Optimized equipment lubrication : conventional lube, oil mist technology, and full standby protection / Heinz P. Bloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloch, Heinz P., 1933- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lubrication and lubricants.

Machinery--Maintenance and repair.

Machinery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXV, 230 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book describes the methods and procedures to optimally applying lubricant to all kinds of general purpose machines. These include process pumps, electric motors and other equipment incorporating rolling element bearing where traditional methods are usually very much out of step with best available practices. Failure analysis, reliability strategies, remedial steps or desirable substitute approaches are also explained.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of illustrations

Introduction

PART A: Bearings and optimally applying lubricant

Examining rolling element bearings and traditional lubrication

Chapter 1 Making the case for upgrading

Chapter 2 Fundamentals of rolling element bearings and lubricant application

Chapter 3 General applicability ranges for oils and greases

Chapter 4 Grease lubrication

Chapter 5 Examining reliability-compromised process pumps

Part B: Fundamentals of oil mist technology

How equipment outdoor preservation later becomes full standby protection

Chapter 6 Oil mist technology and its role in optimally protecting standby (standstill) equipment

Chapter 7 Oil mist history and reliability experience

Part C: Full equipment standstill/standby protection

Chapter 8 Outdoor equipment storage and preservation yards

Chapter 9 Storage protection use often followed by permanent installation

Chapter 10 Why storage preservation as an afterthought will fail

Chapter 11 CAPEX for best available technology

Chapter 12 Can field trials be bypassed?

Chapter 13 Vapor-related and old-style conventional storage protection methods

Chapter 14 Machine-specific storage preservation steps

Chapter 15 Strategy for short-term equipment storage preservation

Chapter 16 Preparing stored equipment for re-commissioning (re-start after long periods of preservation)

Chapter 17 Summary and conclusions

Appendix I: Damage terms, damage prevention, and the corrosion mechanism

Appendix II: A new development: “ADIOS”

Appendix III: Jobsite receiving and protection

References

Index

About the author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5231-4781-4

3-11-074944-0