Professional Documents
Culture Documents
by Dave Whitefield life can you expect from cleaning either a 2-part code, or a 3-part code,
Principal Applications Engineer up your oil? as specified by the user. The 2-part
Bently Nevada Corporation • What about other types of code refers to particle counts in the 5
e-mail: dave.whitefield@bently.com
contamination? µm and 15 µm size ranges. A 3-part
• What steps can you take to clean code of 17/14/12 would indicate 640 to
up your oil? 1,300 particles/mL greater than or
equal to 2 µm, 80 to 160 particles/mL
ontaminated oil kills Let’s look at these issues one at a
greater than or equal to 5 µm, and 20 to
machines. Clean oil is one time.
40 particles/mL greater than or equal to
of the most important fac-
How is oil cleanliness quantified? 15 µm. See Table 1 and Figure 1.
tors affecting the service life of the
lubricated components of all ISO 4406 establishes the relationship ISO Code Minimum Maximum
machinery1. In hydraulic systems, clean between particle counts and cleanliness • • •