A Jiskoot Bunker Blender system is at the heart of an investment programme to upgrade operational capabilities at the Eg3 Refinery near Puerto Galvan, Argentina, by its new owner Petrobras Energia.

Jiskoot is also supplying sampling systems for the marine and pipeline reception points.
The blender will produce bunker fuels on demand by using a Jiskoot Insight controller housed in a safe area control room near the marine fuels dock. The operator simply enters the required volume and viscosity or selects a stored ‘recipe’ on a touch sensitive screen.
This system automatically meters, blends, analyses, corrects and loads the exact viscosity mixture. The system slows down gradually when the pre-established volume is almost complete before closing down and generating a dispatch report.
By avoiding the production of any leftover blended product requiring storage or disposal, the new equipment significantly reduces the cost in man hours, storage tanks and operation of the manual batch blending process that was previously used. It also eliminates the possibility of human error and costly corrections.
Finally, a sampler on the blender takes flow proportional samples of the blend for fiscal proof of the final product quality.
It also analyses the mixture using a viscometer in a slipstream.