Dinner Meeting

"How to Safely Double your Oil Life

through Antioxidant Replenishment"

Fluitec International, Bayonne, NJ

http://www.fluitec.com/

Abstract: Sacrificial antioxidants play a critical role in determining the life and performance of turbine oils. The vast majority of the time when these oils are changed, the base stock is still healthy but the fluid is condemned because of low oxidative stability. Simply replacing the antioxidants in an in-service turbine oil instead of dumping and recharging the system with new fluid can provide significant cost savings, risk reduction and performance benefits. However in order to do this safely, the process is far from simple. This paper reviews how to determine if antioxidant replenishment is suitable and if so, how the life of turbine oil can be doubled.

 

Biography:  Greg has been involved with lubrication contamination control and condition monitoring his entire career. He's a Certified Lubrication Specialist and has held industry leadership roles in several committees, including ASTM's Turbine Oil Analysis and Problem Solving committee and STLE's Power Generation, Conditioning Monitoring and Wind Turbine technical groups. Livingstone has authored more than 50 published papers focused on lubricant management.

You can still attend the talk and dinner if there are enough meals ready. Otherwise you can eat at the restaurant at your expense and re-join us for the talk.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016:

 

Tour and lunch at Howard Marten Fluid Technologies Inc., Pickering, ON. See their facilities in Pickering and the lubrication products. For info see http://www.howardmarten.ca/. Likely a midday start with registration details to follow.

 

Monday, April 11, 2016:

 "Future Trends in Tribology and Lubrication Engineering" and an update on STLE. To be given by Martin Webster (PhD), P rogram Leader at ExxonMobil's Corporate Strategic Research Laboratory in Clinton, New Jersey and current STLE President. Note the Monday.

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