Speaker: The dangers of aeration and how to test for it
From the conference…

While at Automotive Testing Expo, make sure to visit the Open Technology Forum, where Anthony Khoraych, president of Advanced Test & Automation (ATA), will discuss the dangers of aeration in engine components and how ATA has developed better ways to test for it.

Aeration is deadly for engine components, as air contamination in oil can cause thermal degradation to occur – ultimately causing varnish, sludge and carbon insolubles to form. Previously, the only way to test for aeration-induced failures was through hot engine (dyno) testing or in the vehicle. Understanding the aeration rate was therefore a time-consuming and expensive endeavor. Now, however, robust and accurate new methods are available to measure the aeration rate under specific conditions and simulate the aeration rate to induce the failure modes caused by entrained and dissolved air in hydraulic fluids.

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