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Synthetic Compressor Oil Kluber Summit SH46 saves money and Maintenance.

30/06/2009 12:03:12 Hits:708

A brick manufacturing company was previously running Compare 6075 air compressors filled with a mineral oil supplied by the service engineers. Unfortunately it was deemed the compressors were not running efficiently due to the mineral oil and our advice was sought to assist in improving this situation in order to meet a reduction in overheads through efficiency drives.

Kluber introduced a synthetic compressor oil, Kluber Summit SH46 and at the next service interval the service engineers were instructed to flush and refill the compressors with the new synthetic oil in accordance with our recommendation.

The results of the implementation of the Kluber Summit SH46 compressor oil are such that over a two month evaluation period in comparison to the same two month period in the previous year, there was a significant reduction in energy consumption of 3000 KwH. This value alone equates to £.272 projecting to an annual saving of £.1600 for one compressor which significantly exceeds expectations..

In addition to the energy savings, further savings will be gained by extending the oil change intervals from 2000 hours to 8000 hours, which in turn reduces the amount of lubricant purchased, reduced maintenance/service costs and as a result of increased wear protection fewer spares will be required. A further benefit of the synthetic oil is a reduction in operating temperature which has a knock-on effect on the amount of vapour carry-over, a reduction of which leads to fewer lubricant top-ups.

To discover more, call Nick or Sandy at Kluber direct on 01422 205115