Lubricants, analysis Process

Dynamic mechanical analysis has been used to study the compatibility of ester lubricants, and stearic acid and its derivatives (403, 420). On the basis of a PVC melt flow test (ASTM D 3364), the effect of lubricants on processing has been determined (313). 

The spectrometric oil analysis process is useful for any mechanical moving device that uses oil for lubrication. It tests for the presence of metals, water, glycol, fuel dilution, viscosity, and solid particles. Automotive engines, compressors, and turbines all benefit from oil analysis. Most major oil companies will provide this service if you purchase lubricants from them. 

Any tendency for the lubricant to slip against the solid surfaces should also reduce the entrainment into a contact, thereby leading to a thinner, or even no hydrodynamic film formation. This has, indeed, been proposed in the analysis of viscoplastic elastohydrodynamic (EHD) lubrication [19] [20]. In this regime of lubrication, the highly pressurised and thus very viscous lubricant is assumed to drastically shear thin when it reaches a critical shear stress under EHD inlet conditions, and then to yield as a plastic solid. In EHD and also hydrodynamic lubrication, so long as thermal effects are neglected, the maximum shear stress should occur at the bounding surfaces. Consequently, in viscoplastic EHD lubrication, a process equivalent to slip should take place at the surfaces at a critical shear stress. This has been shown to lead to possible film collapse. 

This discussion refers to external plasticization only. Several theories, varyiag ia detail and complexity, have been proposed ia order to explain plasticizer action. Some theories iavolve detailed analysis of polarity, solubiHty, and iateraction parameters and the thermodynamics of polymer behavior, whereas others treat plasticization as a simple lubrication of chains of polymer from each other, analogous to the lubrication of metal parts by oil. Although each theory is not exhaustive, an understanding of the plasticization process can be gained by combining ideas from each theory, and an overall theory of plasticization must include all these aspects. 

Until recently, tribology analysis has been a relatively slow and expensive process. Analyses were conducted using traditional laboratory techniques and required extensive, skilled labor. Microprocessor-based systems are now available which can automate most of the lubricating oil and spectrographic analysis, thus reducing the manual effort and cost of analysis. 

The velocity analysis is of great important for a lubrication theory, which will lay the foundation for further processes, to obtain the flux, the pressure distribution, the load and the friction, etc. As shown before, however, the present model requires a complex procedure to achieve the results. Thus, it can be regarded as a more purely scientihc one," i.e., there is a long way to the success of predictive ability. For a practical purpose, from an engineering point of view, some simplifications should be conducted in an attempt to get the parameters of interest. 

This chapter describes a DML model proposed by the authors, based on the expectation that the Reynolds equation at the ultra-thin film limit would yield the same solutions as those from the elastic contact analysis. A unified equation system is therefore applied to the entire domain, which gives rise to a stable and robust numerical procedure, capable of predicting the tribological performance of the system through the entire process of transition from full-film to boundary lubrication. 

In the area of process monitoring TLC has been used for the study of the thermal decomposition of zinc di-isopropyl dithiophosphate (antiwear additive in lubricating oils) [458]. TLC analysis has been reported as a quality control tool for analysis of dispersing agents (alkylsalicylates, thioalkylphenolates), AOs (dithiophosphates, dialkyldithiophosphates) and their intermediates in lubricating oil (UV detection,... 

CE is also potentially a useful alternative analytical tool for monitoring of chemicals (dyes, flame retardants and lubricants) involved in various steps of the textile fibre manufacturing process. In this area, CE compares favourably with existing techniques. CZE-MSn was used for the analysis of sulfonated azo dyes [942]. A variety of fluorescent analytes including thiazole orange dyes have been characterised by CE-FLNS [943]. 

Case Study. Such a situation was found to occur in the duct network shown in Fig. 21 and installed to extract iron oxide dust at various points along a cold strip processing line. The stated problems were insufficient suction at the hoods, buildup of contaminant in the hoods and along the processing line (causing cleanup problems due to eventual mixing with hydraulic fluid, lubricant, water, etc.). Analysis of the system found the following ... 

A mathematical analysis of the process is extremely difficult and requires to solve the Reynolds equation of lubrication theory and apply the solution to the cavitation boundary conditions. A two-dimensional analysis of the pressure distribution in the plane of the roll nip showed that the liquid pressure rises sharply to a large value near the nip, and drops equally sharply to a minimum justbeyond the nip. Before large negative pressures are reached, the liquid may cavitate as a result of the expansion of entrained gases within the liquid. 

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In polymer processing, we frequently encounter creeping viscous flow in slowly tapering, relatively narrow, gaps as did the ancient Egyptians so depicted in Fig. 2.5. These flows are usually solved by the well-known lubrication approximation, which originates with the famous work by Osborne Reynolds, in which he laid the foundations of hydrodynamic lubrication.14 The theoretical analysis of lubrication deals with the hydrodynamic behavior of thin films from a fraction of a mil (10 in) to a few mils thick. High pressures of the... 

Thus each solid face makes a definite quantitative contribution to the friction, irrespective of what the other solid face may be, or what lubricant is present. At one time Hardy attempted to explain this on the theory that the influence of the attraction of the solid face extended for long distances, but more recent analysis of the occurrences during sliding indicates that the process is very complex, and that the coefficient of friction is not, as a rule, a quantity capable of simple interpretation in terms of the properties of continuous surface films, and of the underlying solid. 

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