Racor Filters Improve Diesel Cleanliness by 80% in Columbian Coal Mine

The latest Racor hydrocarbon filters from Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, are being used to filter more than 45 million litres of diesel each month in one of the biggest opencast coal mines in Latin America.

By installing filtration at its fuel storage tank farm, the mine has considerably reduced its maintenance costs and increased the service life of its highway trucks, tractors, excavators and generators.
                                   
Located on the north coast of Columbia, the coal mine plays a significant role in the Columbian economy, making continual developments in the cleanliness and environmentally friendliness of its production processes in order to compete globally. With such a high consumption of diesel fuel, the facility looked for an effective engineering solution to reduce its operating costs: the contamination of fuel by solids, sediment and water.

To minimise this problem, the mine invited local distributor, Fuel Filters de Columbia, to install Parker Racor hydrocarbon filters at its fuel tank storage farm, in order to clean the diesel that they were buying from their providers.

The mine was so impressed with the results, that it subsequently asked the distributor to install additional filtration systems with high efficiency and high capacity media for tank dispatch and diesel recirculation systems, improving engine performance still further.