Elemental Analysis of Industrial Lubricants

Abstract

As the most fundamental test used in oil analysis today, elemental analysis can detect between 15 and 25 different elements that are related to wear metals, contaminant metals and oil additives. In our work we have realized a spectrometric emission analysis for the characterizations of the contamination of the industrial lubricants which are of type iso 100 and iso 32, they are used for the lubrication of the reciprocating and rotary compressors respectively.