The Importance of Clean Hydraulic and Lube Fluid is Essential
Maintaining clean hydraulic fluid and lubricating oils is crucial for the efficient and reliable performance of fluid power systems and heavy machinery. Particle contamination can reduce efficiency, equipment damage, and costly system downtime. Therefore, companies invest in filtration systems to ensure the required cleanliness for hydraulic fluids and lube oils, preventing clearance-sized particles from causing component wear and failure. Investing in filtration solutions is essential to avoid unscheduled maintenance and significant financial losses
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Why is clean hydraulic fluid so critical?
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Efficient Lubrication System Performance
The Primary Functions of Hydraulic Filters Are:
- Protect the system components from damaging critical clearance-sized particles, which can cause wear and potential component failure.
- Control the level of cleanliness to attain the required performance, life and reliability of the system
- Allow fluid to pass through at the given flow with the minimum pressure drop (ΔP)
Lube filtration is a crucial part of lubricating system maintenance programs, and high-performance filtration technology is now specified in most lube oil applications. High-performance, long-life filters that maintain consistent performance throughout service life help industrial operations maintain optimal fluid cleanliness to ensure consistent operational efficiency and reduced costs.
The Primary Functions of Lubricating Filters Are:
- Protect the system components from damaging critical clearance-sized particles, i.e., particles that can cause wear and potential component failure.
- Control the level of cleanliness to the specified level to achieve maximum component life.
- Allow fluid to pass through at the given flow with the minimum pressure drop (ΔP).
Lube filtration is a crucial part of lubricating system maintenance programs, and high-performance filtration technology is now specified in most lube oil applications. High-performance, long-life filters that maintain consistent performance throughout service life help industrial operations maintain optimal fluid cleanliness to ensure consistent operational efficiency and reduced costs.
Particulate Filtration for Marine Lube and Hydraulic Systems
To prevent a system failure caused by particulate contaminants making their way into the susceptible components of a hydraulic system, in-line and offline filtration systems incorporating high-efficiency filter technology are employed to maintain the fluid cleanliness level required consistently. This results in improved system reliability reduced unscheduled downtime and maintenance costs and helps ensure product quality for significantly enhanced business performance and operational savings.
Particulate Filters
Athalon™ Filters Housings and Elements
For your most critical hydraulic fluid filtration applications, Pall offers a full range of Athalon return line filter elements and housings. Delivering the ultimate in filter performance, Pall’s Athalon hydraulic and lube filters combine an industry-leading ßx(c)≥2000 (ISO 16889) particle removal rating, stress-resistant filter technology in an anti-static design to provide the greatest overall filter performance and value available in the industry today.
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Athalon Brochure.pdf
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Supralon Replacement Filter Elements
The direct replacement for existing Pall Coralon and Ultipor III filter elements and some alternative makes of filter housing
- 2X better particle removal efficiency compared to ßx(c)≥1000 rated filters
- 10X better efficiency than common ßx(c)≥200 rated filters
- Significantly fewer passes required to reach target cleanliness level.
Anti-static construction
βX(C)≥ 2000
Stress Resistant Technology
Last Chance Filters
Last Chance Filters provide crucial point-of-use protection to critical components in fluid systems. They trap particles like machining chips, burrs, seal material, wear particles, and fluid breakdown products, ensuring that the components downstream are protected.
As a system designer, you should consider using Last Chance Filters in the following conditions:
- Components related to ship operations
- Components downstream from known sources of large particles
- Dead-end components or those not flushed during actuation
- Components with orifice diameters of 1⁄12 in. (2mm) or less
For further support on choosing the right marine hydraulic and lube filtration solutions, please contact our experts below.