A few years ago, a well-known lubricant and services provider conducted a survey of eight large U.S. Gulf Coast oil refineries relating to their oil consumption, mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) and lube application methods. The refineries’ pump bearing protection practices became the subject of closer scrutiny. These refineries had adopted using pure oil mist lubrication on thousands of pumps. However, although it was assumed that the actual installation details for oil mist technology followed state-of-art …
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