How to get Lab Equivalent Oil Analysis 24/7

Abstract

The established process for oil condition monitoring is to periodically take a sample and have it analysed in an oil laboratory. These laboratory measurements are governed by various technical standards (ASTM,DIN etc.) and customers rely on this periodic data to react to oil condition trends and/or step functions, to plan servicing and maintenance and to reduce asset downtime from failure. Real-time oil condition monitoring systems based on dielectric or impedance analysis of the oil have been available for some time but they only provide summary parameters that are hard to interpretate as they do not correlate with the laboratory oil analysis. In this paper we discuss the development of Spectrolytic’s Oil Condition Monitoring systems (FluidInspectIR®) and how, by working closely with our customers, we have developed a robust and affordable range of oil condition monitoring systems that gives our clients meaningful and understandable real time data of the same parameters and in the same units as they are commonly receive it from their oil laboratory analysis. These systems provide the customer the comfort of having quantitative and accurate key oil condition data at the touch of a button, while still utilising their standard practices through oil laboratory measurement to validate the predicted key oil parameters by the inline system.