An Evaporation Model for Base Oil from Grease-Lubricated Rolling Bearings including Breathing

Pramod Shetty; Robert Jan Meijer; Piet M. Lugt

doi:10.1080/10402004.2021.1943088

An Evaporation Model for Base Oil from Grease-Lubricated Rolling Bearings including Breathing

Pramod Shetty^*, Robert Jan Meijer, Piet M. Lugt

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Surface Technology and Tribology

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Abstract

The film thickness decay of grease-lubricated bearings is determined by a loss of lubricant from the bearing. One of these loss mechanisms is base oil evaporation. In this article, a model is presented for evaporation where the volatiles leave the bearing by breathing. The model is applied to a typical drive cycle where the temperature is varied in time. The impact of the volatility of base oils and quality of sealing on the evaporation losses can be quantified with this model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	891-902
Number of pages	12
Journal	Tribology transactions
Volume	64
Issue number	5
Early online date	4 Aug 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10402004.2021.1943088
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

bearings
Evaporation
grease
oil loss
vapor pressure
UT-Hybrid-D

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An Evaporation Model for Base Oil from Grease-Lubricated Rolling Bearings including Breathing

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