Additonal Laboratory Services Available
Offering additonal laboratory services really help us gain an understanding of hydraulic oil & lubircants and more importantly to confirm our interpretation of results. These include tests such as RULER (Remaining Useful Life Evaluation Routine) which determines remaining life of the lubricant before it degrades when compared to a new lubricant. MPC (Membrane Patch Colorimetry) this measures the varnish potetnial in hydraulic & lubricants which are the byproducts of oxidsation leading to formation of sludge & varnish. Oxidisation is common In plastic injection & blow mouldin machinery and montoring MPC levels overtime enable us to deploy filtration methods to remove soluble varnish picked up on an MPC patch. If varnish has become insoluble it would be typical to see a low MPC rating, this is where our VRT UltraClean technology would be used to cleanse the system and components. Additional we can examine used filters elemeents which involves cutting into the pleasts, flushing with a solvent and examining the contamination trapped in the filter media. This can give indications as to route cause of failure within machinery, for example metallic components trapped can be used to identify hydraulic system wear parts suchs as pumps and cylinders through Iron and Chromium respectively.
