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Engineering and technology
- Tribology
The requested equipment is a mobile smart lubrication unit to control and condition the supply of liquid lubricants. This equipment will allow to finalize the large-scale bearing test rig currently under development at Soete Laboratory as well as upgrading of existing bearing and gear test rigs. The lubrication unit will allow to: 1. Accurate and reliable control of lubricant supply conditions to the test component, i.e. control of lubricant temperature, mass flow rate, pressure, and oil cleanliness, for different lubricant types with different ISO-VG grades. 2. Smart online monitoring of the condition of the lubricant returning from the test component. This involves monitoring of wear debris within the lubricant as well as the online measurement of thermomechanical, electrical, and potentially chemical properties of the lubricant itself. Different types of liquid lubricants are in scope, for example, mineral oils, synthetic oils, and bio-sustainable oils.