How Does Alemite's Mist System Work?

As compressed dry air passes through a venturi at very high speed; oil is introduced into the air stream by siphoning it from a reservoir of the mist system. The resulting atomized oil particles average 1-5 microns. The suspended oil particles in the air resemble smoke and are dry enough to be transported at low pressure and velocity to distant machine elements.

Reclassifiers are used to introduce turbulence in the dry mist flow, causing the oil particles to coalesce and produce larger droplets which wet the interacting surfaces.

Carbon particles disassociate from these oil droplets when they meet the interacting surface leaving a solid carbon layer in the mist system. Due to lower surface tension on the carbon layer than metallic surfaces, oil collects easier. The combination of a liquid lubrication layer and a continuously replenished solid lubrication layer leads to a powerful lubrication technique.

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