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Wear Debris

The monitoring of oil-wetted components is often used at the field level to manage the risk associated with the failure of these components. Diagnostic analysis of debris extracted from the oil system can provide an early warning of incipient failure.

Understanding the source and nature of such particulate contaminants is critical for accurate risk assessment. When an ASPEX personal scanning electron microscope with Complex Feature Analysis performs automated microscopic examination, it provides not only distributions of particulate material by size and shape, but also accurate classification by composition.

Detailed images of individual particles are also readily obtained and can be a great aid to source and wear mechanism evaluation. ASPEX FD, the world's first truly portable scanning electron microscope, now brings the power of SEM/EDX technology to locations and environments previously unthinkable.

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