摘要:
Disclosed herein is a lubrication device comprising a solid lubricant disposed between and in contact with a first electrode and a second electrode dimensioned and arranged such that application of an electric potential between the first electrode and the second electrode sufficient to produce an electric arc between the first electrode and the second electrode to produce a plasma in an ambient atmosphere at an ambient pressure which vaporizes at least a portion of the solid lubricant to produce a vapor stream comprising the solid lubricant. Methods to lubricate a surface utilizing the lubrication device in-situ are also disclosed.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method removing the fuel contained in the lubricating oil of an internal-combustion engine comprising an engine block with an air intake circuit for a fuel mixture, a burnt gas exhaust circuit, an oil sump and means for pumping the oil contained in the sump. According to the invention, the method consists in removing, after pumping the oil, the fuel diluted in the oil by heating intermittently the oil for a time ranging from 1/100 second to 10 second, in order to obtain vaporization of the fuel diluted in the oil.
摘要:
A device and method for reconditioning oil or vaporizing volatile fluids from oil of internal combustion engines in order to extend the oil service life is provided. Such a device can include a housing having an internal and external surface which defines an enclosed open chamber which can receive heated engine oil. A coating having a thermal conductivity lower than that of the housing can cover at least a portion of the internal surface. An engine oil inlet, a vapor outlet, and a reconditioned oil outlet may be coupled to the housing. The coating can provide heat retention and other benefits to the device, thereby enhancing the volatile fluids vaporization process and increasing the service life of the device. In addition, the separation of volatile fluids can be affected using either spraying or thin film. The reconditioned oil has a significant reduction in water and fuel content thus allowing for increased service intervals and increased useful oil life.
摘要:
A volumetric lubricant dispensing apparatus for delivering a precise volume of lubricant, such as oil, to a rotating machine element. The delivery mechanism includes a piston and cylinder assembly. A plurality of sensors are utilized to record operating conditions of the machine, element, environment, and lubricant. The apparatus is controlled either manually or with the aid of a controller unit such as a microprocessor. The output from each sensor is inputted into the microprocessor wherein an algorithm computes an responsive output. The responsive output is sent to the piston and cylinder assembly, which maintains an optimum lubricant condition within the reservoir wherein a rotating machine element located. Alternatively, for the purpose of qualitative control, the present invention may be described as a system intended for controlling lubricants, both mineral (natural) and synthetic based by measuring the condition characteristics of the lubricant. Some condition characteristics may include water or moisture content (the content could be any liquid, e.g., solvents like ketones are known to change condition characteristics like viscosity) and viscosity. Viscosity is related to temperature, therefore, temperature correlation to viscosity is helpful to provide relative indications for condition characteristics like lubricant flow.
摘要:
An oil purifier for removing contaminants, particularly volatile contaminants. Oil enters an inlet, passes through a filter, a felt layer, a plurality of capillaries, and then spreads across an evaporation plate to an oil outlet. The oil is heated as it spreads across the evaporation plate, either by an external energy source or by hot engine oil, causing volatile contaminants to evaporate and be discharged out a second outlet. The gas pressure above the evaporation plate is kept substantially reduced below atmospheric pressure in order to minimize both the required evaporator plate size and the temperature of the oil spreading thereover and yet provide the desired evaporation rate of the volatile contaminants.
摘要:
An oil reclamation device comprises a housing, filter, evaporator plate and heating assembly. The evaporator plate includes upwardly projecting evaporation walls defining a plurality of curved vaporizing surfaces laterally displaced radially with respect to each other to form a fluid traveling surface therebetween. The heating assembly includes downwardly projecting heating walls defining a plurality of curved heating surfaces located between the curved vaporizing surfaces. The evaporation walls and the heating walls define a plurality of curved paths along the fluid traveling surface from the longitudinal axis of the housing outwardly along the evaporator plate. The evaporator plate includes passageways extending from the mechanical filtration zone to deliver substantially all of the oil being treated at a centermost portion of the evaporator plate.
摘要:
An apparatus for removing vaporizable impurities from lubricating oil, or the like, including: a housing; an oil inlet fitting adjacent the top of and communicating with the housing, such fitting having a downwardly directed, intermediate inlet port, laterally and downwardly directed side inlet ports on opposite sides of the intermediate port, and an external groove interconnecting the side and intermediate ports; an electrical heating element below the intermediate port and having the form of a conical spiral with its larger end uppermost; and a ball in and supported by the upper end of the conical spiral in a position to have impinge thereon oil discharged by at least the intermediate port. The ball serves to distribute the oil impinging thereon uniformly over the inverted conical spiral. When the oil is cold, the external groove interconnecting the ports conducts virtually all of the oil onto the ball for distribution over the inverted conical spiral heating element. When the oil is hot, only the oil discharged by the intermediate port impinges on the ball for distribution over the heating element, the oil discharged by the side ports impinging on the side wall of the housing for cooling.