Every oil system comes with an in-line filter. Still, every oil gets contaminated, eventually.
By design, in-line filters are a compromise: removing solids, without obstructing the system, while having to deal the entire flow, resisting flow, and pressure pulsations. Physically almost impossible to achieve.
Metal particles are well known for their destructive effect on hydraulic machinery, additionally the combination of metal particles, water and temperature affects the oil molecules, causing chemical reactions and as a result, sludge and varnish is formed. The sludge accounts for the darker color of dirty oil.
Oil contamination is consequently the total sum of solid contaminants, and liquid pollutants which is too much for in-line filters to handle.
Hence... Oil Cleaning or Oil Purification is needed by removing all these contaminants to assure continuous oil cleanliness. That's exactly what TRIPLE R Bypass Oil Cleaners do.
80% of all machinery repair and maintenance related costs are attributed to contaminated system fluids. The main cause is always the same: WEAR induced by contamination through solid particles, sludge, and water.
These 3 contaminants are always the cause of all wear processes:
Erosion
Small particles in high velocity oil flow collide with metal surfaces and edges, breaking off more particles (Sand Blasting Effect).
Abrasion
Hard particles jammed between moving parts destroy surfaces (Abrasive Wear).
Cavitation
Water droplets in the oil evaporate under high pressure, implode and crack particles from the metal surfaces.
Corrosion
Water or chemical contaminants (Sludge or Varnish) in the oil causes rust or chemical reactions which deteriorates the component surfaces.
Oil Degradation
High temperatures, oxidation, and hydrolysis ages the oil. The resinous by-products of the degradation process, called sludge or varnish, deposit on metal surfaces.
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