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eration Manager, Seacor Marine Inc. Standard cartridge filters for KV engine will cost $3,2 per engine per year. Combined with cartridge disposal costs of approximately $1,2 per year per vessel, the savings with the Eliminator become very Seacor Smit installed Eliminator an auto- matic self-cleaning filter system on the crew- boat Seth McCall. FULL FLOW DIRTY LUBE OIL INTO FILTER 9% FULL FLOW FILTERED OIL INTO ENGINE 5% BACKFLUSHED FLOW INTO CENTRIFUGE CENTRIFUGED OIL BACK TO SUMP tangible. With 3 engines equipped with the Eliminator, Seacor has reduced the money spent on cartridge filters by $9,0 per year. Another source for savings is reduced maintenance hours. Instead or replacing six or seven cartridge fil- ters (typical on Cummins KV engine), the mainte- nance crew has to replace only sludge collecting paper in the Eliminator centrifuge. The filter replace-The Design The Eliminator consists of an Alfa Laval Moatti automatic, self-cleaning fil- ter and an Alfa Laval disc-stack cen- trifuge in single, compact integrated housing. These two sections comprise complete engine-mounted oil cleaning system. The full-flow section utilizes series of stainless steel mesh elements to filter the oil and protect the engine. small portion of the filtered oil is used to backflush sections of these elements to prevent dirt from accumulating on the screen. The backflushed oil containing the impurities is then fed to the separator sec- tion of the Eliminator, which is very efficient disc-stacked centrifuge that cleans oil down to the two micron level. All dirt removed in the full-flow section eventually is deposited in the centrifuge sludge where it is removed. The only maintenance required is replacement of the sludge collection paper in the sepa- r