EP0927754A1 - Minimisation des variations de viscosité dans les moteurs diesel de vitesse moyenne en utilisant dans des compositions lubrifiantes d'additifs polymères - Google Patents

Minimisation des variations de viscosité dans les moteurs diesel de vitesse moyenne en utilisant dans des compositions lubrifiantes d'additifs polymères Download PDF

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EP0927754A1
EP0927754A1 EP98309433A EP98309433A EP0927754A1 EP 0927754 A1 EP0927754 A1 EP 0927754A1 EP 98309433 A EP98309433 A EP 98309433A EP 98309433 A EP98309433 A EP 98309433A EP 0927754 A1 EP0927754 A1 EP 0927754A1
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  • This invention relates to a zinc-free medium-speed diesel engine lubricating oil composition and more particularly to a zinc-free medium-speed diesel engine lubricating oil composition containing a baseline oil and a polymeric shear agent to minimize variations in viscosity.
  • Medium-speed diesel engines are used in applications where several thousands of horsepower are needed. This includes locomotives operating in freight and passenger service, workboats operating in the inland and coastal waterways, and stand-by or continuous electrical power generation for a variety of applications including offshore drilling platforms and industrial facilities and buildings. Typically, these engines run at a speed of about 600 to 1,200 rpm. Such engines include those manufactured by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors (EMD), and General Electric, and those manufactured by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO), Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW), Bombardier, and Detroit Diesel (DD). All these engines are often lubricated with zinc-free medium-speed diesel engine lubricating oils when used in similar applications.
  • EMD Electro-Motive Division of General Motors
  • ALCO American Locomotive Company
  • MLW Montreal Locomotive Works
  • Bombardier Bombardier
  • DD Detroit Diesel
  • the maximum viscosity specified may be 15-30% above the initial viscosity of fresh oil. Higher viscosity not only shortens the useable life of the lubricating oil but also causes more fuel to be consumed because of frictional losses. For example, over a typical railroad duty cycle, an increase in viscosity of 1 cSt will cost 0.4% in fuel consumption.
  • Variations in viscosity are caused by a number of mechanisms that either increase it or decrease it. Oxidation and soot thickening cause the viscosity to increase. This increase is conventionally controlled with oxidation inhibitors and dispersants. Another source of variation in viscosity results from the deterioration of viscosity index improvers, which are used to control changes in viscosity due to temperature.
  • the viscosity index is a property of the oil that provides a measure for the loss in viscosity that oil exhibits when it is heated.
  • Most base oils used in engine oils do not have a high enough viscosity index as produced and require polymeric additives to reach the higher viscosity indices required to formulate multigrade oils. These polymeric additives are called viscosity index improvers (V.I. improvers).
  • V.I. improvers are used to improve the viscosity index of lubricating oils. Oil with a high viscosity index will not lose as much viscosity when heated as one with a low viscosity index.
  • High viscosity index oils are used as engine oils because they can be designed to minimize the oil's viscosity at low temperatures so that an engine can be started, yet provide adequate viscosity at operating temperatures to lubricate the moving parts.
  • High viscosity index oils are exemplified by multigrade oils, which were originally introduced to improve low-temperature starting characteristics.
  • V.I. improvers are the high molecular weight polymers and copolymers which may be grafted or ungrafted. They must have on one hand a sufficient thickening effect on a light lubricating oil at high temperatures to make the lubricating properties of said oil similar to those of a heavier lubricating oil and, on the other hand, they must have a limited thickening effect on a light lubricating oil at low temperatures to avoid impairing the viscometric properties of said oil at said low temperatures.
  • the purpose of V.I. improvers is to minimize the changes in viscosity of an oil composition when it is exposed to a variety of temperatures.
  • the high molecular weight V.I. improvers makes them susceptible to degradation as a result of shearing forces, resulting in lower lubricant viscosity.
  • the shearing of V.I. improvers causes the viscosity to decrease.
  • This mechanism for viscosity decrease is generally associated with multigrade lubricants, which are formulated with high molecular weight polymeric V.I. improvers.
  • the shear stability of V.I. improvers varies and is a major consideration in their selection. Polymers that exhibit a high degree of shear have been regarded as undesirable because, at the high dosages of polymer normally required to formulate multigrade oils, they could shear in service to damage bearings because of inadequate lubricating oil viscosity. As a result the V. I. improver manufacturers have designed improved polymers that shear less in service.
  • V.I. improvers are used as shear agents to minimize variations in viscosity over time. Rather than being used to improve an oil's viscosity index, they are used at low dosages to balance viscosity increase from oxidation and soot thickening by shearing in service.
