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In This Issue
| - The Importance of Manual Inspection
- Elemental Analysis of Industrial Lubricants
- 2 Methods for Automatic Particle Counting
- Using FTIR for Condition Monitoring
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| The Importance of Manual Inspection |
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Oil analysis and particle counting are very important in unfiltered compartments such as heavy equipment final drives and differentials. However, if these compartments have magnetic plugs, occasionally the magnets will show a buildup of fuzz, and you may have the beginnings of bearing failure while the oil sample remains relatively clean. This is an example of when manual inspection is very important along with oil analysis and particle counting. (Jim Groseclose, American Colloid Company)
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Elemental analysis is the most fundamental test used in oil analysis today. It can detect between 15 and 25 different elements that are related to wear metals, contaminant metals and oil additives. Watch this 6-minute, 59-second video to learn how elemental analysis works through atomic emission spectroscopy (AES), the results you can expect to see, why you want to run elemental analysis on used and new oil, and why you can’t completely rely on elemental analysis to get a true indication of overall machine condition.
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Question: A number of methods are available for automatic particle counting. Name two of them.
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From “In-Service Lubricant and Machine Analysis, Diagnostics, and Prognostics”:
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is an important automated, qualitative, condition monitoring (CM) screening tool for in-service lubricant analysis. This screening methodology has been advanced in terms of sample throughput through the use of spectral reconstitution, allowing up to 180 pre-prepared samples to be analyzed per hour. Although CM is presently limited to mineral-based oils, it is foreseen that direct trending can be broadened to a much wider range of base stocks and formulated oils by bringing to bear new oil identification/classification capabilities and adjusting the measurement regions and parameters accordingly.
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