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How to choose the correct air compressor oil

Apr 10, 2022

Air compressors are widely used production equipment in all walks of life, and are also high energy consumption equipment. As a widely used power source in the industrial field, compressed air accounts for 10% to 35% of the total energy consumption in industrial production. 96% of the energy consumption of the compressed air system is the power consumption of industrial compressors, and the annual power consumption of industrial compressors in my country accounts for more than 6% of the national total power consumption. The operating cost of an air compressor consists of procurement cost, maintenance cost and energy operating cost. According to the whole life cycle evaluation theory, the procurement cost only accounts for about 10%, while the energy cost is as high as 77%.

If the air compressor is compared to a person, then the air compressor oil is the blood of the air compressor. If the blood quality of a person is not good, it will affect the whole body quality. It's like a good air compressor chooses poor air compressor oil, and as a result, it will sinter in the machine to produce sol soon, causing the machine head to get stuck and the machine to not work. As a result, the operator exploded and directly burned the nose of the machine. At this time, it was too late for the "exchange", and it was only necessary to replace the machine with a new one. Therefore, the choice of air compressor oil is directly related to the service and life of the machine.

As the usage rate of compressor lubricating oil is getting higher and higher, the frequency of its failures is also higher and higher. Among them, the oxidation of air compressor oil is one of the compressor failures that are easy to identify. Therefore, in order to improve the level of equipment management, prevent dust and impurities from entering the air compressor, reduce the wear of parts and components, and prevent the oxidation of lubricating oil, thereby reducing the cost, the power put forward the concept of "modern equipment lubrication", and refined the oil selection, Specific requirements for storage and monitoring.

"Optimal energy-saving lubrication" is a mode of scientific management of equipment lubrication, which is of great significance to the improvement of enterprise equipment management level. It includes the whole life cycle from oil selection to oil replacement and waste oil treatment, involving five main aspects: oil selection, pollution control, oil monitoring, oil purification, and oil replacement; it refers to the The organic combination of technical level and organizational level forms a scientific, practical and operable equipment lubrication management system.

The implementation of the "optimal energy-saving lubrication" management mode is to change the current problems in the management of standby lubrication: use scientific oil selection methods to replace the existing experience oil selection methods: strengthen pollution control to form a good lubricating oil working environment ; Adopt a standardized oil monitoring method to change the original random and post-event oil detection status; strengthen the purification and maintenance of the oil in use to delay the deterioration of the oil; replace the regular oil change with the status oil change.

The purpose of "optimal energy-saving lubrication" management is to improve equipment efficiency, avoid abnormal shutdowns, reduce equipment failures, reduce maintenance intensity, extend oil change intervals, improve resource utilization, reduce environmental pollution, and ultimately improve the overall benefit of the enterprise.


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