Lubricant and additive formulation

a technology of additives and lubricants, applied in the field of additives, can solve the problems of unpopular use of graphite in lubricants for recirculating systems, inability to realize the potential to use graphite as a heat transfer improving material in this oil, and inability to improve the thermal conductivity of fluid formulations specific to specific applications. , to achieve the effect of enhancing the performance of the engine, reducing engine wear, and improving the lubricating properties of the engin

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-06-09
ASHLAND LICENSING & INTPROP LLC
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[0012] The present invention comprises various formulations of lubricant additive concentrates for addition to conventional engine oil or as motor oil lubricants incorporating said additives ...

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Certain of these materials, however, must be used judiciously in certain applications due to their property of accelerating corrosion of metal parts, such as bearings.
Often designers will desire a fluid with higher thermal conductivity than the conventional oil, but are restricted to oil due to the many other parameters the fluid must meet.
While there have been various patents filed on lubricants containing graphite, e.g. U.S. Pat. No. 6,169,059, there are none which specifically rely on graphite to improve the thermal conductivity of the fluid formulated for specific applications.
Furthermore, there are none which teach specifically the use of nanometer-sized graphite with mean particle size much significant...

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The Invention of Example 1 Under Standard Tests

[0153] When one of the one quart formulations prepared in Example 1 is tested under conventional lubricant test procedures, results are as given in Tables 1 and 2, and FIGS. 1-5. Note that the Shell four-ball wear test ASTM D4172 of FIG. 1 and Table 1 is a bench test indicative of wear performance of a lubricant.

[0154] When the same ingredients of Example 1 are formulated while omitting one or more of the ingredients, the comparative results are as shown in Table 1 and FIG. 1.

TABLE 1ASTM 4172 Shell Four BallAC +AC +AC +AC + SYN +AC +AC +AC +SYN +SYN +MOLY +MOLY +TESTACSYNSYNTEFMOLYTEFMOLYTEFVI + DI*Shell0.4050.3600.3730.4220.3300.3750.3320.3350.308Four-BallWear,mm

MO Motor Oils, VALVOLINE 10W30 All-Climate

SYN VALVOLINE 5W30 Synthetic, includes DI and VI

AC + SYN 10W30 AC + (20%) 5W30 Synthetic

MOLY Molybdenum

TEF TEFLON ®

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ADDITIVE Invention of Example 1

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TABLE 2ASTM 4742 - 88 OxidationRFOUTTFOUTCCS@20NCTP1@20NFSample(min)**(min)*Ruler***cPcPA1801382113,03012,540C3702793222,1609,360

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A 10W30 All Climate (Motor Oil Control)

*C 80% Control plus 20% Additive

**Thin Film Oxygen Uptake

***Modified test of ASTM 4742

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[0156] As can be seen from Tables 1 and 2, and FIGS. 1 through 5, the results using this additive show a remarkable improvement when compared to a conventional motor oil tested without the additive of the invention.

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[0157] A grease composition according to the invention of Example 1 can be conventionally mixed with a lithium soap of a fatty acid to thicken the composition and to result in an improved grease.

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A lubricant composition for use as a concentrate and motor oil having an enhanced thermal conductivity. One preferred composition contains a lubricant composition, nanomaterial, and a dispersing agent or surfactant for the purpose of stabilizing the nanomaterial. One preferred nanomaterial is a high thermal conductivity graphite, exceeding 80 W/m in thermal conductivity. Carbon nano material or nanostructures such as nanotubes, nanofibrils, and nanoparticles formed by grounding and/or milling graphite to obtain a mean particle size less than 500 nm in diameter, and preferably less than 100 nm, and most preferably less than 50 nm. Other high thermal conductivity carbon materials are also acceptable. To confer long-term stability, the use of one or more chemical dispersants or surfactants is useful. The graphite nanomaterials contribute to the overall fluid viscosity and providing a very high viscosity index. Particle size and dispersing chemistry is controlled to get the desired combination of viscosity and thermal conductivity increase from the lubricant. The resulting fluids have unique properties due to the high thermal conductivity and high viscosity index of the suspended particles, as well as their small size.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] This application is a Continuation-In-Part of copending U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 206,852 filed on Jul. 26, 2002 which claims priority from Ser. No. 09 / 520,738 filed on Mar. 7, 2000; which claims priority from U.S. Pat. No. 6,034,038 which issued on Mar. 7, 2000; which claims priority from U.S. Pat. No. 5,962,377 issued on Oct. 5, 1999; which claims priority from U.S. Pat. No. 5,763,369 which issued on Jun. 9, 1998 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,641,731 which issued on Jun. 24, 1997; and U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 737,731 filed on Dec. 16, 2003; Ser. No. 10 / 730,762 filed on Dec. 8, 2003 which claims priority from PCT / US02 / 16888 filed on May 30, 2002 and from 10 / 021,767 filed on Dec. 12, 2001 which claims priority from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60 / 254,959 filed on Dec. 12, 2000 all of which are incorporated by reference herein.TECHNICAL FIELD [0002] The invention relates to the general field of additives to improve the performance of lubricati...

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IPC IPC(8): C10M125/02C10M161/00C10M169/04
CPCB82Y30/00C10M125/02C10M161/00C10M169/044C10M2201/041C10N2240/10C10M2223/045C10M2227/061C10N2210/06C10N2220/082C10N2230/02C10M2215/064C10N2010/12C10N2020/06C10N2030/02C10N2040/25
Inventor ZHANG, ZHIGIANGSMITH, THOMAS R.WU, GEFEILOCKWOOD, FRANCES E.BAUMGART, RICHARD J.DITURO, MICHAEL A.
Owner ASHLAND LICENSING & INTPROP LLC
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