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Wear Debris Coacentration Measurement by Laser Beam Attenuation

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  • 강기호 (한국과학기술연구원 응용전자연구실) ;
  • 손정영 (한국과학기술연구원 응용전자연구실) ;
  • 전형욱 (한국과학기술연구원 응용전자연구실) ;
  • 윤의성 (한국과학기술연구원 Tribology연구실) ;
  • 안효석 (한국과학기술연구원 Tribology연구실)
  • Published : 1990.10.01

Abstract

The size and concentration of wear debris in lubricating oil often reveal the operating condition of the rotating machinery. To evaluate the possible application of light attenuation measurement for the estimation of wear debris concentration in the lubricating oil, the light transmittance through the lubricating oil cell contaminated with various concentrations of diatomire particles was measured, the attenuation coefficient was estimated from the transmittance measurement and the coefficients were compared with those obtained from the scattering theory. The comparision showed good agreements between them. It is also noted that the experimentally determined attenuation coefficient showed almost linear relation with particle weight coucentrations for the concentrations within the range of 2000 ppm. For the case of 0 ppm weight concentration of diatomire particles in the lubricating oil cell, the thickness of the cell required to give $100 \muW$ light attenuation is 7.75 mm. This result indicates that the light attenuation method will be one of the possible candidates of machine failure diagnostic sensors for the estimation of wear debris concentration in the lubricating oil.

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