Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Industrial lubricants

Breakdown maintenance

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Maintenance performed after a machine has failed to return it to an operating state.

Bridging

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A condition of philtre element loading in which contaminant spans the space between adjacent sections of a philtre element, thus blocking a portion of the useful filtration.

A heavy residual lubricant stock with low pour point, used in finished blends to provide good bearing film strength, prevent scuffing, and reduce oil consumption. Usually identified by its viscosity, ...

Brinelling

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Permanent deformation of the bearing surfaces where the rollers (or balls) contact the races. Brinelling results from excessive load or impact on stationary bearings. It is a form of mechanical ...

Boiling range

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

For a mixture of substances, such as a petroleum fraction, the temperature interval between the initial and final boiling points.

Bomb oxidation

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A test for the oxidation stability of a product obtained by sealing it in a closed container with oxygen under pressure. The drop in pressure of the oxygen is a measure of the amount of oxidation ...

Abrasive wear

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Comes about when hard surface asperities or hard particles that have embedded themselves into a soft surface and plough grooves into the opposing harder surface, e.g., a journal.