@inproceedings{2ab98185220941bc82a38172fd7b4011,
title = "Portable lubrication analytical instrumentation for maintenance application",
abstract = "Maintenance practices have a beneficial economic impact in industry. Industrial equipment operators are continuously forced to reduce operating costs while increasing profits to remain competitive. Reaching optimum lubricant capabilities can extend the life cycle of assets, help achieve lower operating costs and maintain the harsh continuous cycling of machinery. Attaining these capabilities without hindering system performance often requires modern portable technologically advanced condition monitoring instruments. Increasingly, these portable instruments arc replacing the conventional practice of analysing lubricants in commercial laboratories. Delays in laboratorial analysis are eliminated, maintenance response time is increased and production output is increased. This paper describes the differences of analysing used oils from industry with a bench mounted commercial laboratorial instrument and an on-site portable oil analyser. Furthermore, an evaluation of the modern portable analytical instrumentation that is available for on-site lubrication analysis is conducted. The research has found that the same maintenance action is prompted by the results of both the commercial instrument and the portable instrument that was used for testing. This paper has also listed other modern, portable, analytical instrumentation for lubrication analysis and described their operating principles, benefits, limitations and applications. The research has shown that a full range of portable instrumentation is available for a complete on-site analysis of lubricating oils. This research will be of interest to analytical instrumentation manufacturers, maintenance departments and senior managers concerned with manufacturing innovation, manufacturing processes and life cycle engineering.",
keywords = "Ftir oil analyser, Lubricant analytical techniques, Maintenance, Oil analysis, Production optimisation",
author = "Adrian Chaplin and Frances Hardiman and Daragh Naughton",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science",
publisher = "Newswood Limited",
pages = "746--751",
editor = "Ao, {S. I.} and Len Gelman and Len Gelman and Hukins, {David W.L.} and Andrew Hunter and Korsunsky, {Alexander M.} and Ao, {S. I.} and Ao, {S. I.}",
booktitle = "WCE 2015 - World Congress on Engineering 2015",
address = "Hong Kong",
note = "2015 World Congress on Engineering, WCE 2015 ; Conference date: 01-07-2015 Through 03-07-2015",
}