These portable tools are even being used in some oil analysis labs. Each tool uses a small oil sample—measured in drops—and does not generate any waste stream. No chemicals are needed to ...

Each column represents an oil sample from a different date ... Oil analysis can be that hidden tool in our utility belt if we make use of it and implement it to help our fleets.

"We test oil samples for helicopters or ground equipment and we check to see if the oil is contaminated," said Heidi Bodeit, the director of AOAP Lab in Europe. Bodeit compares checking oil ...