Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Industrial lubricants

Relief valve

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A valve mechanism that assures system fluid flow when a preselected differential pressure across the philtre element is exceeded; the valve allows all or part of the flow to bypass the philtre ...

Surface tension

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The contractile surface force of a liquid by which it tends to assume a spherical form and to present the least possible surface. It is expressed in dynes/cm or ergs/cm2.

Surface filtration

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Filtration which primarily retains contaminant on the influent surface.

Surface philtre media

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Porous materials which primarily retain contaminants on the influent face, performing the actual process of filtration.

Surface fatigue wear

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The formation of surface or subsurface cracks and fatigue crack propagation. It results from cyclic loading of a surface.

Sulfurized oil

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Oil to which sulphur or sulphur compounds have been added.

A common natural constituent of petroleum products. While certain sulphur compounds are commonly used to improve the EP, or load-carrying, properties of an oil, high sulphur content in a petroleum ...