The Mini-Lab Concept as an Alternative to Conventional Oil Analysis

Abstract

Analysis of used oil has proven itself to be a useful condition monitoring technique for mechanical equipment. Traditional oil analysis involves taking an oil sample and sending it away to a remote laboratory for analysis. This has many short comings such as lack of ownership of the program and long lead times for recovering results. Until recently installing lubricant analysis capabilities on site have been precluded as instrumentation has been cost prohibitive. However recent developments in both instrumentation and intelligent software allows successful and cost effective implementation of on site lubricant analysis capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADP010159

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  • Grahame Fogel

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Additives (Chemicals)
  • Contamination
  • Degradation
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Engines
  • Environmental Pollutants
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Industrial Plants
  • Instrumentation
  • Lubricants
  • Magnetic Properties
  • Maintenance
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Particles
  • Reliability

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