Oil Condition Monitoring Equipment

 Oil condition monitoring is an important aspect of lubrication reliability. Most lubrication systems are designed as per international standards of ISO, ASTM, API, or others. Lubricating oil quality and its maintenance find utmost priority in the maintenance manuals of the OEMs.

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There are multiple oil quality parameters which need to be tested at regular intervals. These parameters thus obtained are compared to the reference values as provided by the OEMs or the international industry standard documents.

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However, in absence of in-house infrastructure for testing and monitoring, maintenance professionals struggle to follow an ideal oil analysis programme. Their dependence of outside agencies for sampling, testing, and trend monitoring pulls back the basic intent of periodic oil condition monitoring.

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Minimac offers equipment for on-site testing and monitoring of oil conditions. The need of a laboratory infrastructure or specialized lab personnel is mostly not mandatory to operate the offered equipment and instruments. Regular maintenance professionals can be trained easily to use the instruments and equipment, thereby empowering them towards self-dependence.


The category of oil condition monitoring can be further divided into 2 sub-categories of instruments:

  • Manual Oil Condition Monitoring Instruments

  • Automatic Oil Condition Monitoring Instruments


  • Automatic Oil Condition Monitoring Instruments




  •  Description:


The automatic oil condition monitoring instruments are mainly used for accurate analysis. These are comparatively costlier than manual oil condition monitoring instruments. These instruments work with minimum human interference and thereby have much reliable and accurate results.

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These instruments are selected under following circumstances:

  • High accuracy requirements

  • High criticality of the lubrication or hydraulic system

  • Requirement of real-time reporting of oil parameter values for further control and action

  • Computation of trend and prediction of future failures.

  • Compliance to the equipment O&M standards

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Testing instruments offered under this category of products are:

  1. Online slave type laser particle counters (NAS Analysers)

  2. Portable online laser particle counters  (NAS Analysers)

  3. Portable offline-cum-online laser particle counters  (NAS Analysers)

  4. Automatic Karl Fischer titrator

  5. Automatic titrator for TAN

  6. BDV test kit


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Manual Oil Condition Monitoring Instruments



Description:


The manual oil condition monitoring instruments are generally economical and used for on-site analysis of oils on a regular basis. The results thus obtained by this equipment are approximate and their correctness depends on human interference factors.

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These instruments are the best choice under following circumstances:

  • Low cost 

  • Fast testing/analysis

  • Trend monitoring

  • Less sophistication

 

Testing instruments offered under this category of products are:

  1. Visgauge

  2. Hydrogauge

  3. Patch test kit

  4. Titration kit for moisture detection

  5. Titration kit for TAN detection


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