Consider closed–loop oil-mist lubrication
06.01.2011
| Ehlert, D., Lubrication Systems Company, Houston, Texas
A growing trend is migrating to this new lubricating system for rotating equipment
Keywords:
[lubricating oil]
[oil-mist lubricants]
[bearing]
[electric motors]
[maintenance]
[rotating equipment]
Oil-mist lubrication systems have been used for many years. Properly applied, they also represent a proven and environmentally clean technology for lubricating rotating equipment in the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). Full-scale oil-mist lubrication for many pumps and motors in the HPI dates back to the mid-1960s. Several US refiners started installing large-scale plantwide oil-mist systems in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Two large US Gulf Coast refineries were among the first to adopt oil mist for their hundreds of pumps and motors; they continue to do so today, almost 50 years later.
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