Why gear oil & lube oil filtration is important in construction equipments?
What happens to your lubrication oil & gear oil over time?
- Oil break down & abnormal noise from the gear box. Further degradation of the gear oil will catastrophic failure of the gear box.
- Oil must not froth or aggressively affect gaskets and other non-metal elements. It should also maintain proper consistency and lubricating properties regardless of temperature.
- During the operation of the machine atmospheric dust and wear and tear of metal parts got added as a contamination in the oil.
The contaminated oil results into increase in viscosity which can be a major cause into failure of gear box function.
Advantages of filtering oil
- BAPL Centrifuge Filtration removes the particulate from the gear oil, and thus extends the life of the fluid by 1.5 times.
- Centrifuge removes both fine and gross contamination, which helps in maintaining the oil viscosity.
- The smooth functioning of gear box increases uptime of the machine and reduction into the maintenance downtime.
- For reduction in client capital investment we have created innovative trolley mounted offline filtration centrifuge unit.
Principle of operation for centrifugal oil cleaner:
- The centrifugal oil cleaner uses centrifugal force for separation of dirt from oil.
- The oil contaminated with solid particles is admitted under pressure in the rotor bowl.
- The oil exits the rotor bowl through two nozzles located at the bottom of the centrifuge rotor.
- The exit velocity of the oil gives a reaction force to the centrifuge rotor and the rotor rotates at a very high speed.
- The solid dirt particles in suspension in oil experience a centrifugal force in excess of 2000 times gravity and are thrown radially outwards.
- The solid dirt gets stuck on the rotor bowl wall and the clean oil is drained from the bowl back to the tank.