Oil Condition Monitoring of HEMM Gear Oil Using Atomic Emission Spectroscopy

Oil condition monitoring is considered to be one of the most important predictive maintenance tools. Since past few decades researchers have been doing oil condition monitoring for predicting the condition of lubricant as well as lubrication envelop. So far many of them have performed Atomic Emission Spectroscopy analysis for predicting the engine condition. But unfortunately till date only a few have been attempted the same for predicting the condition of gears by analyzing gear oil. In this work, gear oil analysis of heavy earth moving machines has been done with the help of Atomic Emission Spectroscopy analysis. Used gear oil has been collected at five different hours for analysis. From the analysis it has been seen that the gear oil analysis have predicted the health of gear oil as well as health of the gear properly.