Do you believe in the filtration media that you sell?

I do and it’s all down to the training I received as a young engineer by one of the industries greats, Barry Johnson. Barry was the UK Sales Manager for Pall Filtration Hydraulics division at the time and I was a sales engineer at Major Fluid Power Ltd.

When working with my first particle counter, a Pall (PCM100), at an automotive factory, I was not getting the results I wanted; my first response was to always blame the filter element. Part of this doubt was because there were no auto selection programs at that time and the price for sizing the wrong Pall high collapse filter housing was a costly mistake. That’s another story.

Pall PCM100 weighed 20kgs and could only do 20 - 30 counts on a charge.

Back to Barry…..

Barry’s very calm and reassuring voice when I rang for advice has stayed with me through my cleanliness and monitoring career.

“Stop and breathe” he would say. “Have belief in the Pall media, it will do what it’s sized to do, let’s look at how you are taking the sample”.

Barry was 100% correct. He believed in the media and the issue was always me not flushing the PCM or drawing a dirty bottle sample and generally being impatient. We always got down to ROOT cause, but it was never because of the filter media; he just knew and believed in the Pall media

This rule of thumb has always stayed with me when choosing a filtration media supplier or partner.

When Barry joined Hydac in the early 2000s, I had to be convinced that their media performed as well as Palls; needless to say, he is an excellent salesman and master negotiator and I became one of Hydac's first Fluid Serve Partners in the UK along with the flushing maestro Ian Turner at Turner Hydraulics and Guy Poulson Davies at Active-8.

Barry Johnson and myself at the NFPC supplier day 2 years ago being gate crashed by Ian Cochran from Pirtek Birmingham.

Barry’s teachings are still with me today and I still adhere to these beliefs and values; I need to be convinced that a media is as good as the technical data that it comes with. At RCC, therefore, we have been testing our latest media for over 14 months; one set of filters have been connected to a servo hydraulic system which has been running for over 9 months on our Link cloud monitoring platform.

Data tags:

1.      ICM4406:99 8 channels

2.      RH% water

3.      Temperature

4.      DP Cooling filter

5.      DP Returnline filter

6.      DP pressure filter

7.      Flow through pressure filter

We will be publishing the data via our RCCSense analytical platform in the next 2 weeks. What we can tell you now is that we have pumped nearly ONE MILLION LITRES of hydraulic fluid through the pressure filter running 3 micron beta 4000 media and the performance has been off the charts – SUPERCLEAN consistently <10/9/0/0/0/0/0/0.

We base every aspect of every process on the scientific research and knowledge that enables us to pursue purity rather than just cleanliness

Levels of cleanliness that used to be reserved for the elite few are now available to all of us.

An LPA2 being used to monitor a 4000tonne press after RCC installed a 500lpm offline filtration system to clean up the 30,000litre reservoir and maintain pump and valve reliability. We got the system running consistently below <14/10/9.

An ARGO-HYTOS OPCom11 contamination monitor with LubCos H20 sensor scaled ppm being tested on EN590 diesel

An MP Filtri ICM2.0 running on an F1 hydraulic fluid used in servo valve testing

OPCom11 Phosphate running on a Skydrol actuator test rig

MP Filtri LPA3 being used to check on a servo hydraulic system for testing prosthetic limbs. The LPA3 was used on initial startup of flushing of the 50mm ringmain pipework. Started 21/19/17 and was SAT accepted at <13/10/9

The ARGO-HYTOS OPCom11 cleanliness monitor being used on a Servo hydraulic knuckle test. Contact me on Whats app +44(0)7715654658 or email [email protected] if you want to achieve F1 Cleanliness levels from your fluids.