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Contents
Introduction .......................................................................3
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Introduction
This guidebook is aimed at engineers, technicians and quality control personnel involved in contamination control.
Its purpose is to make available accepted and widely-used cleanliness specification levels for liquid samples.
The tables in this guide allow users of automatic portable particle counters to see the relationship between raw particle
counts at various sizes and the reporting code numbers of various contamination standards.
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hair
of human
Diameter
table salt
Grain of
Object
70 m
100 m
Size
Typical
Image
Contamination basics
2 m
8 m
25 m
Bacteria
cells
blood
Red
flour
Milled
40 m
ISO 4406:1999
codes (hydraulic
uid contamination)
8 000 000
4 000 000
2 000 000
1 000 000
500 000
250 000
130 000
64 000
32 000
16 000
8 000
4 000
2 000
1 000
500
250
130
64
32
16
8
4
2
1
23
22
21
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
More than
24
ISO code
number
16
32
64
130
250
500
1 000
2 000
4 000
8 000
16 000
32 000
64 000
130 000
250 000
500 000
1 000 000
2 000 000
4 000 000
8 000 000
16 000 000
Up to and including
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Type of system
Low pressure systems with large clearances
Typical cleanliness of new hydraulic oil straight from the manufacturer.
Low pressure heavy industrial systems or applications where
long-life is not critical
General machinery and mobile systems medium pressure,
medium capacity
World Wide Fuel Charter cleanliness standard for diesel fuel delivered
from the filling station nozzle.
High quality reliable systems
General machine requirements
Highly sophisticated systems and hydrostatic transmissions
Performance servo and high pressure long-life systems
e.g. Aircraft machine tools, etc.
Silt sensitive control system with very high reliability
Laboratory or aerospace
Typical components
Ram pumps
Flow control valves
Cylinders
Sensitivity
Low
Average
Gear pumps/motors
Important
Very important
High performance
servo valves
Critical
Critical
Super critical
NOTE: The three figures of the ISO code numbers represent ISO level contamination grades for particles of >4m(c), >6m(c) and >14m(c) respectively.
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Hydraulic
ISO MTD
4(c)
6(c)
14(c)
Fluid
ACFTD
2
5
15
Fuel
ISO MTD
4(c)
6(c)
14(c)
21(c)
38(c)
70(c)
25
50
21(c)
25(c)
30(c)
Industry conventionally reports raw particle counts as per 100ml for hydraulic fluids, and per ml for fuel, though this is not part of any standard.
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1.3
0.64
07
10
08
10
11
2.5
20
12
09
40
80
13
160
14
1 300
18
15
2 500
19
320
5 000
20
16
10 000
21
640
20 000
22
17
More
than
ISO
code
no.
1.3
2.5
10
20
40
80
160
320
640
1300
2 500
5 000
10 000
20 000
40 000
Up to
and
including
Number of particles
per ml
10
Size range
515 m
1525 m
2550 m
50100 m >100 m
00
125
22
250
44
500
89
16
1000
178
32
2000
356
63
11
4000
712
126
22
8000
1425
253
45
16 000
2850
506
90
16
32000
5700
1012
180
32
64000
11400
2025
360
64
128000
22800
4050
720
128
10
256000
45600
8100
1440
256
11
512000
91000
16200
2880
512
12
1024000
182400
32400
5760
1024
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SAE AS4059
rev E table
Note that this standard
is technically identical to
ISO 11218.
MTD
ISO11171 (Calibration or
optical microscope
count particle size based
on projected area
equivalent diameter)
ACFTD
ISO4402 (Calibration or
optical microscope count
particle size based on
longest dimension)
>21m(c)
>25m
D
3
5
10
20
39
76
152
306
612
1 220
2 450
4 900
9 800
19 600
39 200
>38m(c)
>50m
E
1
1
2
4
7
13
26
53
106
212
424
848
1700
3390
6780
>70m(c
>100m
F
0
0
0
1
1
2
4
8
18
32
64
128
256
512
1024
11
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Size range
00
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
510m
8
16
32
63
125
250
500
1000
2000
4000
8000
16000
31500
63000
1025m
4
8
16
32
63
125
250
500
1000
2000
4000
8000
16000
31500
63000
125000
2550m
1
2
3
4
8
12
25
50
100
200
400
800
1600
3150
6300
12500
25000
50000
50100m
0
0
0
1
2
3
4
6
12
25
50
100
200
400
800
1600
3150
6300
125000
100200m
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
4
6
12
25
50
100
200
400
800
1600
3150
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510
2700
4600
9700
1025
670
1340
2550
93
50100
>100
24000
32000
87000
128000
2680
5360
10700
21400
42000
210
380
780
1510
3150
6500
16
28
56
110
225
430
1000
11
21
41
92
13
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18 / 16 / 10
18 / 16 / 11
18 / 16 / 13
19 / 17 / 11
19 / 17 / 14
20 / 18 / 12
20 / 18 / 13
20 / 18 / 15
21 / 19 / 13
21 / 19 / 16
22 / 20 / 13
22 / 20 / 17
23 / 21 / 14
23 / 21 / 18
24 / 22 / 15
25 / 23 / 17
21000
100000
6300
4400
2000
1300
800
400
15000
6300F
4400F
2000
1300F
800F
400F
12
11
10
2
3
4
0
1
SAE
749
ISO/NAS/SAE code
comparison table
14
PPM Conversion
table
Percent contamination vs. PPM
(parts per million)
Percent
PPM
100%
1 000 000
10%
100 000
1%
10 000
0.1%
1 000
0.01%
100
0.001%
10
Volume
1 litre =
1 000 ml
1 PPM =
1 l in 1 litre
Example 1
400 PPM in 1 litre
= 400 l
Example 2
A reading of 250 PPM equates to
a quantity of absorbed water in a
400 ltr. capacity system of 0.1 litre.
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