Parker launches three new filtration products at Hannover Messe 2009

New “World Pressure Filter” incorporates ECO-Intelligent performance media that will typically reduce disposal waste and cost by over 50%.

Hydraulic filter solutions for the future require a radically different approach and Parker Filtration’s approach underlines an ability to support customers with the design and realization of ‘new generation’ filters such as the WPF.

Parker Filtration offers hydraulic system designers the possibility to integrate various system functions into single components. This can result in cost reductions for the application in manufacturing and end-user maintenance and can realize more compact solutions and lower environmental impact by reducing leak points for example. Integrating high pressure filters such as the WPF with unique, quality media and patented elements will guarantee the quality of filter performance and maximize system component protection.

At 414 bar maximum working pressure and flow options up to 700 L/Min, the WPF Series filter offers a new ECO-Intelligent performance media that will typically reduce disposal waste and cost by over 50%. This new filtration media has been designed into a patent-protected element range, whose unique element design reduces time to change and eliminates oil spillage during change-over as the element remains in the bowl when it’s removed from the filter head.

The bowl of the new WPF filter can be quickly removed as no tools are necessary, and the integral element requires the minimum of space for removal allowing the filter envelope to be kept to a minimum.

New WDPF high pressure duplex filters includes new innovative solution to allow remote switching.

Instead of the manual operation of the main duplex valve and equalizing line, Parker’s hydraulic solenoid valve technology makes a safe and remote operation possible in this new WDPF high pressure duplex filter. This process can be fully automated, when one filter elements gets contaminated, the filter condition indicator provides a signal to the duplex valve unit for direct switching to the other filter with a new element. At the same time, a warning signal is provided to the local overall system controller that one filter element requires replacement.

In general before switching the duplex valve, an equalizing line needs to be activated to avoid excessive pressure peaks when putting the unused filter element in operation. This new solution overcomes the risk of the traditional manual process where correct usage of the equalizing line cannot be guaranteed. Excessive pressure peaks can result in the damage of system components and seals, causing unexpected standstill and maintenance to process equipment.

By using Parker’s patented filter elements, the quality of filtration is safeguarded as well.

New icount Mini-Lab eliminates the need for laboratory sample testing.

The new icount mini-lab has been developed to remove the engineer’s reliance on external laboratory services for accurate solid particle contamination analysis of liquids.

Consisting of an icount bottler sampler, a laptop computer containing the Parker analysis software with printer and all the necessary cables mounted in an easily transportable trolley, the icount mini-lab is able to provide similar accuracy to sampling carried out in a professional laboratory.

Each mini-lab is supplied with 30 Parker oil sample bottles and provides a simple way for both original equipment manufacturer and end users to monitor contamination in their fluid systems on site.

Testing is carried out in three easy steps. Firstly a hydraulic fluid sample is obtained from the system to be tested, the fluid is sampled for three minutes in the icount BS bottle sampler and then the analysis report is printed out immediately.

A 3 minute test is typically all it takes to confirm just how contaminated the sample of hydraulic oil is. The icountBS Bottle Sampler (IBS) provides on-board, laser based, particle counting technology and a 3 minute maximum test and oil contamination report programme all in one. The IBS features an interactive touchscreen, a pressurized bottle chamber via an internal compressor pump, bottle cavity aperture design, sample tube cleaning sleeve minimizing contamination cross over, and an internal printer.

Icount Mini-Lab offers a unique on site contamination monitoring solution for engineers and maintenance personnel and provides reproducible results performance to ISO4409:1999 and NAS1638 particle count distributions. Knowing how much particulate is contaminating a hydraulic system is the first step to cleaning a system and keeping it clean. Icount Min-Lab is the cost-effective alternative solution to external laboratory services.