  • olefin copolymers such as an ethylene propylene copolymer
  • OCP ethylene propylene copolymer
  • Another way to express their dosage that helps eliminate differences between polymer thickening efficiencies is to represent it on the basis of the increases in viscosity provided by the polymer at 100°C relative to that of the oil prior to the addition of the polymer. This is referred to as the incremental viscosity.
  • the OCP is normally added to give about 2.8 to about 5.5 incremental cSt at 100°C.
  • Polymethacrylate (PMA) polymers have stronger thickening efficiencies. For instance SAE 20W-40 oils are normally used at about 2.8 to about 4.8 incremental cSt at 100°C. At these higher dosages of the V.I.
  • single-grade oils do not contain polymers of sufficient molecular weight for much shearing to occur. Because of this, the viscosity of single-grade lubricating oils can increase quite quickly during normal service due to lubricant oxidation and soot thickening. Aside from increasing fuel consumption, in extreme cases, viscosity increase in the oil can cause severe damage to medium-speed diesel engines by reducing oil flow to critical bearings and oil-cooled parts, such as pistons. It can also contribute to oil filter plugging.
  • V.I. improvers are used as polymeric shear agents to minimize variations in viscosity due to oil oxidation and soot thickening.
  • V.I. improvers for lubricants A variety of polymeric materials are known as V.I. improvers for lubricants. For example:
  • V.I. improvers for lubricating oils comprising a polymer of molecular weight above 100,000, e.g., a polymethacrylate, and a polymer of molecular weight below 25,000, e.g., a polyisobutylene.
  • the combination of polymers is used in an attempt to make the V.I. improvers more shear stable.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,092,255 issued May 30, 1978 to Chapelet et al., discloses a lubricating composition containing a major proportion of a lubricating oil and a minor proportion of an oil-soluble specific nitrogenous polymer additive.
  • the additive improves the oil viscosity index while increasing the dispersancy of the final lubricating composition.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,922,045 issued May 1, 1990 to White et al., discloses polymer additives for improving oil consumption in a lubricating oil composition for heavy-duty engines, as used in tractor trailer trucks in over-the-road service.
  • the polymer additives described in that patent may be carbon-carbon polymers, copolymers, and graft copolymers, from about 0.02% to about 3.0 wt % in single-grade SAE 30 or 50 heavy-duty diesel engine lubricating oil.
  • the lubricating oil requirements for heavy-duty engines and medium-speed diesel engines differ significantly. The most obvious difference between these engines is their size. Medium-speed diesel engines are much larger, producing about ten times more power than heavy-duty engines in over-the-road-service. Medium-speed diesel engines also operate at one-half to one-third the engine speed, and apply a greater number of power assemblies per engine. These design differences require different lubricating oils. Moreover, one major medium-speed diesel engine manufacturer, General Motors, used silver bearings in their engines until 1994, precluding the use of zinc dithiophosphate additives because they are corrosive to silver. This class of additive is used in heavy-duty engines for anti-wear protection.
  • V. I. improver similar to those defined in the present invention as polymeric shear agents, was used to formulate a zinc-free medium-speed diesel engine oil.
  • the oil was severely hydrotreated, providing a multigrade 20W-40 oil without the need for any V.I. improver.
  • a minimal dosage of V. I. improver providing an incremental viscosity of about 0.9 cSt at 100 °C was added so that the oil would have a composition including this conventional additive.
  • the V.I. improver was used for conventional reasons rather than to minimize variations in viscosity, and it was dosed at a level below the useful range of this invention.
  • the medium-speed diesel engine lubricating oil composition comprises:
  • the polymeric shear agent gives about 1.5 to 2.5 cSt at 100°C incremental increase in viscosity over said baseline oil.
  • the TBN of the lubricating oil composition is about from 10 to 20 TBN and has greater than about 1% sulfated ash content.
  • the polymers may be ungrafted polymers, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polybutylene, polyisoprene, ethylene-propylene copolymer, polymethylacrylate, ethylene-butylene copolymer, styrene-isoprene copolymer, ethylene-propylene diene monomers, ethylene-propylene terpolymer, or styrene-butadiene copolymer.
  • ungrafted polymers such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polybutylene, polyisoprene, ethylene-propylene copolymer, polymethylacrylate, ethylene-butylene copolymer, styrene-isoprene copolymer, ethylene-propylene diene monomers, ethylene-propylene terpolymer, or styrene-butadiene copolymer.
  • the polymers may be polyethylene, polypropylene, polybutylene, polyisoprene, ethylene-propylene copolymer, polymethylacrylate, ethylene-butylene copolymer, styrene-isoprene copolymer, ethylene-propylene diene monomers, ethylene-propylene terpolymer, and styrene-butadiene copolymer, wherein nitrogen-containing compounds are grafted onto those polymers.
