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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 the SpectrOil oil analyzer, in their mobile lab during the 2018 Dakar rally. See Motul’s 2018 article below to learn how testing the oil of an engine is like ...
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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 down for major repairs. In the past, a multinational mining firm sent samples to an outside lab for analysis but the cost of this approach limited the ...
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Infrared Analysis Reduces Regulatory Fats, Oil and Grease (FOG) Testing Costs and Provides Fast Results
Wastewater professionals who are enforcing industrial effluent standards for fats, oil and grease (FOG) either must perform numerous gravimetric tests or spend a considerable amount of money with a contracted testing laboratory. Infrared analysis. using portable instruments such as the InfraCal TOG/TPH Analylzers -provides an alternative which will significantly reduce costs and save time. The ...
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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 transmission fluids. The MicroLab was developed to bring oil analysis capability to any company that maintains equipment and seeks to improve their overall ...
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Overview of Fluidscan Handheld Infrared Oil Analyzer
Oil analysis is a critical predictive maintenance technology. Service or reliability profes-sionals, whether managing a truck or locomotive fleet, a marine vessel or fixed assets in an industrial plant, rely on oil analysis information to schedule maintenance actions. The need to continuously improve uptime and reduce maintenance costs demands in situ oil analysis results for better ...
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Under the Hood - Meeting the Design Challenge of the Fluidscan Handheld Infrared Oil Analyzer
Mid-Infrared (Mid-IR) spectroscopy is widely used for lubricant formulation and evaluation because of the detailed information on chemical composition provided by this technique. In recent years, it has been deployed as a condition monitoring tool in laboratories worldwide providing degradation information of in-service lubricants by measuring properties such as Oxidation, Nitration, Sulfation, ...
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Large City Fleet Saves $2M Using Oil Analysis to Extend Oil Drain Intervals - Case study
Condition-based maintenance saves time and money and increases productivity A large municipality in the northwestern United States operates over 1.700 vehicles and over 3.000 pieces of motorized equipment ranging from riding lawn mowers to bulldozers Oil changes constitute a major expense. For example, the 500 heavy duty trucks in its fleet previously had their oil changed every 2,500 miles at a ...
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In-House Oil Analysis Lab Saves Gold Mine Millions in Downtime, Repair and Replacement Costs
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 down for major repairs. In the past, a multinational mining firm sent samples to an outside lab for analysis but the cost of this approach limited the ...
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5 hydraulic equipment mistakes you might be making
When dealing with hydraulic equipment, there are many intricate pieces that impact the effectiveness of these machines. There are many components of hydraulic equipment, and it is important that they all run smoothly. Here are five mistakes you may be making and how to correct them. 1. Changing the Oil If the base oil is degrading or the additive package is depleting, it’s time for an oil ...
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Oil Analysis Helps Water Plant Cut Annual Maintenance costs by $25,000 - Case study
The city of Chandler (Ariz.) Municipal Utilities Department (MUD) employs coagulation, sedimentation, active flow control and filtration to produce 60 million gal per day (mgd) of water at its surface water treatment plant. In addition, the system includes 27 wells and 21 booster stations controlled by SCADA. Water distribution is provided through more than 1,200 miles of water main, in excess of ...
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When should you change oil?
Fleets analyzing oil samples can determine if their maintenance cycles are done at the right time and also identify maintenance issues before they become bigger problems. If the oil is good, why would you change it?” Gary Lentsch, CAFM, fleet manager for Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB), asked himself. And more importantly, how much was it costing him to change oil when it ...
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Towards intelligent decision support systems for emergency managers: the IDA approach
The paper presents ENEA's next step towards the development of Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS) for large-scale industrial and territorial emergencies. The prototype IDA (Intelligent Decision Advisor) for emergency management in an oil port is analysed as a test case. The work was performed under the national R&D MICA project and specifically ENEA's long-term strategic MINDES Program ...
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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 standards which are prepared from a mineral oil hydrocarbon base stock. For applications which require improved accuracy for polyol ester based oils, the SpectrOil ...
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Monitoring heat exchanger leaks in Paper plant - Case Study
The Situation A paper plant in the Eastern United States uses 500 gallons per minute filtered pond water for cooling lubricating oil in its paper line. The resulting warmed water is diverted to an onsite pond. Because the water is used to cool lubricating oil, the plant could not reuse the water in its pulping process for fears of possible oil contamination of the paper pulp. The Problem The ...
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Design and implementation of oil and gas pool–forming simulation project database based on oilfield database
Most previous oil and gas pool–forming simulation systems running on stand–alone computers cannot maintain the consistency of fundamental data and the sharing abilities of research results. Nowadays, most of key research results have been achieved cooperatively. In combination with the features of oil field database, this paper analyses the oil and gas pool–forming simulation methods and explores ...
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Regional construction firm keeps its fleet running using on-site oil analysis - Case Study
New England Utility Constructors, Inc. (NEUCO), a Centuri Company, specializes in turnkey construction services for pipeline and natural gas and electric distribution for critical energy needs in the New England area. The efficient operation of the company’s equipment is crucial to completing construction jobs on time and meeting the energy demands of its customers. Neuco’s ...
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Different technology options for monitoring oil in produced water – inline continuous monitoring and IR analysis
No offshore facility wants to be caught with a sheen around their platform as that can result in a costly fine for exceeding discharge permit limits for oil. Onboard oil in water analyzers are necessary to ensure the oil/water separation systems are functioning properly before overboard disposal of the produced water. Bench top analyzers have traditionally been used to test oil in water although ...
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Cutters cut costs with oil analysis - Case Study
Oil analysis plays a critical role in the mission readiness of the United States Coast Guard’s fast response cutters and national security cutters by alerting engineers to problems that have the potential to damage vital equipment and help them efficiently deploy resources for critical maintenance activities. The traditional approach to oil analysis is to ship samples to a central ...
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Measurement of naphthenic acids in the receiving waters around an offshore oil platform by passive sampling
Polar organic chemical integrative samplers (POCIS) were deployed in the vicinity of an offshore oil installation and analysed for naphthenic acids (NA). POCIS accumulated a range of mono to tetracyclic NA, with different degrees of alkylation, with monocyclic acids being the most abundant. POCIS or similar polar samplers may currently be the only way to measure exposure to NA from offshore ...
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Ask the Expert: Oil Analysis in Power Generation
Uptime is one of the key considerations for all power generators. Electricity supply must equal demand at all times. Downtime, especially unplanned downtime, is very difficult to deal with and can be quite costly. Fortunately condition based monitoring can go a long way towards preventing unscheduled downtime and achieving uptime goals in excess of 98%. In particular, on-site oil analysis is a ...
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