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Industrial lubricants

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Industrial lubricants

Coking

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The undesirable accumulation of carbon (coke) deposits in the internal combustion engine or in a refinery plant. The process of distilling a petroleum product to dryness.

Cohesion

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

That property of a substance that causes it to resist being pulled apart by mechanical means.

Coefficient of friction

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The number obtained by dividing the friction force resisting motion between two bodies by the normal force pressing the bodies together.

Coalescor

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A separator that divides a mixture or emulsion of two immiscible liquids using the interfacial tension between the two liquids and the difference in wetting of the two liquids on a particular porous ...

Cloud point

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The temperature at which waxy crystals in an oil or fuel form a cloudy appearance.

Cleanable philtre

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A philtre element which, when loaded, can be restored by a suitable process, to an acceptable percentage of its original dirt capacity.

Collapse

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

An inward structural failure of a philtre element which can occur due to abnormally high pressure drop (differential pressure) or resistance to flow.

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