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WARNING: indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not

heeded, could result in death or serious injury.

! CAUTION: indicates a hazardous situation which, if not heeded, may

result in minor or moderate injury or damage to the purifier or facilities.

NOTE: indicate a precautionary instruction that given contain what must be

done without fail and what should be kept in mind as a guide in operating SELF
EJECTOR and doing related work.

Definition of Terms
Purifier operation: operation separating into 3 phases or liquid and solid or here into
oil water and solids.

Clarifier operation: Operation of separating into 2 phases or liquid and solid or here
into oil and solids.

Parallel operation: with oil feed proportionally to several purifiers arranged in parallel.

Series operation: operation by several purifiers arranged in series.

Total discharged type: purifier designed to totally discharge all contained in the bowl.
Partial discharged type: purifier designed to partially discharge water and solids only
in the bowl.

Density (ρ): Mass per unit volume.

Specific Gravity : ratio of mass to mass of water of the same volume. Varies with
temperature.

Oil feed rate: volume per unit time of untreated liquid upstream the purifier expressed
in terms of L/h or m3/h .

Actual capacity: purifier treating capacity based on SM standard ( eliminating sludge

1.8 of specific gravity and 2 µ m of diameter or more).

Feed Liquid: untreated oil to feed to purifier.

Light liquid: Oil treated by purifier or purified oil.

Heavy liquid: Separated moisture and heavy components in oil or simply water.

Sludge: Solids accumulated in bowl in narrow sense. Mixture of solids, water and oil
discharged from bowl in a wide sense.

Interface: Boundary surface between heavy and light liquids in bowl.

Gear pump: feeds feed oil to the purifier. Mounted on the horizontal shaft of the
purifier via safety joint, it is driven by the motor for the purifier. The gear pump can
be selected to match the particular treating capacity. Instead of gear pump , a
separate pump may be used.

Oil heater: installed midway between the gear pump and oil purifier, the oil heater
warms feed oil feed by the gear pump on an optimum treating temperature. The
heater is classified into steam and electrical types. The steam type is provided with a
temperature control valve and electrical type with thermostat to control the
temperature. Before oil is treated to purifier, it must be heated up to a certain
temperature according to the particular oil viscosity and nature
3 – way cylinder valve: the 3 way cylinder valve is a pneumatically operated
selector valve and feeds oil to the purifier. When starting, stopped or discharging
sludge, it is changed to return the oil via the bypass piping to the tank.

Leakage monitor: the leakage monitor detects oil to treat from the bowls sludge
outlet or heavy liquid outlet and outputs an alarm to the control panel. It is installed
on the purified oil outlet piping. By means of a pressure control valve, a constant
pressure is applied at all times and if the pressure has dropped, it is attributed to
“leakage” and the monitor delivers alarm to the control panel.

Water detector: it is electrostatic type, it resorts to the principle that, as water content
in oil rises the capacitance (dielectric constant) increases. Installed on the purified oil
outlet piping, it sends signal to the control panel if water content in purified oil has
exceeded it triggers value for sludge discharge.