Engine Lubrication Oil Consumption and Condition Monitoring
AssigneeCaterpillar Energy Solutions GmbH
InventorsDarshit SHAH, Jan-Rudolf SPITZER, Markus FRANK
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Abstract
The present invention pertains to a method of determining a lubrication oil condition of a stationary gas engine comprising the steps of retrieving a lubrication oil temperature information and retrieving a lubrication oil level information from a lubrication oil level sensor, wherein the lubrication oil level sensor is a capacitance sensor, and a step of normalizing a lubrication oil level information over the lubrication oil temperature information.
Claims14
A method of determining a lubrication oil condition of a stationary gas engine, comprising the steps of
- retrieving a lubrication oil temperature information and
- retrieving a lubrication oil level information from a lubrication oil level sensor, wherein the lubrication oil level sensor is a capacitance sensor,
- characterized by the step of normalizing the lubrication oil level information over the lubrication oil temperature information.
Stationary gas engine comprising at least one lubrication oil temperature sensor and at least one lubrication oil level sensor of a capacitance sensor type and a computing device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with data and instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to carry out the method according to any of the previous claims.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.