Attaching handouts of my presentation that was mentioned in the L'n'G interview by Tim Sullivan.I'd be very interested in any papers about lubrication I could have access to, actually.
Attaching handouts of my presentation that was mentioned in the L'n'G interview by Tim Sullivan.I'd be very interested in any papers about lubrication I could have access to, actually.
I am almost positive I have read this presentation a couple weeks ago.. Someone linked me it on another site.. I'm going to search through my history to see if it was the same.. so strange! Small world! Thank you for sharing! It all seems like common sense to me!Attaching handouts of my presentation that was mentioned in the L'n'G interview by Tim Sullivan.
........ & F1 engines are like pedestrian engines.
Boris has spoken.
Yes, it was a part of Shell Eco Marathon 2010 competition. I wouldn't call it a car, though. Agilis Eco Car is a vehicle weighing just 20 kg and equipped by a tiny HCCI engine. Driven by a tiny girl pilot, this marvel is capable of doing 300 miles at 1L of gasoline! It was designed and built at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.Sometime after you left E-ion, didn't you design or create the oil for aproject car? I believe it was something like running the furthest on a litre of fuel? If you don't mind me asking.
Going through the presentation now, thanks.
Correct. Michel Roegiers, Jr., is a grandson of Elektrion co-founder, Michel Roegiers, Sr.I remember the press release. Didn't know or remember it was so tiny, wouldn't call it a car either.
Just before someone here posted about oil used by the germans in WW2. I'm sure you know, they didn't know about ZDDP yet but used something called VOLTOL. I tried to find out what that was and ended up with Elektrion and it's history. I found the white papers by you and Michel Roegiers, and the press release.
For others who are interested in ionised vegetable oils, There was a company in Belgium making it (Elektrion) but during WWI the germans relocated the machinery to Germany. I believe that became VOLTOL and a very important component in their engine oils.
As known, common sense is the least common of all the sensesI am almost positive I have read this presentation a couple weeks ago.. Someone linked me it on another site.. I'm going to search through my history to see if it was the same.. so strange! Small world! Thank you for sharing! It all seems like common sense to me!
Yes, the old company went bankrupt. 70 years ago the Elektrion products used to be truly unique, but now there are many competing solutions available. In fact, organic friction modifiers are pretty common in today's lubricant formulations. I can share another presentation about superlubricity additives.I visited Gent when I learned about Elektrion aswell, but when I got there they were demolishing the plant. I see however the brand still survives.
I found it very interesting as it's something unique in the oil business, and the vegetable base is definitely a plus. Superlubricity and friction modification is what is needed to go to lower fuel consumption in existing motors and vehicles.
But we also lack knowledge here about coatings and surface preparations, it would be good if you found time to share insights with that once in a while. it will be the future, especially if fuel consumption will be brought down further through lower viscosity oils.
Sure, it's a part our customer education effort. No other area has so many hypes and misconceptions as lubricants.Excellent. The presentation led me to the bizol website aswell which has many interesting articles adressing commonly asked questions here about TBN TAN and viscosity for example. Can I refer people to them, or even better quote some paragraphs? I've been telling people to consider flash points and Noack % to help determine the base oil quality and what influence there could be on shear stability. It would be better if they can read that from an expert though and not from me...
for example: https://www.bizol.com/products/research-development/detail-view/news/viscosity-matters
His cohort, Natasha, will be next!
Boris has spoken.