Particle & Wear Analysis

Standard Test Method for Measurement of Load-Carrying Capacity of Lubricating Grease (Timken Method)

Standard Test Method for Measurement of Extreme-Pressure Properties of Lubricating Grease (Four-Ball Method)

Standard Test Method for Measurement of Extreme-Pressure Properties of Lubricating Fluids (Four-Ball Method)

Standard Test Method for Pentane Insolubles by Membrane Filtration

Standard Test Method for Wear Preventive Characteristics of Lubricating Fluid (Four-Ball Method)

Standard Terminology Relating to Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants

Standard Specification for Mineral and Synthetic Lubricating Oil Used in Steam or Gas Turbines

Standard Practice for In-Service Monitoring of Mineral Turbine Oils for Steam, Gas, and Combined Cycle Turbines

ASTM practice for in-service monitoring of mineral turbine oils in steam, gas, and combined-cycle power-generation turbines.

Standard Test Method for Insoluble Contamination of Hydraulic Fluids by Gravimetric Analysis

Standard Test Method for Measurement of Lubricity of Aviation Turbine Fuels by the Ball-on-Cylinder Lubricity Evaluator (BOCLE)

Standard Test Method for Multielement Determination of Used and Unused Lubricating Oils and Base Oils by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES)

Standard Test Method for Measuring Friction and Wear Properties of Lubricating Grease Using a High-Frequency, Linear-Oscillation (SRV) Test Machine

Standard Practice for In-Service Monitoring of Lubricating Oil for Auxiliary Power Plant Equipment

ASTM practice for in-service monitoring of lubricating oils in auxiliary, non-turbine power-plant equipment.

Standard Test Method for Measuring Friction and Wear Properties of Extreme Pressure (EP) Lubricating Oils Using SRV Test Machine

Standard Test Method for Determination of Wear Metals and Contaminants in Used Lubricating Oils or Used Hydraulic Fluids by Rotating Disc Electrode Atomic Emission Spectrometry

Standard Test Method for Particle Count in Mineral Insulating Oil Using Automatic Optical Particle Counters

Standard Test Method for Indicating Wear Characteristics of Non-Petroleum and Petroleum Hydraulic Fluids in a Constant Volume Vane Pump

Standard Test Method for Determination of Elements in Insulating Oils by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES)

Standard Practice for Optimization, Sample Handling, Calibration, and Validation of X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry Methods for Elemental Analysis of Petroleum Products and Lubricants

Standard Test Method for Automatic Particle Counting of Lubricating and Hydraulic Fluids Using Dilution Techniques to Eliminate the Contribution of Water and Interfering Soft Particles by Light Extinction

Standard Guide for Practical Lubricant Condition Data Trend Analysis

Standard Practice for Processing In-service Fluid Samples for Particulate Contamination Analysis Using Membrane Filters

Standard Guide for Microscopic Characterization of Particles from In-Service Lubricants

Standard Guide for Statistically Evaluating Measurand Alarm Limits when Using Oil Analysis to Monitor Equipment and Oil for Fitness and Contamination

Standard Practice for Determining the Wear Volume on Standard Test Pieces Used by High-Frequency, Linear-Oscillation (SRV) Test Machine

Standard Test Method for Measurement of Lubricant Generated Insoluble Color Bodies in In-Service Turbine Oils using Membrane Patch Colorimetry

Standard Guide for Applying Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) to In-Service Lubricant Testing

Standard Test Method for Ferrous Debris Quantification

Standard Test Method for Determination of Wear Metals and Contamination Elements in Used Industrial Oils by Sweeping Flat Electrode Atomic Emission Spectrometry

Standard Test Method for Insolubles in Used Lubricating Oils

Standard Test Methods for Microscopical Sizing and Counting Particles from Aerospace Fluids on Membrane Filters

Life Management of Power Transformers

Guide for Life Management of Transformers

Effect of Particles on Transformer Dielectric Strength

Remaining Life Management of Existing AC Underground Lines

Condition Assessment for Fluid-Filled Insulation in AC Cables

Fluids for Electrotechnical Applications — Mineral Insulating Oils

Specification for unused mineral insulating oils. Reference baseline for new-oil and post-treatment acceptance testing.

Mineral insulating oils in electrical equipment — Supervision and maintenance guidance

Categorises in-service mineral oil quality by colour, water, IFT, BDV, acidity and DDF. Drives our condition-assessment thresholds and trending reports.

Insulating liquids - Methods for counting and sizing particles

Natural Esters — Guidelines for Maintenance and Use in Electrical Equipment

Maintenance and supervision guidance for natural ester insulating liquids in sealed transformers and electrical equipment.

Hydraulic Fluid Power — Calibration of Automatic Particle Counters

How automatic particle counters for liquids are calibrated so cleanliness results are comparable between instruments and laboratories.

Guidance for in-servicing of lubricating oils for steam, gas and combined cycle turbines

Hydraulic Fluid Power — Determination of Particulate Contamination (Light Extinction)

ISO method for determining hydraulic-fluid cleanliness by automatic particle counting using the light-extinction principle.

Lubricants, industrial oils and related products (class L) — Family H (Hydraulic systems) — Specifications for hydraulic fluids in categories HFAE, HFAS, HFB, HFC, HFDR and HFDU

Petroleum Products — Determination of Electrical Conductivity

Hydraulic fluid power — Particulate contamination analysis — Extraction of fluid samples from lines of an operating system

How to draw a representative fluid sample from an operating hydraulic system so the particle count reflects the fluid actually in service.

Hydraulic Fluid Power — Method for Coding Level of Contamination by Solid Particles

Three-number cleanliness code at 4 µm(c) / 6 µm(c) / 14 µm(c) from automatic particle counter or PCM data. Implemented in the cleanliness-code classifier.

Hydraulic Fluid Power — Determination of Particulate Contamination by Optical Microscope

ISO method for determining particulate contamination in a hydraulic fluid sample by counting particles on a membrane filter under an optical microscope.

Lubricants — Family T (Turbines) — Specification for Turbine Bearing Oils