Use as lubricants

Non-soap greases using finely divided solids as thickeners are useful as lubricants at elevated temperatures. Materials used include organO Clays such as dimethyldioctyl-decyl-ammonium bentonite (Bentone greases) or selected dyestuffs which produce brightly coloured greases. 

The low molecular weight materials produced by this process are used as lubricants, whereas the high molecular weight materials, the polyisobutylenes, are used as VI improvers and thickeners. Polybutenes that are used as lubricating oils have viscosity indexes of 70—110, fair lubricating properties, and can be manufactured to have excellent dielectric properties. Above their decomposition temperature (ca 288°C) the products decompose completely to gaseous materials. 

Poly(alkylene glycol)s are also used as lubricity additives ia water-based synthetic cutting and grinding fluids (36), and ia aqueous metalworking fluids. Under the high frictional heating at the tool or die contact with the workpiece, the polyalkylene glycol comes out of solution ia fine droplets which coat the hot metal surfaces. 

Higher a-olefins can also be polymerized with cationic initiators to fiquid oligomeric materials with isomerized stmctures. These fiquids are manufactured commercially and used as lubricating oils. 

To overcome these difficulties, drilling fluids are treated with a variety of mud lubricants available from various suppHers. They are mostly general-purpose, low toxicity, nonfluorescent types that are blends of several anionic or nonionic surfactants and products such as glycols and glycerols, fatty acid esters, synthetic hydrocarbons, and vegetable oil derivatives. Extreme pressure lubricants containing sulfurized or sulfonated derivatives of natural fatty acid products or petroleum-base hydrocarbons can be quite toxic to marine life and are rarely used for environmental reasons. Diesel and mineral oils were once used as lubricants at levels of 3 to 10 vol % but this practice has been curtailed significantly for environmental reasons. 

Petroleum and Goal. The alkanolarnines have found wide use in the petroleum industry. The ethanolamines are used as lubricants and stabilizers in drilling muds. Reaction products of the ethan olamines and fatty acids are used as emulsion stabilizers, chemical washes, and bore cleaners (168). Oil recovery has been enhanced through the use of ethan olamine petroleum sulfonates (169—174). OH—water emulsions pumped from wells have been demulsifted through the addition of triethanolarnine derivatives. Alkanolarnines have been used in recovering coal in aqueous slurries and as coal—oil mix stabilizers (175—177). 

Condensation. The neopentyl trimethylolpropane carbonate [65332-76-5] formed from condensation of the trischloroformate of trimethylolpropane and neopentyl alcohol, is a clear yellow oil, useful as lubricant (77). 

The mechanisms for the reaction of sulfur with alkanes and unsaturated compounds are highly speculative, being strongly influenced by the specific stmcture of the substrate and by the conditions (particularly temperature) of reaction. Alkane (4), olefin (5), animal fat (6), and vegetable oil (7) sulfurization have been extensively studied because these reactions are models for vulcanization. Moreover, the products are used as lubricant additives. 

Sulfuiized and sulfurchlorinated unsaturated compounds and meicaptans are used as lubricant additives (antiwear, friction modification, load-carrying, extreme pressure and temperature, corrosion inhibition, and antioxidants), refinery catalyst regeneration compounds, steel processing (annealing) aids, and vulcanization catalysts (see Lubrication and lubricants). 

In addition to the fluoroplastics and fluororubbers already described other fluoropolymers have been marketed. Polymers of hexafluoropropylene oxide are marketed by Du Pont (Krytox). These materials have a low molecular weight (2000-7000) and are either oils or greases. The oils are uses as lubricants, heat transfer fluids and non-flammable oils for diffusion pumps. The greases are also used as lubricants. They have good heat and oil resistance but it is said that explosions may result from contact with the surfaces aluminium or magnesium cuttings. 

Stearic acid and metal stearates such as calcium stearate are generally used as lubricants at a rate of about 1-3% on the total compound. Waxes such as camauba and ceresin or oils such as castor oil may also be used for this purpose. 

Metal stearates such as zinc, magnesium or aluminium stearates are commonly used as lubricants at about 1 % concentration. Other materials that have been used successfully include oxidised paraffin wax and sulphonated castor oil. 

Mineral oils are widely used as lubricants, cutting oils, soluble oil coolants etc. 

EC policy is that waste oils from use as lubricants should be recycled or used as fuel as far as possible. Some EC countries have a more regulated organizational framework for collection and... 

Such a composition reduces friction, permeates drilling mud wall cake, destroys binding wall cake, and reduces differential pressure. Unfortunately, many of such compositions are toxic to marine life. Synthetic PAOs are nontoxic and effective in marine environments when used as lubricants, retum-of-permeabiUty enhancers, or spotting fluid additives for water-based drilling muds. A continuing need exists for other nontoxic additives for water-based drilling muds, which serve as lubricants, retum-of-permeability enhancers, and spotting fluids. 

K. Wall, P. W. Zard, D. J. Barclay-Miller, and D. W. Martin. Amide and imide compounds and their use as lubricant oils. Patent WO 9530643, 1995. 

Metallic soaps such as zinc stearate or calcium stearate are used as lubricant, which reduces the friction coefficient of the surface of the thermosensitive layer resulting in smooth running on recording machines. 

Surfactants used as lubricants are added to polymer resins to improve the flow characteristics of the plastic during processing they also stabilise the cells of polyurethane foams during the foaming process. Surfactants are either nonionic (e.g. fatty amides and alcohols), cationic, anionic (dominating class e.g. alkylbenzene sulfonates), zwitterionic, hetero-element or polymeric (e.g. EO-PO block copolymers). Fluorinated anionic surfactants or super surfactants enable a variety of surfaces normally regarded as difficult to wet. These include PE and PP any product required to wet the surface of these polymers will benefit from inclusion of fluorosurfactants. Surfactants are frequently multicomponent formulations, based on petro- or oleochemicals. 

Most hydraulic fluid preparations start as chemical mixtures. For instance, there is a considerable area of overlap in the specific petroleum hydrocarbon chemicals contained in the mineral oil and polyalphaolefin hydraulic fluids. For all classes of hydraulic fluids, there may be similarities with other original products intended for use as lubricants. The complications involved in documenting the environmental fate of mixtures increase under conditions encountered at many NPL sites, where it may be hard to determine the precise original product associated with chemicals identified at an area in need of remediation. In most instances, available peer-reviewed literature, supplemented with data obtained from manufacturers of particular formulations and information in trade magazines, can supply information about the original hydraulic fluid preparations. At NPL sites, site-specific evaluations of specific chemicals may be the only feasible way to address concerns over environmental fate and potential exposure risks. 

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