Abstract: An assembly, as disclosed herein, is usable or operable to facilitate the separation and removal of water from an oil of an oil supply. The assembly, in an embodiment, includes a housing defining an inner space. The housing enables a flow from an oil supply to an oil inlet of the housing. The assembly also includes an inlet pump that enables flow from the oil supply to the oil inlet. The housing's inner space is configured so that the oil and foam formed on the oil's surface and are released to an oil outlet of the housing. The housing is configured to output gas from the inner space of the housing, thereby removing water from oil.

Abstract: An oil filter for an oil filtration system. The filter is configured for insertion into an oil filtration unit. The filter comprises a central opening extending along a central axis of the filter, at least one second physical structure having a second cross sectional shape and a predefined longitudinal length in relation to the central axis of the filter, and an inner periphery of the second physical structure being arranged to mate with the outer periphery of the first physical structure allowing the filter to reach its correct insertion position in the oil filtration unit by the second physical structure at least partly surrounding the first physical structure. The end surface of the filter relative to the central axis of the filter comprises the second physical structure, and the second physical structure comprises a material configured to serve as a filtering material of the filter.

Abstract: Oil filtration unit for removal of contaminants from oil including a housing with an inlet to receive contaminated oil from surroundings and release oil to an inner opening at a first pressure, an outlet adapted to release filtered oil to surroundings, and an oil filter for filtering oil in the inner opening of the housing. The oil filter includes an inlet with an outer surface, an inner volume to receive filtered oil at a second pressure lower than the first pressure, and an outlet inside the housing providing fluid/liquid communication between the inner volume and the housing outlet. The filter outlet includes a hydraulic resistance providing a fluid/liquid flow restriction between the inner volume and the housing outlet to increase the second pressure inside the inner filter volume and release the oil from the inner filter volume to the housing outlet at a third pressure lower than the second pressure.

Abstract: A Method for cleaning degraded oil comprising oil-soluble degradation products and a system for implementing the method are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving an inlet flow (1, 1a, 1b) of degraded oil, precipitating oil-soluble degradation products from the degraded oil by cooling the degraded oil, passing the cooled degraded oil as a filtration flow (3, 3a, 3b) through a filter (104, 204, 304) so as to retain the precipitated degradation products in the filter, and discharging an outlet flow (2, 2a, 2b) of cleaned oil.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for removing water from oil from an oil supply, where the system comprises a housing comprising an inner opening, an oil inlet tube connecting the oil supply and an oil inlet of the housing, where the oil inlet tube comprises an inlet pump adapted to provide a flow of oil in a direction from said oil supply to said oil inlet, an oil outlet tube connecting an oil outlet of the housing and the oil supply, where the oil outlet tube comprises an outlet pump adapted to provide a flow of oil in a direction from said oil outlet to said oil supply, an air inlet tube providing a gas connection between an air supply unit and an air inlet of the housing, and an air outlet tube providing a gas connection between an air outlet of the housing and the air supply unit, where said outlet pump is adapted as to provide a flow at a higher pumping flow rate than the pumping flow rate provided by said inlet pump.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensing unit and method for monitoring the condition of a liquid, the sensing unit comprising at least one sensor and an evaluation unit. The sensing unit is adapted to measure two or more physical parameters of the liquid by use of at least one sensor, where the parameters relate to at least liquid degradation or wear debris particle generation. The at least one sensor is adapted to provide at least two signals, each signal providing its values in a fashion suitable for developing a mean value and a non-zero variance or a variance different from zero over a course of at least two measurements. The evaluation unit is adapted to correlate the measured signals, and to evaluate the condition of the liquid by comparing the measured at least two parameters.

Abstract: According to the invention, a system for separating gas from a liquid is proposed. The system comprises a pressure chamber, said pressure chamber comprising an inlet through which liquid is pumped into said chamber, and wherein said pressure chamber further comprises a first liquid outlet connected to an upper part of said pressure chamber comprising a first valve element and a second liquid outlet connected to a lower part of said pressure chamber comprising a second valve element. Said first and second valve elements are adapted to control the pressure inside said pressure chamber, whereby, while under pressure, a subpart of the liquid inside said pressure flows out of the first and second liquid outlets, respectively, and wherein a main part of the gas content is in the subpart flowing through the first liquid outlet. Thereby, liquid having a certain gas content will be separated into two subparts in a fast and easy way.

