Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Solvency

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Ability of a fluid to dissolve inorganic materials and polymers, which is a function of aromaticity.

Solid

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Any substance having a definite shape which it does not readily relinquish. More generally, any substance in which the force required to produce a deformation depends upon the magnitude of the ...

Sludge

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Insoluble material formed as a result either of deterioration reactions in an oil or of contamination of an oil, or both.

Sloughing off

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The release of contaminant from the upstream side of a philtre element to the upstream side of the philtre enclosure.

Sintered medium

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A metallic or nonmetallic philtre medium processed to cause diffusion bonds at all contacting points.

Single-pass test

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Philtre performance tests in which contaminant which passes through a test philtre is not allowed to recirculate back to the test filter.

Silting

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A failure generally associated with a valve which movements are restricted due to small particles that have wedged in between critical clearances (e.g., the spool and bore. )