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Wear Metal Analysis on Polyol Ester Base Aviation Turbine Oil Using the SpectrOil Analyzer
Aircraft gas turbine engines use synthetic polyester fluids since they are formulated to handle a wide range of severe operating conditions. The factory supplied Spectroil M/N program for compliance to the JOAP program uses D19 and D12 ...
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Using On-site Oil Analysis to keep the Engines Running at the Dakar Rally
The Dakar Rally 2021 finishes up in Saudi Arabia, and the event is known for how tough it is on race vehicles and support teams. We learned a lot about how the Minilab 123 EL solution is used by Motul for on-site oil analysis, with ...
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In-House Oil Analysis Lab Saves Gold Mine Millions in Downtime, Repair and Replacement Costs - Case Study
A low-grade surface mining operation depends upon huge and expensive equipment such as Hitachi 5500 shovels and Caterpillar 793 haul trucks. Oil analysis is essential to identify problems so they can be corrected before they cause equipment to go ...
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Rapid Analysis: Gold Mine Eliminates Reliance on Outside Lab
Point of care solutions provide the maintenance team with accurate answers about equipment when needed. This is especially important when teams are working in 24/7 operations. Waiting for data to come back in days or weeks to make ...
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Oil Analysis for Municipal Fleets
How can on-site oil analysis benefit municipal fleets? Our expert, Dan Walsh, illustrates how on-site oil analysis programs can positively impact municipal fleets. Why On-site Oil Analysis? A municipal or a city fleet generally has many sets of ...
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Simplicity Breeds Confidence: On-site Oil Analysis is Easier than Ever
Oil analysis is a core practice recognized within the reliability professional community to improve machine reliability and save money. Many companies and organizations already employ some type of oil analysis program within their maintenance ...
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Lower Maintenance Costs: Large Municipality Uses Point of Care Oil Analysis to Significantly Reduce Costs
A large municipality located in the northwestern United States operates a fleet of over 1,700 vehicles and over 3,000 pieces of motorized equipment which it uses for critical everyday functions. As you can imagine, maintenance on this equipment is ...
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5 Reasons Why Point of Care Oil Analysis Makes Sense Now
Point of care oil analysis is now established and accelerating as companies find reliability improvements and cost savings. In a recent reliability survey, between 60 to 70% of industrial facilities employ oil analysis as an important component ...
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Spectrovisc Q3000 Series Viscometer – A Portable Kinematic Oil Analysis Solution for Field-Based Users
1. Traditional Viscometer Theory and Design Current viscosity measurement techniques rely heavily on the use of capillary, cone and plate, and concentric cylinder viscometers. These devices are mainly limited to the laboratory setting and contain ...
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Emulsion breaking techniques for oil in water solvent extractions
Certain types of samples, such as those containing detergent, may form emulsions when doing an oil in water extraction into a solvent. The boundary between the solvent and the sample will have an emulsion layer that has a cloudy or milky appearance ...
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Lasernet Fines Q200 – A Solution to Oil Analysis Including Particle Count and Particle Shape Classification
LNF Technology Jointly developed by Lockheed Martin and the Naval Research Laboratory with the Office of Naval Research. LNF is a particle shape classifier that also provides a highly accurate particle count for particles greater than 4 um using ...
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Guide to Measuring Water in Oil
We have all heard the saying, “Oil and water don’t mix.” Unfortunately that doesn’t necessarily apply to lubrication oils. Water can exist in several states in lubrication oils and can do quite a bit of damage to valuable ...
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Guide to Particle Measurement Techniques
Background Particle counting is a critical aspect of any machine conditioning program and there are many tools out there available to monitor and track the quantity and severity of the contamination, be it due to external contamination or machine ...
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SpectrOil — The Accurate and Dependable Choicefor In-Service Oil And Fuel Analysis
Introduction The basis of modern oil analysis programs is the use of optical emission spectroscopy (OES) to measure the ppm (parts per million) levels of wear metals, contaminants, and additives in oil samples. Whatever an oil lab may need to ...
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Establishing wear particle limits using the theory of Dynamic Equilibrium Condition (DEC) to predict when abnormal wear modes are taking place in machinery
The basis of modern oil analysis programs is the use of optical emission spectroscopy (OES) to measure the ppm (parts per million) levels of wear metals, contaminants, and additives in oil samples. Whatever an oil lab may need to measure, ...
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MicroLab Series – Fully Automated Oil Analyzer
Introduction The MicroLab 1 is a fully automated, bench-top analyzer specifically designed for the analysis of oil samples to provide comprehensive analytical and diagnostic results of engine, generator, gearbox, hydraulics, power steering and ...
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Trending Parameters for Machinery Wear on the LaserNet 200 Series
The Beginner`s Guide to Trending Parameters for Machinery Wear on the LaserNet 200 Series Establishing alarm limits and condemnation levels for large machinery wear particles is a common topic discussed among reliability professionals. Equipment ...
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How to Monitor Lubricant Mix-Up
What is lubricant mix-up? Lubricant mix-up describes any situation where the lubricant, new or in service, does not meet the exact specification requirement. Why is it an issue? If the correct oil is not present in the system, or there is a bit ...
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A Major Municipal Laboratory Reduces FOG Measurement Time from 24 Hours to 10 Minutes with Infrared Analysis
A Major Municipal Laboratory`s analysts regularly perform Fats, Oil and Grease (FOG) measurements on wastewater samples from various industrial plants and apartment buildings. In the past, these measurements were all performed with Environmental ...
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Measuring Oil Viscosity
Measuring the Viscosity of an Oil Viscosity is the measurement of an oil’s resistance to flow. Typically, we can expect viscosity to decrease with a temperature increase, and increase with a temperature decrease. Viscosity and ...