ANALEX Oil Condition Monitors - maintaining equipment operational availability and minimising consumable costs
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Oil Condition Monitoring - Military Applications
Military equipment is expected to operate in harsh and hostile environments, often despite having been laid up in storage for months or even years.
Most armed forces operate maintenance programs (HUMS – Health and Usage Monitoring Systems) on their vehicles, engines, compressors, generators and other critical rotating equipment, which often include routine lubricant changes even though the lube oil may remain perfectly servicable.
In order to reduce wastage and minimise the environmental impact without affecting the operational availability of key equipment, the military is now investigating the use of off-line and on-line machinery and oil condition monitors to provide more accurate management information.
The armed services need to know that its equipment will function for the required duration with little if any attention, thus avoiding logistics and other operational problems. Simply changing oil before an action is no longer considered acceptable. On-line sensors in particular are able to fulfil these maintenance management requirements and will also indicate any imminent failure – for example, coolant contamination in the event of head gasket failure, before a vehicle can become stranded.
ANALEXrs On-line Machinery Oil Condition Sensors
Kittiwake's unique ANALEX range of machinery and oil condition monitors provide both an off-line monitoring and on-line, remote condition monitoring capability, enabling engineers to preserve equipment availability while simultaneously minimising costs.
ANALEXpq Off-line Oil Condition Monitoring
The ANALEX range of Ferrous Debris Monitors are suitable for use both in the field and in laboratory conditions. A sample of oil containing ferromagnetic particles is placed upon the sensor, thus altering the balance between the coils. The resulting 'out-of-balance' signal is amplified, filtered and displayed as a PQ Index, which relates directly to the mass of the ferromagnetic debris in the sample.
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