Monthly Archives: June 2018

Hydrostatic Filtration for main loop/circuit component protection.

Hydrostatic transmissions are seeing wider and wider application, in numerous systems :- from ride on lawn mowers, to their application in lower cost 4 x 4 automotive vehicles & off highway wquipment.

Traditional Hydrostatic TransmissionJCB Digger

But there has been a recurring issue with Hydrostatic systems since their initial conception & development… in that:-

The main fluid circuit has no filtration,

This is because the fluid flows both ways in the main loop (bi-directional), as the system is used to drive the vehicle both forward and back.

Hydraulic scheme

It is not at all practical to use conventional filtration in a high pressure, bi-directional circuit, without two high pressure filter housings being employed, coupled with two non return valves, resulting in a very expensive, very large and restrictive installation, which is why it is extremely rare to find such a solution in anything but very large-high value hydrostatic applications.

Without the benefit of a filter/separator in the main hydrostatic circuit/loop, contamination generated within the system reaches higher and higher concentrations, until the pump, motors and valves catastrophically fail, as a direct result of the increasing exposure to increasing levels of generated contaminant.

Hydrostatic Transmission

Poclain Hydraulics

Previously the only filtration typically fitted to Hydrostatic systems, is on the top up line, which only sees a small amount of fluid & contamination, when the system tops up any losses.

Until now, there has been no way to address this issue… but with the Magnom CPU (Circuit Protection Unit) products, it is now possible and viable to maintain the fluid cleanliness in a high pressure hydrostatic main loop/circuit, with fluid flowing in both directions (Bi-Directional) without restriction to fluid flow!

Hydrostatic loop diagram

Consider the issue its self:-

The majority of contamination found in say a hydrostatic transmission is ‘Steel and/or Iron’

Typically built into the system during manufacture, generated during break/run in, and through general wear and tear.

This Fe contamination, free to circulate around the Hydrostatic loop, also generates Bronze, Aluminium etc, as well as even more Fe, “The Chain Reaction of Wear”

“The worse things get – The faster things get worse”  

Jim Fitch

The Fe Filter

The Fe is typically sub 15 micron in size (most sub 10 micron), so even if you could employ a conventional filter in these systems, they would not be very effective, and/or be very restrictive to flow.

The Magnom CPU range (Circuit protection Unit) was developed for just such applications,

Magnom Circuit Protection Unit range

Magnom CPU product range

Available in Alloy or Stainless steel housings, with working pressures of up-to 6000 psi (tested up to 24,000 psi),

Independent testing in hydraulic and lube systems has seen high efficiency results in ‘Single Pass’ testing (conventional filtration is multi-pass rated).

Removing contaminants down to sub micron levels, with up-to 99.97% efficiency ‘Single pass’ at 10 microns.

No moving pars… nothing to wear out!

The CPU’s are Bi-directional, and do not suffer from wash off of contaminant, they also remain transparent to fluid flow, (non restrictive) even when full of collected contaminant.

They are generally available in SAE sizes from -12, -16 & -20.

One customer described the Magnom products as “The cure for death of a transmission system”

We have yet to see any other filter/separator that can be used in these systems…

The CPU products are standard production units on many OEM applications, they are a fraction of the size of conventional filtration, and size for size offer a far greater contaminant capacity.

For even greater protection… you can install our PumpMate product in the ‘Charge Circuit’ line, thus super cleaning the system top up oil.

PumpMate Range

In some applications Magnom units are a “Fit and Forget” proposition for the user.

Our challenge is… Try one, You will not believe it until you witness it for yourself.

Magnom:- The most Important Fluid Cleaning Technology, For over 70 Years!

Magnetic filtration, Steel Production, Quenching & De-Scaling solutions

Magnom products have been widely used and accepted as the solution of choice for controlling ferrous contaminant generated in Quenching & de-scaling operations is steel plants world wide (Ferrous Contamination Removal), as well as in numerous Lubrication and Hydraulic applications.

Quenching & de-scaling operation in a steel plant

This issues with ferrous/iron & steel chips and fine contaminants, including rust & ferrous oxide, stems from the quenching and de-scaling process its self,

The quenching and de-scaling process

Where the surface scale is shed from the steel products as water is applied.

This then contaminates the water systems.

The water is typically fed into a large settlement lagoon, where the larger chips settle out,

But the small chips/contaminants recirculate, and are re-introduced into the system and process.

Destroying… valves, rotary couplings, pumps, as well as blocking spray nozzles.

damage from the quenching and de-scaling process

This results in a very costly shut down of the plant while these issues are resolved,

The resulting loss of steel production often far out ways the repair, maintenance and replacement costs.

The ultimate cost of these failures to the steel plant can be enormous, so an effective solution needed to be found, to remove all of the ferrous contamination, efficiently and cost effectively, from the water systems.

ferrous contamination

Without restricting the flow of water ‘even when full of contaminant’ as the loss of water supply to the process can have very negative consequences.

Magnom filter

Magnom IPU, MPU and In-Line products where tested and proved extremely efficient at controlling the contaminant built up in the water systems of these critical processes in steel production.

water systems for steel productionwater system for steel production 2

Thus saving expensive pumps, valves, rotary equipment, from premature failure and preventing the blocking of spray nozzles, thus improving steel production, and reducing the down time caused by ferrous contamination within these fluid systems, (loner up-time = more steel produced).

water system for steel production 3

It can be seen from the images included in this item, that all the Magnom Magnetic filter products employed in steel production have proven very effective at removal of these damaging and costly contaminants,

Magnom Magnetic filter on a water systemMagnom filter

The Magnom products have also been simple to install/deploy into specific locations within production systems, where they can deliver the best protection for critical components.

a magnom filter attached to a pipeclose-up of a magnom filter

The units magnetic cores can be easily removed from their housing, and cleaned by local operatives, and then re-fitted to the system for continuous system protection, with no replacement filtration items to purchase… simply ‘Clean and Re-use’.

magnom core magnetic filter being taken apartmagnom core magnetic filter

The revolutionary patented Magnom Magnetic Separation Equipment, has proven effective in many fluid applications, from Ferrari F1 cars, to protecting Pumps in Steel Plants, as well as in numerous other fluid systems, removing contaminants down to sub micron levels, with up-to 99.97% efficiency ‘Single pass’ at 10 microns.

And remember! The products remain non restrictive to fluid flow, even when full of collected contaminants.

Magnom :- Simple and yet very effective technology.