During transportation, storage, and usage, industrial oils are tend to get mixed with water content and mechanical impurities, and if the contaminated oil is inside a machine, it will impose some negative impacts on the equipment’s performance efficiency, even, in some worst cases, shorten the machine’s service life.   Mechanical impurities in oil will cause

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States of Coexistence Moisture is the second-most-destructive contaminant found in machinery, next to particle contamination. Moisture can exist in oil in the following three states or phases: Dissolved Contrary to what I was taught, oil and water do mix. The volume of water that will dissolve into the oil depends upon the oil’s base stock,

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