Managing Water in Rolling Mill Lubricating Oil
In our last post, Improving Rolling Mill Oil with Vacuum Dehydration, we discussed how the
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Oil Vacuum Dehydrators: Managing Water in Rolling Mill Lubricating Oil
Topics: hydraulic fluid contamination water Water Contamination rolling mill lubricating oil vacuum dehydrator VUD
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Improving Rolling Mill Lubricant Oil with Vacuum Dehydration
Benefits of Vacuum Dehydration for Rolling Mill Lubricant Oil
Steel mills typically use lubricants with high demulsibility for rolling mill back-up roller bearings and chocks since relatively high levels of water contaminate the oil from quenching and descaling processes. These rolling mill lubricant oils may be known as Morgoil as they are commonly used on Morgan rolling mill systems.
Topics: hydraulic fluid rolling mill lubricating oil vacuum dehydrator VUD
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4 Ways Outside Contaminants Enter Your System
4 Ways Outside Contaminants Enter your System
As an equipment owner or manager, the last thing we want to find in our system is contamination. After all, contamination means loss of efficiency or even downtime, which ultimately costs time and money. Contamination somehow always sneaks its way into our systems. So, how does contamination get in our systems and what are we supposed to do about it?
Topics: contamination oil analysis breathers
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The Dollars and Sense of Fluid Cleanliness
The Dollars and Sense of Fluid Cleanliness
The old phrase will always stand true, "A penny saved is a penny earned." When it comes to businesses and their pennies, every penny counts. When problems during the production and manufacturing process are fixed, people will say "pennies well spent." So, if pennies are so important, then what about dollars? What about thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars? What about millions of dollars? In today's production and manufacturing economy, these kinds of numbers are game-changing.
Topics: vacuum dehydrator fluid contamination bearings
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Hy-Pro's Product Spotlight: Compact Offline Filter (COF)
Hy-Pro's Compact Offline Filter
Our newest and smallest unit yet, the Compact Offline Filter is able
to fit where no other filtration equipment can. Ideal for smaller systems or where a larger offline system wouldn't fit, this solution can be permanently installed or made portable for ease of use.
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Getting to Know Demulsibility
Demulsibility
What is Demulsibility?
Demulsibility is the ability of oil to separate from water. Oil and water naturally separate because like molecules attract each other. Oil sticks with oil, water sticks with water. Oil is "hydrophobic", or "afraid of water," which is a benefit when it comes to fluids like turbine oil.
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Dynamic Filter Efficiency
Dynamic Filter Efficiency
What is Dynamic Filter Efficiency?
Dynamic Filter Efficiency matches filter testing with real-life conditions.
All hydraulic and lube systems have a critical contamination tolerance level that is often defined by, but not limited to, the most sensitive system component such as servo valves or high speed journal bearings. Defining the ISO fluid cleanliness code upper limit is a function of component sensitivity, safety, system criticality and ultimately getting the most our of hydraulic and lube assets.
Topics: varnish in hydraulic oil vacuum dehydration mining fluid samples total systems cleanliness metal analysis coalesce technology cleanliness COD lube oil turbine oil glass media demulsibility servo valves
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Fluid Life Extension
Extending Fluid Life Saves Money and Helps the Environment
Our mission is to make our customers as efficient as possible, and we achieve that with the highest quality filtration products and total system cleanliness strategies to maximize uptime, productivity and prevent costly fluid contamination related failures. Been there. Done that. Going to do it again tomorrow. But that's not the only way we make our customers efficient. Extending the useful life of in-service fluids pays big dividends in reliability, saves money on premature fluid replacement costs, and reduces the environmental impact of industry by reducing the amount of fluids used and discarded. Enhancing reliability, saving money, and protecting the environment are not only good business, they're our responsibility. To help reduce oil usage, let's first understand why fluids are condemned and prematurely replaced.
Topics: varnish in hydraulic oil hydraulic fluid dirt vacuum dehydration filter housing sizing oil darkening mining fluid samples oil analysis filter performance paper mill fluid transfer filters filter cart gearbox LCS duplex high-pressure indianapolis filter elements lube oil turbine oil desiccant demulsibility
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Bearing and Component Life Extension
Extending Bearing and Component Life and Saving Money
Improving fluid cleanliness means reduced downtime, more reliable equipment, longer fluid life, and fewer maintenance hours. In addition, it also means reduced component replacement and repair expenses.
Topics: EHC hydraulic filters Gearbox filtration vacuum dehydration filter housing sizing oil darkening mining fluid samples filtration Fluid Analysis total systems cleanliness metal analysis fluid transfer fluid analysis guide coalesce technology filter cart gearbox indianapolis lube oil turbine oil demulsibility
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Understanding ISO Codes
ISO Cleanliness Codes Explained
The ISO Cleanliness Code (per ISO4406-1999) is used to quantify particulate contamination levels per milliliter of fluid at 3 sizes - 4µ, 6µ, and 14µ. It is expressed in 3 numbers (example 19/17/14) where each number represents a contaminant level code for the correlating particle size. The code includes all particles of the specified size and larger.
It is important to note that each time a code increases, the quantity range of particles is doubling. Inversely, as a code decreases by one the contaminant level is cut in half.
