Downtime costing power generators thousands of dollars/hour.
With downtime costing power generators thousands of dollars/hour, it's imperative to keep high value equipment, like turbines, up and running using predictive maintenance programs. In-service oil analysis is a key machine condition monitoring technique for Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) and Reliability programs.
It complements vibration analysis, thermography and other predictive maintenance technologies.
But I can send a sample to an external laboartory for full analysis?
True! But in the time it takes external laboratories to return oil sample results, machinery condition can change significantly. On-site oil analysis eliminates this wait and enables immediate decision making.
Corrosion and wear cause surface degradation of the lubricated surfaces in machinery and are the root causes of most mechanically-induced equipment downtime. Oil analysis provides early indications of equipment wear and identifies the root causes of corrosion.
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