Monitoring turbines through turbine oil analysis is well established and popular. All turbines, steam as well as gas, have a huge oil reservoir for lubricating the turbine bearings.
Oil analysis is a highly advantageous tool for gear systems used in both industrial and mobile equipment. Despite being designed to be highly reliable, they bring about disruption and incurred costs when they wear or break due to contamination of the gearbox oil or poor operation.
Transmissions are highly complicated systems for converting and directing power from an engine to a drive train or other end application. Transmission oil analysis is necessary to reduce wear in transmissions.
This article contains information on how cobalt is used within Lithium-ion batteries and how the future looks in terms of using cobalt alternatives.
By Brett Smith
6 Aug 2018
Since its introduction around 4,000 years ago, coal – a naturally occurring combustible solid – has been utilized as a fuel source for heating and cooking and, in more recent times, for the generation of electricity.
All mining operations are temporary, regardless of their size and complexity. Eventually, when all the accessible and valuable materials have been extracted the mine must be closed and the site it is based within must be returned to its original state.
One of the most valuable resources on earth is oil as it is used in homes, cars, and a range of other products.
Gold is mined at about 4,850 meters above sea level at the Veladero Gold Mine owned by the Barrick Gold Corporation. It is located about 374 km from San Juan, Argentina, in the Frontier district which is being intensively prospected. In 2017 it produced about 432,000 ounces of gold.
In this article, we look at how this new digital age will revolutionize the mining industry.
By Liam Critchley
5 Jun 2018
There is an urgent need to reduce the amount of pollutants that are discharged into the environment and adequately cleanup areas where these pollutants have travelled to.
By Benedette Cuffari
1 May 2018