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Advice for Proper Lubricant Storage
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Contaminants and extreme temperatures can severely affect the life and performance of your lubricants. Watch this video to understand the importance of storing lubricants indoors and away from any type of contamination as well as some of the best methods for keeping lubricants clean, cool and dry.
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Follow the steps a nuclear plant took to discover the root cause of bearing damage on its feed water pumps and learn why the plant's maintenance activities for cleanliness control were insufficient for ensuring machine health.
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Shifting from reactive to proactive maintenance takes tremendous time and effort if you try to go it alone. Noria can design effective procedures for your team in a matter of weeks and help you implement and improve faster.
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Over time, any oil analysis program can become stagnant if few or no improvements are made. This can cause the program to lose value, as it may not fully support the plant's improvement initiatives. What's worse is that the program manager may not even be aware of the decline.
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Synthetic lubricants can be a bit of a mystery. There are only a few universal truths about them. Chief among those is that they are expensive. What are some benefits of synthetics that can help justify their cost?
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Oil contaminants generally originate from three sources: the machine environment, the machine operation and the maintenance activities. By reviewing the potential contaminants that could enter your oil along with their sources, you should be able to reach the proper conclusion and eliminate the root causes.
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There is no established standard governing allowable water content for turbine oil. The best option is to keep the moisture content below the saturation point of the in-service temperature. The higher the operating temperature, the lower the oil's saturation point.
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Machinery Lubrication: Archive
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