Lower Service Costs for Defence Vehicles
LOWER SERVICE COSTS - EXTENDED FIELD OPERATIONS FOR DEFENCE VEHICLES
Regular maintenance of defence vehicles operating in harsh environments is critical to preserve the safety of personnel, as well as ensuring equipment reliability and extending an engine’s life.
Laurie Hyland is a preventive maintenance expert with over 40 years’ experience in diesel powered equipment. He said training exercises, patrols and conflict situations create extreme conditions for diesel engines and drive trains. By installing bypass centrifuges and using premium grade synthetic long-life oils, service downtime of equipment can be significantly reduced, eliminating potentially dangerous or time-costly maintenance schedules.
“By using today’s proven oil filtration technology and systems, vehicles deployed in remote battle zones can remain operational for much longer. Service intervals on equipment such as armoured vehicles, ordnance and troop carriers, trucks and earth moving equipment can be at least doubled. Another benefit is reduced transport and storage of oil and filters used in combat and training exercises”, Laurie said.
“Centrifuges are designed to extract the soot residue from the engine’s combustion process at a similar rate to that of the residue’s creation. This maintains a much cleaner internal engine environment. Most of those particles flow through the full flow filter media and these have been proven to cause 75 per cent of engine wear. Removing these millions of small particles from an engine’s lubrication system extends oil and filter life while substantially extending the engine’s whole of life”. He said.
“Throughout Australasia SpinnerII centrifuges are becoming standard equipment for mining, transport, marine and power generation equipment. Their use is endorsed by more than 52 engine manufacturers”, said Laurie.
Ref. EC 90506