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How to Detect Soot in Diesel Oil
"What is the best method to detect soot in diesel oil? Our labs use Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy as a primary means of measuring soot in used diesel engine oils. I have been told that...
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Polaris Adopts New Oil Testing Method
Polaris Laboratories recently adopted the new American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) test method to measure the acidity of oils. Released in December 2014, ASTM D7946 was designed to test...
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How to Determine Engine Oil Quality
While most engine oils are made to acceptable standards, their general and specific qualities can vary widely. Poor-quality engine oils are often put on the market due to ignorance or greed....
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Bureau Veritas to Open Oil Condition Testing Facility in South Africa
Bureau Veritas recently announced that it will provide lubricant and oil analysis services in South Africa with the launch of a new testing facility. The new laboratory is expected to assist...
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Anton Paar Develops New Method for Preparing Oil Samples
Anton Paar recently developed a new method for preparing lubricants and petroleum products for metals analysis in less than 90 minutes. The Multiwave PRO system performs microwave-assisted,...
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How to Select the Right Oil Analysis Lab
"What are the top three characteristics you look for when considering an oil analysis laboratory (i.e., turnaround time, price, quality, capabilities, etc.)?" Selecting an oil analysis laboratory can...
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Why Laboratory Personnel Should Be Certified
The certification of laboratory-based personnel is essential in supporting quality lab systems, as some accreditations do not guarantee technical accuracy. Most lab systems are designed to ensure...
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Establishing Elemental Limit Values for Motor Oils
Limit and warning levels from elemental spectrometric analysis serve as indicators of the amount of foreign particles found in used oil that is still tolerable or, when compared with fresh oil,...
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Should You Use a Lubricant After Its Expiration Date?
"Can I use a lubricant after its expiration date to lubricate a machine? What test is required before its use?" Whether you should use a lubricant after its expiration date depends on the type of...
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Polaris Releases New Oil Analysis App
Polaris Laboratories recently released a new mobile app for viewing and managing oil analysis data anywhere, anytime. The Horizon Mobile app, which is designed for devices running iOS 8 and higher,...
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Gearbox Condition Monitoring Through Used Oil Analysis
When the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, purchased new planetary gearboxes for its wastewater sludge dewatering centrifuges, it decided to implement a proactive used oil analysis maintenance strategy....
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Benefits of FTIR Oil Analysis
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a versatile tool used to detect common contaminants, lube degradation byproducts and additives within lubricating oils. It has become a widely used...
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How to Select Machines for Oil Analysis
A few years ago, someone mentioned to me that many of his machines were not good candidates for oil analysis because they used little oil that wasn’t worth saving. He added that by the time you...
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Intertek Expands Oil Condition Monitoring Service to Australia
Intertek recently announced that it is expanding its oil condition monitoring (OCM) service to Melbourne, Australia. The company offers a full suite of oil analysis services to assist owners and...
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Maxxam Analytics Opens New Oil Analysis Laboratory
Maxxam Analytics recently opened a new testing facility in Edmonton, Alberta, that will provide lubricant and oil analysis services to help maintenance managers in both the industrial and heavy-duty...
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Monitoring Oil Degradation in Gas Engines
"What are the acceptable limits of nitrogen oxides in the exhaust of gas engines? Recently, one of our customers was facing nitration issues in a gas engine. A nitrogen oxide test was recommended, and...
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Exelon Named Gill Award Winner
Exelon’s Phil Silveri (left) and Nishant Prasad (center) accepted the Augustus H. Gill Award from ICML executive director Suzy Hitchcock (right) at the recent Reliable Plant Conference and Exhibition...
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Tracking the Life Cycle of Your Lubricants
What do you do with your oil analysis data? Do you thumb through the results looking for outliers and act upon those? Do you look at histories and gauge expectations against current analysis? There...
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How to Build a Killer Lube Analyst Résumé
The demand for highly qualified lubricant analysts is rising at a fast pace, and this growth trend will not be changing anytime soon. Why? It’s because the broader reliability field is also soaring...
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A New Approach for Determining the Acid and Base Number of Used Oils
The acid number and base number of in-service oils are considered key indicators of oil quality and are used to monitor the accumulation of acid and the depletion of the base additive package. A...
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