General
Review of lubricants, their function, properties and classification.
Course objectives
Enable the participants to explain how to specify and handle lubricants and interpret lube oil laboratory analyses.
Syllabus
- Lubricating fundamentals
- Friction
- Hydrodynamic lubrication
- Cooling
- Neutralization
- Dirt-carrier
- Oil additives
- Classification of lube oils
- Viscosity classification SAE
- Quality classification API
- System oil for diesel engines
- Oxidation stability
- Corrosion prevention
- Alkalinity (BN)
- Cleaning ability
- Bacterial infection
- Cylinder lubricating oil
- Contaminants of main system oil
- Water
- Carbonaceous matter
- Abrasive matters
- Oxidation products
- Cylinder lubricants
- Fuel
- Cleaning of circulating oils
- Lube oil sampling
- Lubrication oil analyses
- Water content
- Flash point
- Viscosity
- Strong Acid Number (SAN)
- Total Acid Number (TAN)
- Total Base Number (TBN)
- Insolubles
- Pentane and Toluene
- Ash content
- Biological infection
- Handling of lubricants.
- Other lubricants, i.a.:
- Gear oil
- Compressor oil
- Transformer oil
- Grease
- Operation troubles associated with lubrication
- Disposal of used lubricants