Compressor & Gearbox Maintenance Equipment Significantly Reduces Downtime
Gearboxes and Compressors are common items of plant and are critical to production operations around the world. Gearboxes are designed for power transmission and compressors for a host of industrial gas applications and their lubricants must be carefully monitored as part of an ongoing preventative maintenance programme.
Gearbox Maintenance: Lubricants
Gear lubricants often operate under a low stress regime with long life if correctly maintained. The correct gearbox lubricant will provide slip-free power transmission at high mechanical efficiency, with good reliability, low maintenance, and long life. Gearboxes however, are a hugely critical part of the plant it is imperative that the lubricant quality is maintained. Around 80% of gearbox failures are found to be as a result of poor lubrication or oil contamination.
Kittiwake provide online gearbox maintenance sensors for oil quality, moisture, ferrous debris and particle content as well as off line instrumentation for monitoring viscosity, water, TAN, particles and ferrous debris in these oils. Further information on gearbox lubrication is given in the technical manual.
Compressor Maintenance: Lubricants
Compressors are extremely versatile and come in a range of types; piston, rotary vane, screw etc. They compress both air and gasses with very little alterations. Compressing gasses can result in condensation within the machine and as a result water is a very common contaminant. Although many oils are designed with good water shedding ability there is still a need to monitor the contamination in compressors. Some gasses (such as landfill) can also cause or increase acidification of the oils.
Oil is not generally monitored on smaller compressors as it is cheap to replace the sump charge, but larger compressors, such as those used on gas pipelines are typically driven by reciprocating or turbine prime movers and the viscosity, water, TAN/TBN tests used for these prime movers are also relevant for the compressor itself.
Call us now on +44 1903 731470 to discuss your specific needs, or visit our global network page for offices or dealers near you.
Gearbox Maintenance: Lubricants
Gear lubricants often operate under a low stress regime with long life if correctly maintained. The correct gearbox lubricant will provide slip-free power transmission at high mechanical efficiency, with good reliability, low maintenance, and long life. Gearboxes however, are a hugely critical part of the plant it is imperative that the lubricant quality is maintained. Around 80% of gearbox failures are found to be as a result of poor lubrication or oil contamination.
Kittiwake provide online gearbox maintenance sensors for oil quality, moisture, ferrous debris and particle content as well as off line instrumentation for monitoring viscosity, water, TAN, particles and ferrous debris in these oils. Further information on gearbox lubrication is given in the technical manual.
Compressor Maintenance: Lubricants
Compressors are extremely versatile and come in a range of types; piston, rotary vane, screw etc. They compress both air and gasses with very little alterations. Compressing gasses can result in condensation within the machine and as a result water is a very common contaminant. Although many oils are designed with good water shedding ability there is still a need to monitor the contamination in compressors. Some gasses (such as landfill) can also cause or increase acidification of the oils.
Oil is not generally monitored on smaller compressors as it is cheap to replace the sump charge, but larger compressors, such as those used on gas pipelines are typically driven by reciprocating or turbine prime movers and the viscosity, water, TAN/TBN tests used for these prime movers are also relevant for the compressor itself.
Call us now on +44 1903 731470 to discuss your specific needs, or visit our global network page for offices or dealers near you.