Abstract: A device for processing of a liquid that includes a device-input for receiving the liquid to be processed at an input-pressure, a device-output for returning the processed liquid at an output-pressure, and a process chamber having a chamber-inlet and a chamber-outlet, and a feed-line for connecting the chamber-inlet to the device-input. The feed-line includes a multi-stage pump for increasing the pressure of the liquid from the input-pressure to a feed-pressure at the chamber-inlet, a discharge-line for connecting the chamber-outlet to the device-output which discharge-line includes back-pressure means adapted to maintain a discharge-pressure at the chamber-outlet upstream of the back-pressure means at an excess-pressure above the output-pressure, and to reduce the pressure of the liquid from the discharge-pressure to the output-pressure downstream of the back-pressure means. The pump in the feed-line is a first stage of a multiple-stage gear pump.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for liquid condition assessment in a liquid lubrication system for a work system operable in at least two different modes, the method comprising measuring monitored liquid condition data, determining a current operating mode of the work system, then based on the current operating mode, selecting a corresponding model, modeling corresponding simulated liquid condition data based on the model, assessing the liquid condition by comparing the monitored liquid condition data with the simulated liquid condition data, and providing a normally distributed data set for the liquid condition assessment.

Abstract: A device for processing of a liquid that includes a device-input for receiving the liquid to be processed at an input-pressure, a device-output for returning the processed liquid at an output-pressure, a process chamber having a chamber-inlet and a chamber-outlet with the chamber-inlet being connected to the device-input via a feed-line, and the chamber-outlet being connected to the device-output via a discharge-line. The feed-line includes a pump for increasing the pressure of the liquid from the input-pressure to a feed-pressure at the chamber-inlet, and the discharge-line includes a back-pressure mechanism adapted to maintain a discharge-pressure at the chamber-outlet upstream of the back-pressure mechanism at an excess-pressure above the output-pressure, and to reduce the pressure of the liquid from the discharge-pressure to the output-pressure downstream of the back-pressure mechanism. The pump in the feed-line is a first stage of a multiple-stage gear pump.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil filtration system for purifying oil present in a reservoir, the system comprising a system inlet for receiving an inlet flow of contaminated oil from said reservoir, a system outlet for releasing an outlet flow of purified oil to said reservoir, a vacuum housing which is in fluid communication with the system inlet and the system outlet, where the vacuum housing comprises an oil filter arranged in-side said housing, which oil filter is adapted to receive the contaminated oil and to release filtered oil, a first pumping unit which is arranged upstream of the vacuum housing, where the first pumping unit is adapted to provide a flow of contaminated oil in a direction from the system inlet to an inlet of the vacuum housing at a fixed pumping flow rate, a second pumping unit which is arranged downstream of the vacuum housing, where the second pumping unit is adapted to provide a flow of purified oil in a direction from an outlet of the vacuum housing to the system outlet at

Abstract: The present relates to an oil filtration system (1) comprising an oil filtration unit (2), an oil filter (13) having a central opening (15) extending along a central axis (B) of the oil filter (13), the oil filtration unit (2) being provided with at least one first physical structure (18,18?,18?) having a first cross-sectional shape and a predefined longitudinal length (x) in relation to the central axis (A) of the oil filtration unit (2), the oil filter (13) being provided with at least one second physical structure (23,23?,23?) having a second cross sectional shape and a predefined longitudinal length (y) in relation to the central axis (B) of the oil filter (13) and an inner or outer periphery of the second physical structure (23,23?,23?) being arranged to mate with the outer or inner periphery of the first physical structure (18,18?,18?) allowing the oil filter (13) to reach its correct insertion position in the oil filtration unit (2), where at least one of the end surfaces (28,29,31) of the oil filter (

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil filtration unit comprising a housing, which comprises a housing inlet adapted to receive contaminated oil from the surroundings and to release the contaminated oil to an inner opening of the housing, and a housing outlet adapted to release filtered oil to the surroundings, where the inner opening of the housing is defined by an inner bottom surface, an inner top surface, and at least one inner side surface and comprises an oil filter for filtering the contaminated oil, said oil filter being arranged inside the inner opening of the housing, where said oil filter comprises a filter inlet defined by an outer surface of the oil filter, an inner filter volume adapted to receive filtered oil, and a filter outlet inside said housing providing fluid/liquid communication between the inner filter volume and the housing outlet in order to release the filtered oil from the inner filter volume, and where said oil filter further comprises a top and a bottom end surface relative to th

