Owner manual
LAKOSCookingOilFrySafeSystems
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Basic Operations
The LAKOS Cooking Oil FrySafe Filtration System
consists of the following components:
One LAKOS CSX Separator specially designed for
cooking oil filtration
Two LAKOS Cooking Oil Filtration System
Collection Vessels with removable screened
baskets
Blow-down connection, vessel gauges, vessel
temperature gauges
The LAKOS Cooking Oil FrySafe System uniquely
provides filtration of hot cooking oil by continuously
removing fines, crumbs and other related solids produced during the frying of the product,
utilizing the flow created by the fryer’s existing cooking oil pump. The system continuously
filters the entire flow of cooking oil leaving the fryer’s cooking oil pump before the oil enters
the fryer’s heat exchanger. Unlike most other filtration systems, this system provides
continuous filtration of the oil with a low, steady/uniform pressure loss, independent of the
build-up of the fines and crumbs within the collection vessels.
Upon removal from the main oil flow, the fines and crumbs are deposited into one of two
collection vessels. These vessels contain one, three, or four removable screened baskets. These
baskets retain the fines and crumbs until that vessel is full, at which time the operator switches
the fines and crumbs flow to the other vessel.
The operator is allowed to remove the full fines baskets from the collection vessel only after it is
“cool to the touch” and under “zero” static pressure (see Start-Up Procedures and Operation).
During the removal of the fines and crumbs from the collection vessel, the filtration process of
the main flow continues.
This system has been designed to minimize the potential exposure of the operator to hot
and/or pressurized oil. Blow-down valves, isolation valves, pressure gauges, and