The motor-driven centrifuge has been applied for many years on high horsepower, low-speed marine diesels to provide clean, debris-free fuel and to control wear and combustion contaminants in the engine lubricating system. More recent versions, using the pressure of the lube circuit to self-power a high-speed centrifuge turbine, have been widely applied to diesels in heavy-duty trucks, transit buses, electrical gen sets and to construction and mining equipment in North America and Europe.In order to to explore the function and performance of the pressure-powered oil cleaning centrifuge in actual field installations, three methods of qualitative and quantitative assessment of diesel lube oil contaminants were applied and are reported in this paper:


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    Title :

    Diesel Lube Oil Contaminant Size and Composition by Analysis of Solids Collected by Oil Cleaning Centrifuge


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Earthmoving Industry Conference & Exposition ; 1992



    Publication date :

    1992-04-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English