Today’s environmental laws and regulations put the responsibility of tracking used oil and similar waste streams on the user.
When to Perform an Oil Flush
What should you do when a lubricant doesn’t get a clean bill of health?
More specifically, what must be done with the machine that contained a degraded or contaminated lubricant after the oil drain?
Is a flush required?
Error-proofing Lubrication
The world’s worst air disaster occurred in 1977 on the Spanish Island of Tenerife. The accident which claimed the lives of 583 people onboard two Boeing 747s was attributed to a series of unfortunate coincidences and mistakes, the most heinous being the decision by one of the pilots to initiate an unauthorized takeoff on a runway where the second plane was taxiing. As a result of this accident, new rules were established for cockpit communication between pilot and first officer, which until 1977, allowed for a dogmatic style of command where the second officer was not permitted to challenge or second-guess any pilot decision. This, along with other changes, was immediately implemented in an attempt to prevent a similar catastrophe from recurring.
How to Detect and Correct Oil Leaks
“In the course of improving our lubrication management, we discovered that lube oil leaks were being recorded frequently. When combined with higher lubricant consumption, this has led to increased costs and has had an impact on the environment. What can be done to improve our processes and reduce oil consumption and the environmental hazards?”
How to Define and Achieve Hydraulic Fluid Cleanliness
It is widely accepted that particle contamination reduces the service life of hydraulic components. Fact is, some level of particle contamination is always present in hydraulic fluid, even in new fluid.
