Spare Lube Oil cooler for a Gas Turbine

[fraz]

Whiel ordering a Gas Turbine, should we have a standby lube oil cooler or not? API 614 recommends to have a spare cooler, but most of the Gas Turbine providers like Solar donot provide a spare cooler. Can anybody tell us what to do, should we ask Solar to provide a spare one?

[machinedoc]

It all depends upon how much critical is your service. if you cannot afford a shutdown of your machine due to leaking cooler then you should have a spare cooler

[yahoo]

Normally if the cooler is located inside the oil console, you have to have a spare cooler. Because cost of contamination of 1500~2000 gallons of oil justifies it.

[Asgharnaqvi]

Kindly go for API recommendation and never allow this deviation..I don't exactly know at which phase of the project you are right now?..as you know afterwards , it will be difficult to add additional standalone cooler if operational problems may surface...

[sakhan]

In general, oil systems shall comply with API Standard
614. All modifications from API Standard 614 require
purchaser approval.
Note: In keeping with the packaging concept, strict compliance with API
Standard 614 may not be practical. Differences from this standard may
include (but are not limited) to the following:
a. Reservoir retention time.
b. Synthetic oil supply temperature.
c. Reservoir material.
d. Drain system slopes.
e. Twin oil coolers.
f. Instrumentation items.