Oil Analysis I & II
Course Outline
In this comprehensive knowledge-packed seminar, learn all about:
Level II Outline
Lubrication Fundamentals
- Understanding full film, elastohydrodynamic, and boundary lubrication
- Comparing solvent-refined, hydro-treated and hydro-cracked mineral base oils
- Advantages and disadvantages of the five most common synthetic base oil types
- Understanding API's five base oil categories
- Other base oil classification systems
- Overview of the 14 key additives that enhance lubricant performance
- Antioxidant additives and their role in oil life
- Controlling wear with additive chemistry
Detecting and Troubleshooting Machine Wear
- Four primary sources of friction in lubricated machinery
- 10 wear mechanisms that reduce machine life
- The secret to fault detection and analysis
- Why clean oil helps you detect faults earlier
- The importance of controlling water in your lubricants
- Understanding the progression of mechanical wear
- Using analytical ferrography for advanced root cause failure analysis
- Tips for chemical microscopy ? oil analysis forensics
- The advantages and disadvantages of XRF spectrometers for large particle detection
- Using SEM-EDX for root cause failure analysis
- Characterizing particle composition by visual inspection
- LaserNet; automating ferro-graphic analysis
Fluid Properties Analysis
- Differentiating between oxidation and other base oil degradation pathways
- 20 causes and characteristics of lubricant change
- Troubleshooting additive depletion with some common and not-so-common oil analysis tools
- Using FTIR for advanced lubricant chemical analysis
- Determining oil life using RPVOT and remaining useful life tests
- How antioxidants alter oil life
- Troubleshooting air release and foaming problems
- 6 ways to test for varnish in your oil
- Identifying the addition of wrong oil using oil analysis
- What you need to know about thermal stability
- How oil color plays a role in oil life
Using Oil Analysis to Define Lubricant Standards
- Setting up a basic QA program for incoming lubricants
- Defining minimum performance standards for new lubricants using oil analysis
- Conducting lubricant cross compatibility testing
- Using oil analysis viscometric properties to guide and troubleshoot lubricant selection grease analysis
- Obtaining samples for in-service grease analysis
- Identifying possible grease compatibility issues using grease analysis
- Determining oxidation and the remaining useful life of a grease
- Troubleshooting wear problems in grease-lubricated bearings
Designing an Oil Analysis Program
- Using RCM and FMECA to guide your analysis program design
- Designing an oil analysis program to ensure proactive and predictive maintenance success
- Integrating oil analysis with other condition-monitoring technologies
- Ensuring oil analysis quality on-site and off-site
- Selecting machine-specific oil analysis test slates
- Creating effective oil analysis procedures
- How to scope training for the rest of the oil analysis lubrication team
- Best practices for setting up a successful on-site lab
Contamination Control and Proactive Maintenance
- Selling oil analysis to management ? how to write an effective oil analysis proposal
- Using financial data to justify lubrication and oil analysis program costs
- Using statistics to set level limits
- Modifying limits to account for operational changes
- Calculating and using rate-of-change limits
- How to set condition-based oil change limits
- Learning multi-parameter diagnostic techniques
- How to effectively manage oil analysis data
- Using oil analysis to develop lubrication Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Interactive Case Studies Workshop
- Individual and group participation in advanced problem-solving exercises, including designing and implementing an oil analysis program, analyzing data and making decision on continuous improvements
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As soon as full payment is received, you will get all the materials for the courses even before the seminar. This will help you be ready for the intensive pace of the sessions as well as the focused session for group review, class challenges (cases) and open forum to reinforce your knowledge for the Certification Exam*.
*The exam is intended to gauge an individual's technical knowledge of the subject matter. Taking this course does not guarantee a passing grade, which is the main factor for issuance of certification.
