Practical oil analysis for impractical scenarios

摘要

Hybrid sampling techniques allow you to provide first-rate service in even the most challenging applications. In November we presented a graphic illustration of suggested relationships and interaction between online, onsite and offsite lube-testing techniques. The composite usage of these techniques was defined as continuous oil analysis. While this is a very desirable, perhaps even ideal, monitoring concept, it isn't always practical to employ all three types of monitoring techniques to good effect. Remote, hard-to-access installations often pose sampling problems. This month we review two specific component and application examples and pose reasonable analytical schemes using a hybrid approach.