Hydraulic oil plays a role in energy transfer, system lubrication, corrosion prevention, rust prevention, and cooling in hydraulic systems. The residual and uncleaned pollutants in components and systems during processing, assembly, packaging, storage, and transportation, as well as pollutants that enter from the outside during operation, can contaminate hydraulic oil, causing equipment to malfunction. The content of solid particulate matter is one of the important criteria for measuring whether an oil can continue to be used. Particle pollutants can cause rapid wear and performance degradation of hydraulic components, thereby changing the working performance of the hydraulic system, causing action disorders, and even system failures.

Application of offline oil detection

Offline oil analysis is mainly based on taking a small bottle of sample from the equipment lubrication system or hydraulic system for testing. It plays an important role in the lubrication status analysis of key equipment such as large presses, large reducers, high-precision servo hydraulic systems, large gas turbines, and large water turbine units in industries such as automobiles, ports, petrochemicals, metallurgy, oil extraction, transportation, cement, and electricity. For most monitored systems, offline monitoring is fully capable of meeting the needs, but for some critical equipment such as equipment on continuous production lines, equipment that cannot be easily shut down, and large equipment that cannot conduct regular oil monitoring, online monitoring will be a better choice.

Application of Online Oil Monitoring

1. Large equipment on continuous production lines such as steel rolling lines and stamping lines must maintain the normal operation of key equipment in order not to affect the stoppage of the entire production line;

2. Turbine units, including large water turbines in hydropower plants and steam turbines in thermal power plants, can experience significant losses and affect the stability of the power grid in the event of a malfunction and shutdown;

3. The gearboxes of wind turbines in wind farms are numerous in quantity and difficult to sample.

Selection of instruments

For different lubrication systems/hydraulic systems, the indicators that need to be tested are also different. For example, diesel engine lubrication systems emphasize particle concentration, fan gearboxes focus on wear status, and steam turbine units consider both particle and micro water content. It is necessary to select corresponding instrument equipment according to different monitoring objects and monitoring priorities. Honghe Smart Box supports customized monitoring projects and flexible combination of multiple sensors to meet the detection needs of different industries!