Practicing Oil Analysis July 1999

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Jim Fitch, Noria Corporation

This past year Practicing Oil Analysis featured many end-user case studies documenting cost savings from oil analysis. Surprisingly, the majority of these studies describe the partnering of oil...

Scott Mizell, Weyerhaeuser

In an effort to improve mechanical reliability and reduce maintenance costs, Weyerhaeuser Flint River Operations undertook an aggressive program to implement proactive maintenance...

Did you ever wonder just how much water is in your hydraulic or lube oil? Wouldn't it be nice to have that information without sending the fluid out to a laboratory? Free water in hydraulic,...

Drew Troyer

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to adopt and enforce more rigorous nitro-oxidation (NOx) and hydrocarbon emission policies for heavy-duty diesel engines used in trucks...

Frank Godin

Every day maintenance personnel fill systems with chemically-depleted lubricants containing particulate, chemical and moisture contamination. Poor in-plant storage often lies at the root of these occurrences.

Question: Joel White of Weyerhaeuser was curious about the effect of flow rate, contaminant level, and viscosity on the performance of a filter, comparing the multi-pass Beta test (ISO 4572)...

Trivector plotted three-spoke spider chart. Since its founding in 1984, CSI has been driven to help customers maintain their...