A new test method for determining the anti-wear properties of hydraulic fluids
- Univ. of Leeds (United Kingdom). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
- Castrol Technology Centre, Reading (United Kingdom)
Existing pump test procedures for determining the anti-wear properties of hydraulic fluids are expensive to undertake, have a long test duration and require a large quantity of test fluid. This paper describes a project to develop an alternative low cost bench screening procedure of short duration, requiring only a small quantity of test fluid and using simple reproducible test specimens. A high level of correlation is demonstrated between the new test method and existing vane pump test procedures for a range of hydraulic fluids including mineral oils and water-glycol fluids. The new test procedure is highly suited to the hydraulic fluid development process requiring only ten liters of fluid per test and a maximum total test duration of six hours.
- OSTI ID:
- 566672
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-951245-; ISBN 0-8031-2422-8; TRN: IM9805%%242
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ASTM symposium on tribology of hydraulic pump testing, Houston, TX (United States), 4-5 Dec 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Tribology of hydraulic pump testing; Totten, G.E.; Kling, G.H.; Smolenski, D.J. [eds.]; PB: 385 p.; ASTM special technical publication 1310
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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