by Albrecht Truter

An liquid particle counter measures the number and size of the particles in a liquid, but why bother to do that ?
This short article will answer that question.

In the case of hydraulic fluids the hydraulic compents has fine tollerances which can be damaged by to
many particles in the fluid.When maintenance are completed it also best practise to flush the system with clean hyraulic fluid and check the fluid is clean after the flush before placing the system back into service. Trend monitoring of hydraulic fluids also serve as an early warning of abnormal wear and possible impending failure in a system.

 

In the case of diesel the trend is to use cleaner diesel to extend to improve the reliability of the fleet. Big industrial sites like mines like to monitor the cleanlines of the diesel they use in the vehicel fleet to prevent unexpected falures due to gross particle contamination in the diesel, and enhance fuel effeciency during day to day operation.

Pamas supply a complete range of particle counters for mobile and lab use for hydraulic oil and diesel .

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