Rüdiger Krethe, Managing Director, OilDoc GmbH
Long-life oils are predominantly used today for the lubrication of passenger car combustion engines. These long oil drain intervals of 30,000 kilometres in car engines, and even 100,000 kilometres or more in diesel engines of trucks used in long-distance transportation, are achieved without complicated oil management: no oil analyses, no RULER, no MPC test.
That sounds great: Long oil drain intervals, no oil condition monitoring, no sampling, no complicated laboratory reports. The question is: can this simple concept be transferred to turbine lubrication?
And if not: what is so different about the lubrication of turbines compared to that of today’s high-performance engines?
The presentation uses simple facts first to show that economic operation of turbines and other production plants is not possible without professional lubrication management, especially under the challenging conditions of today, and the outstanding importance of modern oil condition monitoring and oil care concept.
Several practical examples demonstrate the power of modern analysis methods and that only the right combination of monitoring methods and the understanding of their interaction reveal the true potential. The lecture is rounded off with a number of practical tips from the author’s many years of experience.