Industrial Air Liquid Mixing Equipment
Lubricant and Fuel Industry
Pulsair can custom design a system that mixes and blends tanks of virtually any tank size or configuration. No application is too large or too small. Our fast, efficient and economical Pulsair mixers can give you substantial savings on both electricity and compressed air. Our control systems can operate either single or multiple tanks.
Whether it's blending lubricants, mixing base stock and additives, thinning heavy emulsions or keeping storage tanks at a constant temperature, Pulsair technology has proven to be dramatically better. Pulsair blends lubricants to specification usually within 30 minutes of adding all the ingredients used in your recipe. The result is a greater profit margin for you, the operator.
A typical mixing system is operated by a touch screen Pulsair Programmable Controller (PPC) that gives operators up to the minute visual control of every tank in the system. Each tank, regardless of differences in size, can be operated from the same controller but with its own specific mixing variables and timing functions.
Currently in use throughout the world in more than 45 countries, Pulsair has been equipping petroleum tanks with our patented mixing system for more than 20 years.
For a detailed explanation and visual presentation, see How Pulsair Works.
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Pulsair Benefits for Petroleum Companies:Versatile
- Works in any tank configuration. Well suited to tall narrow tanks and horizontal cylinders.
- Ideal for heavier liquids.
- Same mixer and hardware can be used for a variety of liquids--just change the mixing parameters, pulse rate, injection time and injection pressure to increase or decrease mixing/agitation. No need to reconfigure the mixer.
- Pulsair's portable systems are ideally suited for mixing mobile vessels like rail cars and tank trucks. (Art: Use rail car art work here? I was told that the line drawings were inaccurate.)
- No critical minimum liquid depth required before the mixer can operate. Mix while you fill the tank.
- Scours the bottom. Mixing process begins at the bottom of the tank as the air bubble emerges under the accumulator plate, forcing the liquids and sediment out and away from under the accumulator plate.
- Mixes 100% of the tank's contents, unlike mechanical mixers and eductors. That leave "dead" or unmixed areas on the tank floor, particularly in larger tanks.
- Saves energy by allowing you to program an intermittent mixing cycle. With just a few pulses the kinetic energy from the rising bubbles involves the entire tank.
- Pulsair's programmable multiple tank control system means you don't need a motor gear box or impeller for every tank, another savings. Pulsair also permits mixing of viscous materials at lower temperatures than mechanical devices, which saves on the energy required to heat the product before mixing.
- Reduces plant noise levels - no screaming pumps and motors.
Examples of Pulsair Results:
- Millions saved in remediation
It would have cost several million dollars to remediate and dispose of the nearly 2-million gallon mixture in a slop oil tank full of semi-hard hydrocarbons, water and other waste material. Pulsair designed a unique system to slurry the mixture to a viscosity that could be pumped, allowing the company to recover and use most of the hydrocarbons and more easily dispose of the water and other waste materials. Since they did not have to pay to have the material removed and were able to recover much of the hydrocarbons, the savings were tremendous. - New life for old tanks
Three 40-year old tanks in Eastern Europe held 5,000 cubic meters (1.3 million gallons) of solidified bio-petrol. Previous attempts to remove 150 metric tons of the solids on the tank bottoms had cost $500 (US) per ton! The owners were concerned that the vertical lifting force of the Pulsair bubbles would damage the tanks so Pulsair engineered a system of double accumulator plates that eliminated welding to the tank bottom. We also eliminated any horizontal movement by bracing against the tank's vertical tank walls. The end product was a system that lifted the solids up into the liquid and cleaned the tank bottom so effectively that the solids in the liquid clogged all the filters and separators in the system! - Savings on energy & air justify 100% conversion
After an initial trial on several tanks, a mid-US tank farm converted all of their 100+ tanks to Pulsair. They cited greater mixing efficiencies, consistently high quality products, and a substantial reduction in consumption of compressed air and energy as the reason for making Pulsair their preferred mixing system. Cylinder tank configurations, both horizontal and vertical, ranged in diameter from 6 to 50 feet all controlled by a central Pulsair computer. - Fluidizing gelled residue
Pulsair was used to fluidize 8,000 gallons of partially gelled residue in a 12,000 gallon tank. The mixture was too viscous to drain even after heating and would have required a high torque agitator with special mounting. Pulsair was able to fluidize the mixture in just three hours and, after adding a petroleum distillate, the heavy tar was easily handled by pumps. - Minimizing heating costs
A company had lost $75,000 worth of additives when a mechanical mixer failed, leaving steam to overheat 40,000 gallons of product. They replaced the mixer with Pulsair and quickly realized increased, trouble-free production, plus additional savings in lowered steam generating costs. - Faster blending of viscous lubricants
An Eastern-US petroleum company uses Pulsair Systems for blending very viscous lubricants in two 54-foot diameter tanks. Because Pulsair increased the speed and efficiency of the mixing, a new lubricant loading rack was added next to the tanks to expediting shipping.