Shoco Industrial Solutions Laboratory
Shoco’s Industrial Solutions Laboratory, located in Colorado Springs Colorado, is designed to assist customers optimize the life of their equipment through the monitoring of in service fluids. Our lab also provides the certification of ultra clean lubricants that are proven to benefit customers by reducing their maintenance costs and eliminating unpredicted failures. These benefits include lower equipment wear, longer equipment life, and longer lubrication life.
In most cases, to the naked eye oil appears to be a clean clear fluid with a yellowish-green or golden-brownish tint. Since the lower limit of human vision is 40-50 microns, the harmful 1 to 10 micron microgrit is not visible. Shoco’s Industrial Solutions Laboratory specializes in examining oils for cleanliness at the micro level and is the designated certifier for all of Chevron’s ISOCLEAN Certified Lubricants.
Laboratory Instruments & Testing Capabilities
LaserNet Fines (ASTM D7596)
Our LaserNet Fines particle counting instrument assesses machinery and oil health by measuring contamination and wear debris of a lubricant or fuel. During testing, the sample passes through the flow cell, illuminated by a laser, and is captured with a CCD video camera that takes 100 pictures per second to accurately count and classify particles ranging from 4-100 micron in size. The end data is reported as an ISO cleanliness code, the International Standard (ISO 4406) for reporting fluid cleanliness.
Patch Test (ASTM D7670)
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Patch Test (ASTM D7670)
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Viscosity (ASTM D445)
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RDE-AES (ASTM D6595)
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Laboratory Services
In-House Testing and Reporting on New & Used Lubricants:
- LaserNet Fines (Particle Count)
- Patch Test (Microscopic Visual Analysis)
- Viscosity (40°C & 100°C)
- Karl Fischer (Water Content)
- RDE-AES (Elemental Analysis)
- FT-IR
- Foam Testing
- Varnish Potential
- Demulsibility (Water Separability)
In-House Testing and Reporting on Diesel Winter Properties:
- Cloud Point
- Cold Filter Plugging Point
- Pour Point
In-House Testing and Reporting on Diesel Cleanliness:
- LaserNet Fines (Particle Count)
- Patch Test (Microscopic Visual Analysis)
- Karl Fischer (Water Content)