's. (10,000 times the force of gravity) This immense force causes the particular contamination to be thrown clear of the oil and retained in the outer bowl.

Water is another damaging contaminant that requires special attention. The centrifuge will easily remove any 'free' water in the oil due to the specific gravity differential. However removal of emulsified water from the oil becomes a more complicated task.

To accomplish this, the Fluid Clean rig uses a vacuum dehydration process. The contaminated emulsified oil/water mix is heated up to 70 degrees Celsius and sprayed in a vacuum chamber. Water at this temperature within a vacuum boils off as steam and is then easily extracted away to the atmosphere through filters.

The Fluid Clean rig also has two filter housings that can be populated with various micron size and medium type elements to achieve any desired ISO cleanliness levels. So there you have it, a complex but effective system for the purification and reuse of our limited resources fossil oils.

A commonly asked question of this process is:

Do any of the important ingredients within the oil also get adversely removed by the centrifuge and dehydration processes?

In short, the answer is NO.  As Dr. David Kehoe of Plastilube explains in his report 'Review of the Fluid Clean Process for Lubricants.

The vacuum which the oil is subjected to will have no affect on any of the lubricant components as they all have effective boiling ranges very much higher than water.

Similarly the centrifuge only removes large (> micron) non-soluble particles and will not have any affect on the lubricant or its additives.

Call to action
Fluid Clean is passionate about our environment and will continue to take these proactive measures to slow down the rate of fossil oil processing. On the other hand if cost savings are important to you and you want to keep your life as you know it for a little longer, give Fluid Clean a call on: 1300 PURIFY

For a limited time, we are providing free of charge a before and after oil cleanliness analysis valued at $140. The analysis will not only identify the scary contaminates in your system before purification, but amaze you on the effectiveness of the Fluid Clean process and justify the clever cost saving environmental decision you just made.

Call 1300 PURIFY Australia wide.