24th International Colloquium Tribology - January 2024 233 How Oil Care Can Reduce Oil and Maintenance Costs Steffen D. Nyman 1 1 C.C.JENSEN & Noria Partner, Svendborg, Denmark 1. Why discuss reduction of oil & maintenance costs? We have known for decades that clean oil will improve system reliability and uptime, as well as prolonging component and oil life in service [1]. This is especially top of mind for owners and operators of critical machinery within power generation, marine, mining and many other industries e.g. automotive, steel and paper etc. With increasing oil and energy prices, component delivery times and pressure from governments, the reduction in maintenance cost as well as CO 2 has never been more important. Alternative ways to create electricity and heating is on everyone’s lips, but very few can grasp how much oil care and a reliable asset can contribute - the potential saving in your company is enormous! 1.1 How the session will address the problem? C.C.JENSEN has been on the journey to become CO 2 neutral since 2008, but since 1953 we have been using oil care to extend in-service-life of oils and machine components inhouse and at our customers [2]. This presentation will inspire the attendees to implement similar best practices to yield huge savings. 1.2 Implementing the best practice in this presentation including oil care will result in: • Lower power and electricity consumption • Reduced oil & maintenance cost • Reduced carbon footprint • Extended oil and machines life • Increased operational reliability and machine uptime • Less production and QSHE issues • Less handling, transportation and storage of oil and machine wear/ spare parts If you want to improve the uptime of machines, it is best done by maintaining the oil clean using a combination of good air breathers, in-line oil filters and offline depth filters, while monitoring the oil properties and cleanliness e.g. particle count acc. to ISO 4406. Particle counters are typically using optical light extinction sensors [3] and detect particles bigger or equal to 4-micron, 6-micron and 14-micron. Testing of particle distribution in used gear oil (illustration below) [4] show that normal abrasive wear results in exponential distributed particles with close to no particles of size 14 mm or above - meaning the number of tiny particles in oil multiplies and cause most harm. Figure 1: Particle distribution after abrasion test. OCM sensor. 1.3 Why is this important for the attendees? The constant pressure to reduce cost of operation, oil & maintenance as well as CO 2 emissions can be quite frustrating if you don’t know where to start or which assets you can address as the “low hanging fruits”, giving the largest savings for each Euro spend. This presentation will inspire and help you understand where the biggest savings can be found. 1.4 What will the attendees learn: - Ideas to reduce CO 2 emissions in your company and production within e.g. electricity, heating, asset management etc. - How oil care will reduce oil & maintenance costs including CO 2 emissions by means of longer oil life, less waste, fewer machine components being replaced due to wear etc. - Cases from Manufacturing Industries, Marine, Mining, Power Generation and Wind Segments will be presented. References [1] R.S. Sayles, P.B. Macpherson, Influence of wear debris on rolling contact fatigue, Rolling contact fatigue testing of bearing steels. A symposium sponsored by ASTM committee A-1 on steel, stainless steel, and related alloys, ASTM STP 771 (1982) 255-274. [2] C.C.JENSEN’s Energy and CO 2 Account, 2008-2021. CO 2 Group and Lars Questgaard. [3] Krogsøe, K.; Henneberg, M.; Eriksen, R.L. Model of a Light Extinction Sensor for Assessing Wear Particle Distribution in a Lubricated Oil System. Sensors 2018, 18, 4091. [4] Henneberg, M. Eriksen, R.L., Tribological test and optical measurements of particles and their distribution as function of wear mode; Oildoc, 2017, January 24-26 th , (Proceedings), Rosenheim Germany. 234 24th International Colloquium Tribology - January 2024 How Oil Care Can Reduce Oil and Maintenance Costs Speaker biography Steffen Nyman earned his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1996 and joined technical sales for three and a half years. Since February 2000 he has been responsible for developing and conducting technical training and documentation for sales, service and technical staff. He is certified ICML Machinery Lubrication Analyst II and Technician II as well as 4-MAT trainer in adult teaching skills. He has worked as Corporate Trainer for C.C.JENSEN since 2004, conducting hundreds of customized seminars in understanding oil maintenance including oil filtration technologies for different industries like manufacturing, steel and paper, as well as marine, mining, power generation and wind. He has been representing Noria Corporation as a partner in Denmark since Dec. 2012. Speaker experience Steffen Nyman has presented in front of more than 100 people several times and has conducted hundreds of training courses/ seminars/ presentations for 10-30 people e.g. Reliable Plant Conference, Machinery Lubrication conference and OilDoc conference in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022 (online) and latest in May 2023. The organizations C.C.JENSEN develops and manufactures high quality oil maintenance systems with specialty in offline filters for wind turbines, steam and gas turbines, marine engines, mining equipment, quenching oil systems and numerous other lubrication and hydraulic applications. C.C.JENSEN has 70-years of experience and is represented in over 40 countries worldwide. CJC filters are well reputed for efficient removal of fine particles, water, varnish and acidity from oil and other special lubricants. Noria Corporation is a training & consulting company with partners worldwide, who conduct certified machinery lubrication maintenance training and consultant work to help companies enable reliability through better lubrication processes and applying best practice.