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The Crucial Role of Proper Lubrication in Special Industries
The lubrication process is commonly understood to enhance performance, but its core purpose lies in safeguarding machines from extreme conditions. Lubricants are pivotal in curbing friction, wear, and overheating while shielding against corrosion and contamination. This vital role spans across various industries like aerospace, marine, food and beverage, pharma, textile, and power generation.
Liquid, semi-solid (grease), and solid (powder) lubricants each serve distinct machine requirements, tackling issues such as wear, corrosion, and temperature management, across a multitude of special industries. Liquid-form lubricants are formulated using high-quality base oil with advanced additives to offer exceptional performance along with complete protection from damage and breakdowns. Most times, these oils are applied to industrial machines through different methods such as drip, splash, force, spray, or mist, etc.
Oil-based lubricants are commonly used in industrial machines and equipment operating under high-speed and high-temperature conditions to prevent these machines from overheating, wear and tear, and corrosion. However, these oil lubricants have some major issues including leakage, degradation, oxidation and foam formation.
Some frequently used solid lubricants include graphite,molybdenum disulfide, boron nitride, fluoro polymers, calcium fluoride, and tungsten disulfide. These lubricants are normally used in machines and equipment that are not compatible with liquid and semi-solid lubricants. In such conditions, solid lubricants are used to reduce friction and minimize wear and tear on industrial machines. They are highly capable of preventing heavy contact and tension between machine components when they slide and roll over.
A solid lubrication program is highly crucial in most, if not all, industrial sectors, especially in machines and equipment operating under extreme temperatures and heavy workload conditions.
