Oil Analysis + Wear Particle
Two Minute Tips
Using Oil Color as a Field Test
Have you ever wondered how or why the color of oil changes?
- Paul Dufresne
- Reliability Playbook, in Partnership with Lubrication Engineers
Articles
Lubrication Process Transformation
The Mosaic Company is a leader in crop nutrition and aims to help the world grow the food it needs. Reliability is essential to the company’s mission, and lubrication is a crucial part of its condition monitoring program...
Two Minute Tips
Importance of Contamination Control
Did you know that in most cases the amount of particle contamination...
- Whit Gammon
- Des-Case
Articles
How to Measure Tribology Using a 100 kHz Sampling Rate Vibration Analyzer
We can use vibration analysis to see what goes on in the interface between moving surfaces and, therefore, catch potential problems there...
- Ray Garvey
- Ametek
Articles
Sources of Sodium
Sodium is also an indicator of contamination with salt, whether it is from moisture ingression from a nearby source of salt water, or airborne particulate ingression from nearby roads that are salted in the wintertime...
- Evan Zabawski
- TestOil
Interviews
Grease Sampling and Analysis
What is the best method for getting a good grease sample? Once you have a sample, what tests are performed? Rich shares some best practices with CBM CONNECT in this interview...
- Rich Wurzbach
- MRG Labs
Articles
What Failed Demulsibility Results Mean
Demulsibility, or more correctly, water separation, is a measure of a lubricant’s ability to separate from water. Lubricants and water have a natural tendency to separate because most basestock molecules are non-polar, while water molecules are polar and will seek each other out instead of mixing with the base stock...
- Evan Zabawski
- TestOil
Articles
Introduction to FTIR Spectroscopy
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy measures additive depletion, contaminant buildup and base stock degradation in lubricants. This type of analysis complements wear metal and other analysis...
Two Minute Tips
Which Is the Best Bearing Fault Detection Technique?
Now, this is a tricky question to answer…
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
