OilExpress 4 XL

Increasing demands for efficiency, productivity, data quality, and profitability pose ongoing challenges for lubricant testing labs, like yours. Whether you need to achieve quick turnaround times, minimize downtime, or maximize lab efficiencies, you can rely on PerkinElmer for a comprehensive set of simple-to-use and proven testing solutions to help you achieve accurate results in record time. Learn more about our solutions.

The OilExpress 4 system adapts to your laboratory’s needs, from dozens to thousands of samples per day. Its modular design makes it possible to scale up your sample throughput or separately utilize the oil dilution capabilities in busy laboratories that are using ICP analysis. The system minimizes your operational costs by reducing instrument downtime, increasing throughput to reduce cost per sample, and offering significant savings from decreased solvent waste.

Increasing demands for efficiency, productivity, data quality, and profitability pose ongoing challenges for lubricant testing laboratories, like yours, performing new lubricant or in-service oil analyses.

Whether you need to achieve quick turnaround times, minimize downtime, or maximize lab efficiencies, you can rely on PerkinElmer as a trusted partner for simple-to-use and reliable testing solutions.

Partnering with leading global standards organizations and hundreds of oil laboratories, we continually address laboratory needs and ever-changing standards while developing new methods and protocols that conform with ASTM^®, regulatory, and customer-defined requirements.

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Need flexible sample preparation for wear metals and particle count analyses? The OilPrep^™ 4 is a dedicated four-tip oil diluter that automatically dilutes oil samples with kerosene (V-Solv^™ ICP solvent), in preparation for wear metals and particle counting/sizing analyses by inductively coupled plasma (ICP-OES) and single particle optical sizing (SPOS), such as with the Avio^® ICP-OES and LPC 500™ Liquid Particle Counter.

Some key benefits include:

• • High throughput – Significantly improves productivity and efficiency versus manual or single-tip systems. Diluting up to 250 samples per hour, one OilPrep 4 oil diluter can prepare approximately 2000 samples in 8 hours.
• • Flexibility – Innovative Varispan^® technology provides automatic computer-controlled variable sample probe spacing for multi-tipped processing of original sample containers.
• • Time Savings – Unlike alternate technologies, PerkinElmer’s Ultrasonic Liquid Level Sensing is not impacted by individual sample viscosities, color, or external lighting.

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Zinc selenide is a very useful material for infrared; sampling optics; since it is transparent over most; of the mid-infrared range; fairly hard and durable; and resistant to water and most chemicals.; Consequently it is widely used for attenuated; total reflectance (ATR) and liquid transmission; cells. Its relatively high refractive index of 2.4 is; useful for ATR; but for transmission measurements can lead to several artifacts; the character and severity of which can vary between cells. This note describes these artifacts and the steps that can be taken to effectively eliminate them; ensuring equivalent results across systems and cells.

PerkinElmer offers a range of solutions for fast and accurate IR analysis of in-service lubricants based on the acclaimed Spectrum Two™ FT-IR system. From single sample analysis to fully automated batch runs with up to 384 samples there is a system to suit all throughput requirements.

FT-IR analysis has become an increasingly important tool for in-service lubricants analysis, and is now widely deployed in a range of environments from high-throughput labs using the OilExpress autosampling system through to smaller field labs and on-site installations using the Spectrum Two In-Service Lubricants FT-IR Analysis System based on the revolutionary Spectrum Two instrument.

Lubricant failure due to oxidation and nitration can be detrimental to machinery’s performance, while contamination by water, fuel or glycol can provide an early warning of mechanical problems before catastrophic damage occurs. Spectrum Two™ from PerkinElmer offers trouble-free analysis of in-service lubricants.

Oil inevitably degrades with use and is exposed to various sources of contamination. The benefits of oil condition monitoring can be further increased by complementing routine measurements at a centralized laboratory with more rapid on-site analysis using a portable analyzer. This article reviews infrared oil condition monitoring and describes the design considerations for an on-site oil analyzer, the In-Service Lubricants FT-IR Analysis System from PerkinElmer.