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Lubrication Management ofRotating Element Bearings
SAIEE RMS Technical Forum
Mario Kuisis/2017-02-21
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Agenda▌ Causes of failure
▌ Typical lubrication issues
▌ Lubrication management options
▌ Taking control
▌ Case study
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Bearing lubrication issues
• Under lubrication
• Over lubrication
• Wrong lubricant
• Contamination
• Overheating
• Aged lubricant
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Lubrication Management
Options
• Sealed bearings – no maintenance
• Manual greasing – fixed time interval, volume managed
• Manual greasing – fixed service interval, volume managed
• Automatic greasing – fixed time interval and volume
• Manual greasing - on demand
• Vibration
• Temperature
• Ultrasound
Naturally occurring ultrasound
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Characteristics of Ultrasound
• Readily travels through gases, solids and liquids
• Obeys the rules of reflection, refraction and diffraction
• Low diffraction in air
• Pronounced directional properties
• Low energy
• Attenuates rapidly
• Produced in great intensity by any friction event
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All bearings produce ultrasound
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Possible causes of high ultrasound
• Worn bearing
• Under lubrication
• Over lubrication
• Degraded lubricant
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In our experience - the most common enemy of bearings in SA
• Too much grease has caused the bearing
to explode. The seal has been pushed out
and the balls have dropped out through
the gap.
• Stopped production for 4 hours
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The solution
Acoustic
lubrication
Monitor ultrasound whilst greasing
Bearing in need of grease
Bearing not needing grease
From under to over lubrication
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How is it done?
• Lubrication adaptors for
use with purpose built
ultrasonic detectors
• Monitor and quantify the
ultrasound whilst greasing
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Acoustic lubrication
Eliminate the
guesswork
• Listen to ultrasound and measure ultrasound dBµV level
• Apply half stroke of grease
• Wait 15 to 30 seconds
• Listen to ultrasound whilst checking the ultrasound dBµV
• If the ultrasound reduces, apply more grease
• As soon as the level of ultrasound goes up, STOP greasing
• If it went up on the first stroke, STOP immediately
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Trend chart – good bearing in need of grease
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Case study
Results of a
successful
acoustic lubrication
management
programme
• Friction monitored by ultrasound level
• Lubricate when ultrasound level exceeds threshold
• Grease volume managed by ultrasound
• Detect lubricant that is contaminated, aged, over heated
and degraded by incompatible mixing
Bearing life
Grease consumption
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