HAVING DIRTY OIL IN YOUR MOLDING MACHINES ?
Don’t change your oil, filter it!
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Yes, contaminated hydraulic oil can lead to serious problems, including increased wear on components, overheating, decreased efficiency, and potential machine failure.
Using contaminated hydraulic oil can lead to:
- Poor lubrication
- Increased friction and heat
- Reduced hydraulic system efficiency
- Higher maintenance costs and potential machine breakdowns
Regular maintenance, using quality filters, ensuring proper sealing, and implementing an oil filtration system can help minimize contamination risks.
Dirty oil can lead to:
- Increased Friction: Contaminants create resistance, making the machine work harder.
- Overheating: Poor lubrication can cause components to overheat, risking damage.
- Reduced Efficiency: The machine may not operate at optimal performance levels, affecting productivity.
- Shortened Lifespan: Continued use of dirty oil can accelerate wear and tear on components.
Yes, contaminated hydraulic oil can lead to inconsistent molding conditions, causing defects and impacting the overall quality of the finished products.
While it may be possible temporarily, it’s not advisable. Continuing to use dirty oil can lead to more severe damage and costly repairs.
Using dirty oil can lead to reduced lubrication efficiency, increased friction, overheating, poor product quality, and ultimately, machine breakdowns.
Question:
Why Hydraulic Oil Filtration Is Beneficial? Why Should We Invest In Cleaning Oil?
Foreign particles when enter into systems hydraulic fluid cause damage to our hydraulic systems.
Contamination issues disease hydraulic systems and hence decrease efficiency, increase expensive repairs and failure of systems.
Three fourth of hydraulic system failures are traced back to contamination levels in hydraulic fluid.
So, it makes common sense to prevent contaminants to enter into a system and to proactively remove them using measures and systems such as filtration carts, dedicated bypass systems, breathers, inline filters, etc.
TYPES OF CONTAMINANTS
ABRASIVE OR PARTICULATE CONTAMINANT
These include sand, dirt of metal flakes-leading to cavitation, formation of vapors filled cavities and are serious concerns for pump, valve, motor failures. These have a sandblasting effect in the piping and flow systems, further generating more contaminants.
NON-ABRASIVE CONTAMINANT
Elastomeric seals and chemical by-products are equally damaging –clogged parts, stuck valves are failures generated by them. Likelihood of cavitation increase with presence of non-abrasive contaminants.
MOISTURE CONTAMINANT
The increase in oxidation is tenfold with presence of moisture.
This graph indicates that by increasing filtration ratio from 30 micron to 3 micron component life increase 3-4 times
IDENTIFYING SOURCES OF FLUID CONTAMINATION
The importance to understand the various sources of fluid contamination can help us preventing it.
At the end of the day, contamination can occur almost anywhere. But if you know when and where it’s happening right steps to correct and minimize any contamination can be taken.
- Hydraulic Fluid Manufacturing
- Hydraulic Fluid Production & Storage
- Handling & Transfer
- Operation & Maintenance Of Equipment
BASICS-PREVENTING OIL CONTAMINATION
- Regularly Test & Analyze Hydraulic Fluid
- Remove Particulate Contamination
- Keep Everything Clean
- Properly Store & Handl