
One of Europe's leading company in the field of Landfill Gas Utilization, with over 60 MW of contracted capacity recently installed MetalAlert - Metal Particle Detectors. The company operates and maintains all their own engines and has a dedicated maintenance team of field service personnel. As these engines operate without an operator on site, all engines are fitted with remote monitoring and control telemetry link with head office.
It is imperative that any early signs of a pending problems are very quickly identified.
To assist in the task, 2 MetalAlert Metal Debris
Detectors were purchased for testing and evaluation.
They were installed on Caterpillar 3500 gas engines. After many
hours of operation, it was decided to install MetalAlert Metal
Debris Detectors on additional engines and 20 detectors and controllers
were ordered.
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