Industrial Lubrication Fundamentals

What are the Goals?

By the end of this Industrial Lubrication Fundamentals training course, participants should have the knowledge and understanding of the following:

• Understand the need for lubrication and its proper handling
• Comprehend all types of failures associated with friction
• Clearly map the landscape of lubricants, their properties and select appropriate one
• Master various industrial systems and their lubrication needs
• Optimise the lubrication process in a plant, prevent equipment failures and prolonged useful life of existing equipment

Who is this Training Course for?

This Industrial Lubrication Fundamentals training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals, but will greatly benefit:

• Process Plant Operators
• Maintenance and Service Personnel
• Mechanical Engineers & Designers of Machinery
• Process Plant Management and Supervision
• O&G Professionals

Daily Agenda

Day One: Industrial Lubrication – The Need

• Processing plants and needs for lubrication
• Other industries and lubrication needs
• Understanding different lubricant types
• Basic lubricant properties
• Equipment failures due to lubrication issues
• Understanding damage associated with lubrication or lack of lubrication

 Day Two: Tribology Basics

• Tribology – framing the problem
• Movement and how to reduce losses - surfaces and wetting of solid surfaces
• Understanding kinetic and static friction
• Difference between sliding and rolling Friction
• Not only liquid – solid friction and fluid film friction
• Friction Regimes
• Solid friction (Dry friction) and fluid film friction
• Tribology-associated damage mechanisms – surface fatigue, wear, adhesion, abrasion, other

 Day Three: Lubricants

• Lubricants – types, classifications
• Base oils and synthetic base oils
• Additives
• Detergents
• Environmental issues and waste lubricant management
• Application-related lubricants – combustion engines, gears, hydraulics
• Compressor and turbine oils; seal oils
• Lubricating greases; solid lubricants
• Laboratory and field testing of lubricants
• Removal of lubricants

 Day Four: Industrial Lubrication Systems

• Bearings, bearing failures due to lubrication failures
• Pumps and motors
• Hydrostatic transmission and Gear boxes,
• Steam turbines, gas turbines and compressors
• Wet seals
• Valves and valve spools
• Gearboxes and reducers
• Combustion engines
• Hydraulics
• Case studies

 Day Five: Lubrication Optimisation

• Oil storage in process plants
• Management of contamination risks
• Oil handling and transport
• Use of breathers in oil systems
• Understanding potential of savings from proper oil management
• Condition monitoring and optimisation
• Achieving the increase of life of components that are properly handled
• Case studies