Case Study: Towngas HK Utility
Summary: Cleaning rust from Naptha fuel in a large Hong Kong furnace
Towngas
Hong Kong
China
Application(s): Fuel
Industry(s): Power Generation
Notes
Towngas, a Hong Kong based utility company was having problems with contamination in the naphtha fuel (a hydrocarbon) used to fuel a large furnace.
The system included some resin type filters (see the right hand side of the image below) but these were allowing fine rust to pass through.
A MagnomTM Process Unit was installed downstream of the filters and inspected after 6 weeks. It was found during inspection that only the first 2 MagnomTM cores were full of rust. This then ensured a service interval of 6 months of the unit at the least before cleaning was required.
The MagnomTM was found to improve the reliability of the system dramatically, engineers were so pleased with this result that they have ordered 3 more for similar applications.