way to ensure the oil
quality coming in is to
sample each compartment of the truck
before it is loaded into
the storage tank.
A bulk storage
system complete with
piping offers many
great sampling opportunities so you can be
confident that the
machines attached to
it are receiving oil that
Hard-piping machines to a fixed oil supply is one way to address a lack of available labor to handle oils. is clean, cool and dry.
If you are able to
The advantage of storing large amounts of oil onsite is the cost deliver lubricant to your machines with those three qualities, no
savings associated with purchasing oil in bulk volumes as opposed matter how it gets there, the machines will have a longer life and run
to drums. Generally, the larger volumes of oil you buy, the greater more efficiently.
the discount you receive. In addition, there will be less drum inven- About the Author
tory to be kept on hand. Of course, not all facilities utilize enough
Wes Cash is a technical consultant with Noria Corporation. He is a
oil for piped lubricant systems to be cost-effective.
mechanical engineer who holds a Machine Lubrication Technician (MLT)
Beware of buying tanker trucks full of oil. If the truck is filled Level II certification and a Machine Lubricant Analyst (MLA) Level I certiwith the wrong oil or a bad batch of oil, all of the machines piped fication through the International Council for Machinery Lubrication
to the storage tank will be at risk of receiving this bad oil. The only (ICML). Contact Wes at wcash@noria.com.
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