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Machinery Lubrication May-June 2020

Machinery Lubrication magazine published by Noria Corporation

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42 | May - June 2020 | www . machinerylubrication.com ere is a lot of time and money invested in getting good, clean oil delivered to indus- trial sites around the world today. Upon initial reception at proactive, best-practice facilities, a lubricant may be tested for cleanliness, go through a filtration system and stored in a climate-controlled lube room prior to being staged for later use. When needed, these lubricants are intro- duced into a machine where they will lubricate components until they have reached the end of their life, but then what? While assessing lubrication programs in multiple industries it is clear to see the amount of detail put into the front half of a lubricants life. However, it often gets noticeably quiet when you ask most people about how the lubricants are handled once they are drained from a machine. e general consensus is to put these oils in containers labeled used or waste oil and have them removed from the site. However, there are federal and state regulations as well as cost benefit factors that can be affected by the handling of these lubricants. Before we review how these lubricants should be handled, let's first go over the difference between used oil and waste oil. e Environ- mental Protection Agency (EPA) defines used oil as any oil that has been refined from crude oil or any synthetic oil that has been used and, as a result of such use, is contam- inated by physical or chemical impurities. To break down this defi- nition a little more, let's go over the origin as well as machines it might come from and the contamination that makes it used oil. In order to fall under the used oil specif ication, it must have started as crude oil (refined oil from the ground) or synthetic oil (man-made oil from petroleum materials). Drained lubricants that derived from vegetable or animal oil can not be classified as used oil. Typical machines that used oil might come from include vehicle engines, industrial gearboxes and pumps, compressors and even hydraulic units. e physical contamination that makes these lubricants fall into the used oil category might include metal shavings or debris from the machines they are used in, while the Understanding the Difference Between Used Oil and Waste Oil It often gets noticeably quiet when you ask most people about how the lubricants are handled once they are drained from a machine. " O il Was te BACK PAGE BASICS Travis Richardson | Noria Corporation

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