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil filtration system for off-line filtering of contaminated oil from diesel machinery (1), the oil filtration system comprising a system inlet (4) for receiving an inlet flow of contaminated oil from the diesel machinery (1), a system outlet (5) for releasing an outlet flow of filtered oil to the diesel machinery (1), an oil filtration unit which is in fluid communication with the system inlet (4) and the system outlet (5), the oil filtration unit comprising an oil filter (6) which is adapted to receive the contaminated oil and to release the filtered oil, a pumping unit (7) which is arranged upstream of the oil filtration unit, the pumping unit (7) being adapted to provide a flow of contaminated oil in a direction from the system inlet (4) to the oil filtration unit, a temperature sensor (13) for measuring an oil temperature, the temperature sensor (13) comprising a signal transmitter adapted to transmit a first electrical signal reflecting the measured oil temperature, a

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensing unit for monitoring the condition of a liquid, the sensing unit comprising at least one sensor and an evaluation unit. The sensing unit is adapted to measure two or more parameters of the liquid by use of at least one sensor, where the parameters relate to at least liquid degradation or wear debris particle generation. The at least one sensor is adapted to provide at least two signals, each signal providing its values in a fashion suitable for developing a mean value and a variance different from zero over a course of at least two measurements. The evaluation unit is adapted to correlate the measured signals, and to evaluate the condition of the liquid by comparing the measured at least two parameters. Thereby, a reliable monitoring system giving continual feed-back on the performance of the lubricant and the machine in an auto-correlated manner is obtained, thus allowing continual adjustments to improve uptime and machine life.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for liquid condition assessment in a liquid lubrication system for a work system operable in at least two different modes, the method comprising measuring monitored liquid condition data, determining a current operating modes of the work system, then based on the current operating modes selecting a corresponding model, modeling corresponding simulated liquid condition data based on the model, assessing the liquid condition by comparing the monitored liquid condition data with the simulated liquid condition data thereby providing a significantly normal distributed data set for the liquid condition assessment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil filtration system for off-line filtering of contaminated oil from diesel machinery (1), the oil filtration system comprising a system inlet (4) for receiving an inlet flow of contaminated oil from the diesel machinery (1), a system outlet (5) for releasing an outlet flow of filtered oil to the diesel machinery (1), an oil filtration unit which is in fluid communication with the system inlet (4) and the system outlet (5), the oil filtration unit comprising an oil filter (6) which is adapted to receive the contaminated oil and to release the filtered oil, a pumping unit (7) which is arranged upstream of the oil filtration unit, the pumping unit (7) being adapted to provide a flow of contaminated oil in a direction from the system inlet (4) to the oil filtration unit, a temperature sensor (13) for measuring an oil temperature, the temperature sensor (13) comprising a signal transmitter adapted to transmit a first electrical signal reflecting the measured oil temperature, a

Abstract: A method and device for removal of solid contaminants from an air-containing, contaminated oil by leading the oil to the inlet of a filter separating the contaminated oil in a solid phase, which is retained by the filter, and a liquid phase, which passes the filter and leaves as a filtrate through the outlet of the filter. An increased pressure is added on the filtrate outlet. The filtration is more efficient as disturbing air bubbles are avoided.

Abstract: The present relates to an oil filtration system (1) comprising an oil filtration unit (2), an oil filter (13) having a central opening (15) extending along a central axis (B) of the oil filter (13), the oil filtration unit (2) being provided with at least one first physical structure (18,18?,18?) having a first cross-sectional shape and a predefined longitudinal length (x) in relation to the central axis (A) of the oil filtration unit (2), the oil filter (13) being provided with at least one second physical structure (23,23?,23?) having a second cross sectional shape and a predefined longitudinal length (y) in relation to the central axis (B) of the oil filter (13) and an inner or outer periphery of the second physical structure (23,23?,23?) being arranged to mate with the outer or inner periphery of the first physical structure (18,18?,18?) allowing the oil filter (13) to reach its correct insertion position in the oil filtration unit (2), where at least one of the end surfaces (28,29,31) of the oil filter (

Abstract: A device (200) for processing of a liquid comprises a device-input (202) for receiving the liquid to be processed at an input-pressure (p1), a device-output (216) for returning the processed liquid at an output-pressure (p4), a process chamber, and vacuum generating means communicating with a gas filled portion of the process chamber via a vacuum port for reducing the pressure therein to a vacuum-pressure. The process chamber further has a chamber-inlet (208) and a chamber-outlet (210), the chamber-inlet (208) being connected to the device-input (202) via a feed-line (203, 207), and the chamber-outlet (210) being connected to the device-output (216) via a discharge-line (211, 215).