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Demystifying Oil Analysis
Oil analysis is a touchy
subjec t for some
people. I have been to
places where reading an
oil analysis report was viewed about
the same as reading tea leaves; other
places treat oil analysis like a religion.
e true nature of oil analysis is
somewhere in between. It is one of the
many tools that reliability folks should
be familiar with since it is meant to be
a window into how our equipment is
wearing, what type of stuff is getting
into our equipment and if any of the
contamination detected is hurting the
machine or the oil.
A lot of the places I go to are
doing some type of oil analysis, or
at least attempting it. I often find
that samples are being pulled from
equipment and getting shipped out
for analysis, but nothing is being
done with the results. One recent site
visit revealed that only one piece of
equipment was having oil samples
pulled, but nobody knew who was
pulling the sample, where the sample
was pulled from, who was getting the
results or anything else. It is hard to
say you are performing oil analysis
if you don't know who is doing it or
how it is being done. Maybe it's time
to demystify oil analysis a bit.
First things first: before we can
even think about what we want to
learn from our oil, we need to find out
what our oil is supposed to look like.
So, when oil first shows up on-site,
make sure you pull a sample and run
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Jeremie Edwards
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Noria Corporation
