Owner manual
LAKOSCookingOilFrySafeSystems
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Start-Up Procedures and Operation
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Clean/Servicing a Collection Vessel
During the normal operation of the system, the fines are being continuously separated from the oil and
transferred to one of the two fines vessels. Each fines vessel is equipped with one, three, or four
removable fines baskets, which capture and retain the fines, internal to each fines vessel. The fines
baskets will require periodic removal and cleaning. To clean the fines vessel, the operator will be
required to open one of the fines collection vessels. To prevent the operator from being exposed to hot
pressurized oil, the system employs several gauges and isolation levers to enter the vessel safely. During
this operation a blow-down will be conducted to relieve the vessel of oil left in from filter mode.
Switching of the tanks is required during this process as well. The following procedures are suggested
by LAKOS for switching vessels and cleaning vessels.
Switch Collection Vessel to Tank 1
Fines vessels are to be switched on differential pressure read from the fines vessel gauges. The
differential pressure used to indicate the change should be logged on a check sheet for future reference
(Sample Located in this Section). The indicator for which vessel is in use is the pressure and temperature
gauge on a fines vessel. The vessel in use will be pressurize and to temperature.
1. Vessel 1, t-bolt closure securely closed
2. Splash guard lowered
3. Valves #11 and #10 are closed
4. Valve #7 is open
5. Switch valve #6 position to change vessels