Increasing Longevity of Rotational Equipment

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Increasing Longevity of Rotational Equipment
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• Lubrication oil cleanliness is probably the
  single most important factor determining your
  rotational equipment longevity.

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• The British Hydromechanics Research Association
  (BHRA) conducted a three year controlled field
  study of 117 hydraulic machines
• injection moulding,
• machine tools,

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• material handling,
• mobile equipment (earth moving, etc),
• marine hydraulics,
• and test stands

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• with the sole purpose of correlating fluid
  cleanliness to breakdown frequency. The results
  published are extremely compelling and worthwhile
  heeding.

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• You would assume that operating machinery within
  oil cleanliness specificationsshould assure that
  the life of the equipment is reasonable, RM is
  fair and downtime minimised. But what if the
  lube circuit oil is maintained at several levels
  of cleanliness above the norm?

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• The answer is surprising and the BHRA study shows
  that based on a datum of ISO 18/15 oil that oil
  that is two grades cleaner will outperform the
  datum oil by 1.8x reliability based on
  breakdowns. If the oil is running at ISO 22/19
  then breakdowns are far more frequent and more
  than twice as problematic.

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• The chart also shows that the new clean oil
  received from the supplier is typically ISO
  21/18, and potentially harmful to your machinery
  if not polished before first use.

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• If you suffer an event that compromises the
  cleanliness of your oil contact BioKem and seek
  advice as the oil should be able to be recovered,
  dehydrated, filtered and polished so that it
  exceeds a new oil spec. A cheaper and sometimes
  quicker solution than ordering new oil.

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• BioKem has the equipment to perform on-site oil
  purification to rectify post-event lubrication
  circuit contamination without discarding the oil
  and installation of conditioning vacuum
  dehydration equipment running kidney loop
  filtration.

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• To know more information, visit us

http//www.biokem.com.au/