Implementing proven methods and technologies to provide practical turn-key cleaning and maintenance services to industrial clients, AMPOL introduces The Tornado Tank Cleaning System.
The Tornado is a modern tank cleaning innovation that uses three stages of filtration, high volume flow rates and variable speed to create a new elevated standard in tank cleaning.
AMPOL’s field, management and technical knowledge offers safe, dependable, cost-effective and regulatory compliant solutions for industrial environmental issues.
Clean Tank Means Clean Fuel
When a tank is contaminated, any new fuel that is added will become contaminated by existing sludge – micro-organisms, water, and sediment – settled on the tank bottom. While most tank-cleaning units simply polish fuel, but cannot access the source of the problem, The Tornado cleans the fuel and removes accumulated sludge to eliminate future problems and additional costs for gross removal, disposal and replacement of contaminated diesel.
Three Stages Of Filtration
• Gross Particulate removal – First, a proprietary duplex bag filter assembly removes particulate down to 10 microns in size. This duplex system allows for continuous tank cleaning with its alternate chamber flow configuration – one chamber is always in use while the other is being changed out.
• Fine Particulate removal – the second stage is a high capacity filter element that filters down to .5 micron. At this level of ultra-fine filtration, particulate and the micro-organisms are filtered out.
• Water removal - the final stage of filtration removes water using a coalescer/separator filter combination that removes more than 99% of water from fuel at a rate of 15 gpm. This filter combination meets the API 1581 standard and is the same water removal process used for refueling military aircraft and commercial airliners.
