Thursday, September 20, 2018

How To Choose Your Aircraft Turbine Oil

By William Morris


Currently you are reading this article right now due to the fact that you probably own an airplane, or are in fact tasked with the job of taking care of one. To make your job easier, you want to practice some preventive maintenance practices, and for this to succeed you need to have a bit more information on critical components in the overall system. One of the critical components in having a healthy and well maintained aircraft is the use of aircraft turbine oil. Your choice of turbine oil will determine will determine the overall health of your engine. If you want to know more about this, then do read on.

Turbine oil for planes alongside routine maintenance, is key to keeping and making your aircraft safe and airworthy. Thus you will only be needing high performance oils for turbine engines which many a dealer will try to sell you. Most of the time they will try to sell you products from either Aero Shell or Mobil. Which are generally the largest manufacturers of these oils. However, do keep in mind lots of brands exist outside of these two as well.

Both car engines and also aircraft or plane engines provide propulsion for the vehicles that they are in. However, they differ in that the former runs on pistons and the latter one runs by way of turbines. In plane engines, a pressurized gas is created through the combustion of jet fuel. As these two engines are significantly different from each other, it goes without saying that they also require different kinds of oil.

Jet fuel is burned at high pressures and speeds, and so the engine also requires the same characteristics in relation to these conditions. You will need an oil that offers resistance to high temperature corrosion, good anti wear properties, as well a good thermal and oxidation properties specifically made for jet engines. Definitely you will not think of using ordinary engine oil for your plane engine.

It is good to make sure that the oil you have an eye on is approved by the proper authorities on the specified commercial usage that you have in mind. As such it will be a great advantage to you if the same oil is approved for military use and applications as well. This latter characteristic is really not that essential, but can give you additional peace of mind and confidence.

Depending on how big or small your budget is, you can also consider original equipment manufacturer oils. These are made and sold by the same manufacturer of the engine that you have. Basically it means using Mitsubishi oils made specific for Mitsubishi engines, and so on and so forth.

It is also look at the price in the long term. If you are in the habit of constant maintenance or if you have more than one plane to maintain, then it is better to buy in bulk or by the drum. Look for sellers that can meet this need and also transportation by them to your place. In addition, this of course assumes that you have the necessary installations and such for long term storage of bulk oil.

In conclusion, this article has shown you some things to mull over when thinking of buying turbine oil for your plane engines. These are basic considerations that you should always take into account in addition to any other thing that you deem important in your final decision.




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