CHANGE YOUR MAINTENANCE PERSPECTIVE

What happens if your facility goes complete blackout for 1 hour? If the answer scares you by means of commercial losses and vital risks; we can then say you are running an intolerant operation. If we change the question into minutes or seconds; and we all know that actually, this downtime should never ever happen, we can then say you are running a Mission Critical Operation.

The configuration and the redundancy of the Emergency Power Systems are vital for establishing full assurance against energy outages for facilities operating with Critical Operation Code. It is additionally crucial that facilities should practice a very well programmed regular and preventive maintenance. That should include full load tests, disaster scenarios to ensure sustainability and uptime of operation. At this point, continuous maintenance of the stored fuel; for generators and dynamic UPSs, which is an active infrastructure element as Emergency Power Systems, is at the forefront. Diesel has a shelf life, and it breaks physically, biologically and chemically.

HAT HAS BEEN CHANGED: BIO-DIESEL BLENDING

Biodiesel Blending, a long-standing agenda in the European Union and the United States; As of 1 January 2018, it will become mandatory in our country. All distributors are required to biodiesel blend by at least 0.5% by this date. This rate can be maximum 5%, and 2% is supported with tax exemption. While calorific value produced from vegetable or waste oils is a significant benefit for the country’s economy as a high contribution, biodiesel requires special care regarding the stability of the fuel in medium and long-term storage.