Tribology and Lubricants

Korean Tribology Society (한국트라이볼로지학회)
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Development of a Simulation Program to Predict the Performance of the Multi-grade Lubricant before Blending Base Oil with Additives

기유와 첨가제 혼합 전 다등급 윤활유의 성능 예측 시뮬레이션 프로그램 개발

  • 전상명 (호서대학교 자동차공학과)
  • Received : 2012.02.05
  • Accepted : 2012.03.16
  • Published : 2012.04.30
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Abstract

Generally, to product multi-grade oil like engine oil, a sort of mineral base oil is mixed with a fundamental additive package liquid and a polymer liquid as viscosity index improver in order to improve the lubricating property of base oil. That is, engine oil is the mixture of more than two fluids. Specially, a polymeric type liquid cannot be seen as the linear viscosity like Newtonian fluids. In this research, by using the governing equation describing non-Newtonian hydrodynamic lubrication related with the mixture of incompressible fluids based on the principle of continuum mechanics, it will be compared the bearing performance between the mixture of each liquid to be blended and multi-grade engine oil as a single fluid in a high speed hydrodynamic journal bearing. Further, it is to be found the way estimating the performance of the blended multi-grade engine lubricant in a journal bearing in advance before blending by using the physical properties of mineral base oil, fundamental additive liquid and polymer liquid of viscosity index improver. So, it can be reduced the number of trial and error to get the wanted lubricant by selecting the proper volume fraction of each liquid to satisfy the expected performance and estimating in advance the performance of various multi-grade oils before blending. Therefore, it can be shorten the developing time and saved the developing cost.

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