Avoiding Hydraulic Fluid Failure Hydraulic fluids undergo some of the most extreme conditions, as such, they tend to degrade faster than most fluids. Over the last decade, we have seen OEMs reduce sump sizes by as much as 40% while clearances became tighter, efficiency demands increased and carbon footprints have been reduced. Generally, hydraulic systems […]
Does It Matter If I Flush Or Not?! Within the industry, the question of whether to flush between oil changes has been asked numerous times. “Is it cost effective, does it really make a difference to the system?” are also asked in tandem. Flushing is recommended in systems that have experienced varnish and in systems […]
Turbine Oil Flushing, Do We Really Need It? What is flushing? Within the industry, we’ve always heard that “flushing” should be done or there are particular conditions required to do a flush but what exactly is a flush? Is there one standard definition? As per ASTM D6349 (Standard guide for […]
How should Rotating Equipment Lube Oils in the Ammonia & Nitric Acid Industry be managed? Varnish in the fertilizer industry! Do you work in the fertilizer industry? If you do, then you know how critical it is for your compressors to be fully functional! Typically, we’ve seen compression gases such as ammonia, nitrogen, carbon […]
Lube Varnish in Hydrogen Seals, What Can We Do? Varnish exists in all shapes and sizes. Typically, when we think about varnish, our thoughts move towards large pieces of equipment. However, due to the nature of varnish, it usually affects the smaller (or tighter) component clearances first which in turn cause the entire machine to […]
Let’s talk about varnish Varnish has been used as a catch all phrase within the industry. Typically, any degradation found within a lube system is automatically called varnish. As you may expect, there are many different types of varnish. In the industry, there’s an ongoing debate which states that Sludge can be described as wipe-able […]
