Lower the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and reduce the total cost of ownership for your Rehlko generators. Our Conscious Care program simplifies maintenance operations using more environmentally-friendly procedures that significantly reduce fuel use and costs over the long term.
When less is more
Conscious Care maintenance program for KD Series generators
Want to reduce your fuel consumption and carbon footprint without compromising reliability and your peace of mind?
The Conscious Care maintenance program enables operators to exercise back-up generators at no load and extend the required interval to every four months. Driving down fuel and load bank expenses, while reducing sound and air pollutions, and overall greenhouse gas emissions. When it comes to making sustainable changes, sometimes less really is more.
Vital infrastructure such as hospitals and data centers depend on
mission-critical power. Should the grid fail, generators play a crucial
role in providing always-ready electricity.
Most mission-critical generators are not used daily, but they still need to be run regularly as part of
maintenance programs. These exercise runs use expensive diesel and create emissions.
In these regular exercise runs, the generator must reach the required operating temperature. This is
needed to burn any unspent fuel from the combustion process, so it does not become excess fuel in
the exhaust system. If this is not done, then ‘wet stacking’ will occur – this is hydrocarbon build-up in
the fuel system, which will lead to decreased generator performance over time.
With the traditional regiment, the exercise is conducted at around 30% load in order to reach
operating temperature - but this requires additional fuel. There is also the labor to set up load banks,
and all the cabling that goes along with that – which quickly gets expensive. And using more fuel
means more emissions.