FUELS & OILS
lubricants will extend the life of lubricated
equipment and reduce maintenance costs
through unplanned and premature
failures. Establishing cleanliness targets
and measuring performance against these
benchmark targets is often a first step
and may assist maintenance professionals
to quantify potential savings. However,
there needs to be a balance between
setting realistic and manageable cleanliness
targets that deliver real value to the business
as opposed to increased filtration costs for the
sole purpose of achieving idealistic and
unjustified cleanliness levels with improperly
devised value determination.”
Plug and play fixed storage
The new isoPOD range from Australia’s Lubrication
Engineering Pty Ltd provides a purpose built,
portable, plug and play lubrication storage and
dispensing system designed for both internal and
external dispensing of lubricants typically used in
the maintenance or servicing of critical fixed plant
or mobile assets in mining. Standard features of
the isoPOD range include oil dispensing from
standard 1,000 litre IBCs or 205 litre drums and
grease dispensing from 180 kg drums; ISO
shipping container lockdown points, crane lifting
lugs and forklift channels; heavy duty, lockable
equipment access doors with separate service
staff doors and high quality, pneumatic pumps
and premium oil filtration.
Built in accordance with AS1940-2017, the
company says the isoPOD “will ensure your
lubricants are stored in a clean, easy to use and
safe manner.” The four main variants are the i10
isoPOD™ and the larger i20 isoPOD™ for internal
dispensing of lubricants into small portable
containers typically used in the maintenance or
top-up of critical assets and on-site machinery and
the e10 isoPOD™ and e20 isoPOD™ designed
specifically for external dispensing of lubricants
directly into critical assets and on-site machinery
through the use of integrated hose reels. The
smaller versions measure in millimetres 2,438W x
2,991L x 2,896H with 2 x 1,000 litre IBC (4 Max) or
8 x 205 litre and 4 x Internal Anti-Drip Outlets with
Spring Return Valves or 4 x Heavy Duty Hose Reels
with Digital Metered Hand Guns. The larger
versions measure 2,438W x 6,058L x 2,896H with
5 x 1,000 litre IBC (8 Max) or 16 x 205 litre Drum
plus 8 Internal Anti-Drip Outlets with Spring
Return Valves or 4 x Heavy Duty Hose Reels with
Digital Metered Hand Guns.
The new
isoPOD range
from Australia’s
Lubrication Engineering
provides a purpose built,
portable, plug and play lubrication
storage and dispensing system designed for
both internal and external dispensing of
lubricants
FES Tanks on fuel farms
Australia’s FES Tanks based in Cairns, Queensland
manufactures, supplies and delivers professionalgrade
self-bunded fuel tanks and mobile refuelling
solutions to the mining and other
industries. “An integral secondary tank wall,
rather like a tank within a tank, has done away
with the need to build an
expensive bund wall system when
storing petrochemical liquids.
Traditional underground storage is
a thing of the past. No longer are
logistical challenges and isolated
locations restricting your progress
– instead you can install a self
bunded tank system on site
wherever is convenient, even in
very remote locations.” They have
stainless steel fittings and an
extra thick protective coating to
help prevent rust and corrosion.
Additionally, they are designed
with a Safe Fuel Limit (SFL) which
is 10% greater than standard
tanks of similar capacity. This
means that each tank goes longer
in between refills, giving long term
savings in labour and admin costs.
FES TANKS options include
everything from small mobile
diesel tanks for small excavators
up to large scale fixed form
110,000 litre diesel tanks for tank farms in the
mining industry and everything in between.
Customers in mining include Rio Tinto. Beyond
Australia, the company recently launched in PNG
and is also marketing its solutions in South Africa
and Nigeria via distributors.
FES Tanks also sees fuel farms using selfbunded
tanks as the way forward
for most mining operations,
with over 200 fuel farms in
WA alone, and about half of
those in the mining sector.
MD at its Australian
distributor NQPetro, Craig
Cygler, says the first
consideration for miners
planning remote fuel storage
farms is consumption – getting
the capacity right can reduce the
frequency of fuel deliveries, which
means significant cost savings in remote
locations. “The first consideration is what type of
machinery will you be filling and how many
vehicles, and that will give you an idea of the
storage capacity you need and the required flow
rate,” he says. “For example, if you’re only looking
at 10 vehicles you might only need two to three
tanks. Most fuel farms might have 5-10 100,000
litre tanks, giving them 500,000 to 1 million litres
FES TANKS self bunded fuel tank options include
everything from small mobile diesel tanks for
small excavators up to large scale fixed form
110,000 litre diesel tanks for tank farms within
the mining industry and everything in between
International Mining | JULY/AUGUST 2020