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In This Issue
| - How Long Should Oil Be Filtered?
- Predict Machine Failure with Oil Analysis
- How Temperature Affects Grease
- Solving Wear Problems
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| How Long Should Oil Be Filtered? |
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| When filtering oil, a good rule of thumb is to run your filtration unit until the total flow through the filters equals the volume of seven times the reservoir capacity. Because of differences in oil viscosities and the bypass valve used to keep the filter pressure in the acceptable range, you may not be able to use rated pump flow rates to determine how long it will take to reach this goal. We had to add flow meters on our filtration skid so we would know how much oil had actually gone through the filters. (Bill Jacobyansky, Guardian Industries)
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 | How can you predict when a machine is going to fail? While there are many predictive technologies available, including vibration monitoring and thermography, do not overlook oil analysis. Oil analysis can be a powerful predictive technology. Watch this video to learn how to obtain a representative oil sample from a live-zone area so you can see what is going on inside a machine and monitor the wear rate. |
| Don't Risk Lubrication Contamination!
Learn How To Control It In Three Easy Steps:
Contamination accounts for nearly half of all lubricant related failures. Download this easy-to-read guide to learn how to Identify, Remove and Prevent contamination.
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Question: How would the consistency of grease change with a change in temperature?
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From "Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting":
Wear failures differ from many other types of failures, such as fatigue, because wear takes places over a period of time. Seldom does the part suddenly cease to function properly. In most instances, wear problems are solved by two approaches: the service conditions are altered to provide a less destructive environment, or materials more wear resistant for the specific operating conditions are selected. Because the latter method is easier and less expensive, it is chosen more frequently. |
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Perform field tests and lubricant inspections in 60 seconds with Luneta’s new Condition Monitoring PodTM. CMP allows early detection of abnormal machine and lubricant health conditions to optimize proactive maintenance alerts.
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Poll Question: Does your plant have any offline (kidney-loop) oil filtration systems installed?
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