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Spare Lube Oil cooler for a Gas Turbine
Posted: 04 Jun 2010, 11:01
by 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?
Re: Spare Lube Oil cooler for a Gas Turbine
Posted: 12 Jun 2010, 05:51
by 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
Re: Spare Lube Oil cooler for a Gas Turbine
Posted: 12 Sep 2010, 08:09
by 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.
Re: Spare Lube Oil cooler for a Gas Turbine
Posted: 13 Nov 2010, 22:57
by 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...
Re: Spare Lube Oil cooler for a Gas Turbine
Posted: 16 Nov 2010, 04:06
by 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.