Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A test where infrared light absorption is used for assessing levels of soot, sulfates, oxidation, nitro-oxidation, glycol, fuel, and water contaminants.

Four ball tester

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

This name is frequently used to describe either of two similar laboratory machines, the Four-Ball Wear Tester and the Four-Ball EP Tester. These machines are used to evaluate a lubricant's anti-wear ...

Force feed lubrication

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A system of lubrication in which the lubricant is supplied to the bearing surface under pressure.

Food grade lubricants

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Lubricants acceptable for use in meat, poultry and other food processing equipment, applications and plants. The lubricant types in food-grade applications are broken into categories based on the ...

Fatigued

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A structural failure of the philtre medium due to flexing caused by cyclic differential pressure.

False brinelling

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

False brinelling of needle roller bearings is actually a fretting corrosion of the surface since the rollers are the I. D. Of the bearing. Although its appearance is similar to that of brinelling, ...

Fatigue life

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The theoretical number of revolutions (or hours of operation) a bearing will last under a given constant load and speed before the first evidence of fatigue develops on one or more of the components.