Field inspection

 


1) Visual Inspection of Oil in a Sample Bottle:


- Colour: wrong or mixed oil, photo-catalytic reaction, oxidation and thermal degradation, soot, chemical contamination

- Emulsions and Cloudiness: haze to buttermilk, cuff, stable or unstable, additive floc, salt, air, glycol

- Free Water: colour, speed of separation, level

- Sediments – colour: amber, black, translucent, settling rate, density and particle size, laser through the bottle


2) Using Oil Colour as a Field Test:


- You can check the colour of the oil sample with the help of an oil change colour gauge by using glass or PET plastic bottles

- Without a gauge, you can compare the sample with a new oil sample and observe the colour, if you find that colour of the oil is milky or dark, then check the contamination & moisture in oil with the help of an Oil testing kit


3) Moisture Detection by Vision:


- Visual inspection

- Transparent container

- Use comparators and good lighting, laser pointer is also effective

- Hazy to milky appearance may indicate water emulsion


4) Routine Inspection of Sight Glasses in Oil Analysis:


- Change in oil level – up or down, sudden and significant changes are serious

- Sight glass foaming

- Oil colour, darkening, turbidity, etc.

- BS& W bowl shows oxidised oil

- Use a blue pen-light for checking the oil level and quality insight glasses


5) Other Audible Inspection:


- Gearing – A singing gear is a happy gear, usually, it means it is one that is hitting

- Hydraulics – High metallic sounds from pumps means there is water in oils

- Marbles on the tin roof mean cavitation


6) Using your Sense of Touch:


A) Lube: Oils should feel slippery, not clingy. Greases should feel buttery, not stringy or lumpy

- Grease consistency can be estimated manually with a butter knife, you can tell the difference between #2 and #3


B) Contaminants – Sludge: hard, pasty, sticky

- Particles / Sediments

- Filter debris


7) Using Oil Odour as a Field Test:


Purpose quickly detect odour – Producing changes in an oil’s chemistry and constituents.

For best results with scenting, use comparators for examples, bottles of new oil, oxidised oil, burnt oil, diesel contaminated oil, etc.



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