Dairies, breweries, soft-drink, confectionery and meat-processing plants.
Points with possible food contact must use H1 lubricants; FSSC 22000, BRCGS and HACCP audits check the lubrication records; oven chains run at high temperature; conveyors are washed with caustic and steam; fillers use EPDM seals.
maximum time running the cleaning oil CPI COMP CLEAN II in production per TDS, before draining and filling the H1 oil. Objective: clean the varnish out of a 75 kW screw air compressor with many years of service and switch it to an NSF H1 registered air compressor oil without a long shutdown. Read more →
Food · Binh Duong (now Ho Chi Minh City) · Mar 2019Work Hop Tien has done at plants in this industry, and technical articles on the lubrication points this industry meets most.
Objective: in a station with several machines, choose the oil by each machine's conditions and the base oil in it, and change the oil without carrying old deposits into the new oil. The 132 kW machine runs hot (display reading about 96 °C at the survey) and was on another manufacturer's PAG-based oil; it was switched to CPI-1522-46, a PAG/ester oil of the same family. The 200 kW machine runs cooler and was given the PAO oil CPI-4601-46. Both were drained completely, the separator tanks cleaned and the separator elements and filters replaced before filling; Hop Tien recommends an analysis sample after 500 hours.
Dong Nai · Nov 2018 – Aug 2019
Objective: fill the ammonia refrigeration compressor oil CPI-1009-68 into four NH₃ screw compressors with 11,400–49,100 running hours without letting old oil and sludge contaminate the new oil. Method: drain the compressor unit and the separator through the machine's oil drain valve, clean the filter, drain every low point until the oil runs clear, and only then pump in the new oil; done during a maintenance stop, without dismantling the machines.
Dong Thap · Oct 2016The lubricant records an FSSC 22000 or BRCGS auditor usually asks to see, the nonconformities that cost plants points, and how to file everything so you can answer in minutes.
TechnicalRapid chain stretch and black carbon on bakery and dryer oven chains are usually caused by the oil and how it is applied, not by the chain. How to check, clean and select.
TechnicalWhich oil your screw compressor needs is written on the machine itself: the manual, the oil label on the door and the discharge temperature under load. How to read all three and decide when to change the oil.
TechnicalViscosity, TAN, water, iron, copper and silicon: what each one says about a screw compressor, with reference limits and three common patterns.
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IllustrationISO VG 320 for heavily loaded, slow-running oven chains and conveyors that need a thicker oil film. Ester chain oil up to +250…
