Preservation of machinery in storage is a critical maintenance item often overlooked. Oil Mist provides a cost effective option which can save tens of thousands.

1. What an Expert Says
About Machinery Preservation
“Many times equipment arrives at the
plant site long before it is ready to
be installed at its permanent
location”
“ . . . failures of machinery within
days of initial commissioning, were
reduced by factors of 7:1 and higher
at locations which applied oil mist
preservation techniques.”
Heinz P. Bloch
Machinery Consultant

2. What an Expert Says
About Machinery Preservation
“The quality of machinery
preservation during pre-
erection storage or long-term
deactivation will have a
measurable effect on machinery
infant mortality at the startup of
a plant or process unit.”
“Unless the equipment is
properly preserved, scheduled
commissioning dates may be
jeopardized and the risk of
Heinz P. Bloch
failure is measurably Machinery Consultant
increased.”

3. Machinery Preservation Yard
LubriMist ® Oil Mist
Uncrated
Crated
Aerial View of Oil Mist Preservation Yard in Thailand
…Designed and Operated by LSC.

4. LubriMist ®
PRESERVATION SYSTEM LAYOUT
Air Supply
Air Supply
Air Supply
Package
Package
Package
Oil Mist
Generator(s)
Oil Mist
Header Three Generator System
Compressed Air Package
Capacity for 800 Machines

5. All Types of Equipment
are Stored and Preserved

6. Machinery Preservation With
LubriMist ® Oil Mist
Equipment Arrives At Job Site In A Number of Different Ways…
But without Protection From The Weather and Elements,
It’s very Likely To Fail At Start-up or Shortly After.

7. Large Electric Motors Vertical Equipment
Crated Equipment Small Pumps & Motors

8. A continuous flow of oil mist protects the bearings.
No need to rotate equipment by hand.

9. Equipment Can Be Stored/Preserved for Months/Years!
With Minimal Man Power.

10. Equipment in Crates Need not be
Opened up for Inspection or Rotation.

11. Beneficial Points
Oil Mist Preservation Yards
• The mist preservation yards are easily expanded
and contracted to accommodate the movement of
machinery.
• Provides clean form of preservation as there are
no spills and the amount of oil used is precisely
controlled.
• Equipment is ready for immediate connection to
the process plant oil mist systems.

12. Advantages of Machinery Preservation
with Oil Mist
• No need to disassemble machinery.
• Not necessary to fill cavities with liters
of special and costly preservative fluids.
• Since preservation is achieved with
turbine oil there is no need to clean and
remove preservative coatings.

13. LubriMist ® Preservation Packaging Kits
Designed For Wooden Crates

14. LubriMist ® Preservation Packaging Kits
Designed For Wooden Crates
Mist
Inlet
Mist
Outlet
Recessed Construction Allows For Stacking of Crates
and Avoids Breakage.

15. Beneficial Points
Oil Mist Preservation Yards
• The mist preservation yards are easily expanded and contracted
to accommodate the movement of machinery.
• Provides clean form of preservation as there are no spills and
the amount of oil used is precisely controlled.
• Equipment is ready for immediate connection to the process
plant oil mist systems.

16. Advantages with Oil Mist Preservation
• No need to disassemble machinery.
• Not necessary to fill cavities with liters of special and costly
preservative fluids.
• Since preservation is achieved with turbine oil there is no need
to clean and remove preservative coatings.

17. OIL MIST PRESERVATION
REDUCES START-UP FAILURES
50
BEARING FAILURES PER YEAR
40
30
20
10
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Years
NOTE: A Good Preservation Program During Construction Would Have Reduced
Number of Failures (12) Due to Infant Mortality.
10 Unnecessary Repairs x’s $15k Average Cost Each = $150k

18. LubriMist ® Preservation System
• Oil mist generator(s); basic units
with minimum monitoring and controls.
• Source of compressed air. Preservation Manifold
• Oil supply typically from a drum • Mounts into mist header
with cover and air driven pump.
•
• Metering orifice machined into
Metering orifice machined into
• Post mounted distribution header; the manifold; no separate
the manifold; no separate
2” galvanized. reclassifiers or points required
• LubriMist® preservation manifolds •
• 8 connection points
8 connection points
with integral reclassifiers.
• Plastic tubing and fittings to connect
equipment to the mist header.

19. Preservation of Equipment
in Full Wooden Crates
Mist
Inlet
Mist
Outlet
LubriMist ® Preservation Packaging Kits in Place.

20. Storage of Crated Machinery
• Many clients want to leave machinery in the wooden
shipping crate for protection at job site.
• LSC designed the Preservation Packaging Kit to meet this
need and adapt equipment to oil mist preservation.
• Especially effective with materials shipped overseas.

21. Overview of Storage Yard
Plastic
Tubing
Equipment Stored without Crates

22. Pump Package
Preserved with Oil Mist
Plastic
Tubing
Equipment Stored without Crates

23. Operation of Storage Yard
• Equipment received at project site and directed to the
storage yard.
• Records and documentation kept for each crate:
- Arrival date documented.
- Initial inspection reports prepared.
- Location in the yard noted.
- Oil mist applied to the package.
- Flow of oil mist verified.
Continued:

24. Operation of Storage Yard
• Equipment maintained and inspected
while in the yard.
• Mist systems kept fully operational.
• When crates leave the storage yard, departure
date and condition noted.
Continued:

25. Integration of Storage and
Operating Mist Systems
• Storage yard erected and made operational.
• Installation of the permanent mist systems
is carried out in two phases.
Phase I - Begins following erection of major pipe racks.
• Mist generators are set in place.
• Distribution and return header pipe is erected.
• Preservation manifolds mounted in header.
• Mist generator is placed in service.
- Compressed air source needed, not electrical power.

26. Integration of Storage and
Operating Mist Systems
Phase I
• As equipment foundations are completed, machinery
is moved from the storage yard, removed from crates
and placed on the foundation.
• Temporary plastic tubing is run from the preservation
manifold to the equipment cavities to be preserved.
- No more than three days without oil mist.
• During completion of construction the equipment
continuously receives mist and is routinely inspected.
continued:

27. Integration
Phase II
• Begins after all process piping has been installed
and equipment permanently set
in place.
• All utilities are connected to central oil mist console
and oil supply/demisting vessel.
• Temporary plastic tubing and preservation manifolds
are removed.
• Permanent supply and return drops are installed.
continued:

28. Integration
• Proper size reclassifiers are installed in mist
manifolds and SS tubing is connected.
• Collection containers and drain lines installed along
with return to collection header.
• Mist is applied to the machine.
• Full system commissioned.
• Operator training conducted.
Note: Oil mist preservation yard generators and
distribution piping can be used for storage of spare
machinery, gear boxes, turbine rotors and other
equipment as part of the store house.

29. Users of Oil Mist Preservation
• Exxon
• Shell
• Texaco
• Caltex
• Equistar
Special Note: The Next Edition of API
Specifications will Include A Section on Mist
Preservation;
API-686; Recommended Practices
Section 5.19.4