  • the grafted compounds can be N-vinyl imidazole, N-vinyl pyridine, N-vinyl pyrrolidone, an alkyl amine, an alkyl amide, or an alkyl imide.
  • the polymer is a polymethylacrylate, wherein monomers are grafted onto the polymer, and wherein the grafted polymer has a number average molecular weight of at least 450,000.
  • the polymer is ethylene-propylene copolymer, wherein monomers are grafted onto the copolymer, and wherein the grafted polymer has a number average molecular weight of from 100,000 to 450,000.
  • This invention provides for a method of minimizing variations in viscosity of a medium-speed diesel engine lubricating oil, comprising adding a polymeric shear agent to a baseline oil, thereby forming the medium-speed diesel engine lubricating oil; then using the medium-speed diesel engine lubricating oil to lubricate a medium-speed diesel engine.
  • the base oil of lubricating viscosity and an additive package containing the polymeric shear agent and other additives can be added together, thereby forming the medium-speed diesel engine lubricating oil. That medium-speed diesel lubricating oil is then used to lubricate the medium-speed diesel engine.
  • the medium-speed diesel engine lubricating oil composition can be produced by blending a mixture of a major amount of a zinc-free SAE 40 baseline oil; and a minor amount of a polymeric shear agent, which gives from 1.0 to 2.7 cSt at 100°C incremental increase in viscosity over said SAE 40 oil.
  • Figure 1 shows the effect of a polymethacrylate polymeric shear agent when added to a railroad diesel engine lubricating oil in a General Motors EMD SD50 locomotive.
  • Figure 2 shows the averaged viscosity history profiles for the test locomotives referred to in Figure 1, and the calculated viscosity profiles for 1.0 cSt, 1.9 cSt, and 2.7 cSt at 100°C incremental increase in viscosity.
  • Figure 3 shows the effect of an olefin copolymer as a shear agent when added to a railroad diesel engine lubricating oil in a General Motors EMD SD50 locomotive
  • Figure 4 shows the averaged viscosity history profiles for the test locomotives referred to in Figure 3, and the calculated viscosity profiles for 1.0 cSt, 2.2 cSt, 2.7 cSt at 100°C incremental increase in viscosity
  • Figure 5 shows the effect of an olefin copolymer as a shear agent when added to a railroad diesel engine lubricating oil in a General Electric C30-7 locomotive
  • Figure 6 shows the averaged viscosity history profiles for the test locomotives referred to in Figure 5, and the calculated viscosity profiles for 1.0 cSt, 1.7 cSt, 2.7 cSt at 100°C incremental increase in viscosity.
  • the invention relates to the discovery that addition of a polymeric shear agent minimizes the variation in viscosity due to oxidation and soot thickening.
  • medium-speed engine refers to an engine having an engine speed of about 600-1,200 rpm, corresponding to a cylinder bore size range of about 200-350 mm (about 8 to 13 inches).
  • zinc-free refers to less than 10 ppm of zinc in the lubricating oil composition from zinc dithiophosphate.
  • increment in viscosity refers to the increase in viscosity of an oil relative to its initial viscosity value as a result of adding a polymeric shear agent.
  • polymer refers to a long-chain compound composed of recurring structural units called monomers.
  • carbon-carbon polymer refers to a polymer having all carbon atoms along the backbone of the polymer.
  • copolymer refers to a polymer with different repeating units in the backbone of the polymer.
  • grafted copolymer refers to a polymer produced by grafting a nitrogen-containing compound onto a polymer or copolymer to produce a branched-chain polymer.
  • Total Base Number refers to the amount of base equivalent to milligrams of KOH in 1 gram of sample. Thus, higher TBN numbers reflect more alkaline products and therefore a greater alkalinity reserve.
  • the TBN of a sample can be determined by ASTM Test No. D2896 or any other equivalent procedure.
  • TBN is the neutralization capacity of one gram of the lubricating composition expressed as a number equal to the mg of potassium hydroxide providing the equivalent neutralization.
  • a TBN of 10 means that one gram of the composition has a neutralization capacity equal to 10 mg of potassium hydroxide.
  • sulfated ash refers to a metal-containing compound wherein the metal can be zinc, sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, lithium, barium, and the like, as measured by ASTM D874.
  • viscosity index refers to the amount of change for a given oil compared to two reference oils over the range 40-100°C as defined by ASTM D2270.
  • SAE 40 refers to an oil having a range of viscosity from 12.5 cSt at 100°C to less than 16.3 cSt at 100°C as defined by the SAE J300 specification.
  • SAE 20W-40 refers to an oil having a range of viscosity of an SAE 40 oil at 100°C plus a maximum low temperature cranking viscosity of 4,500 cP at -10°C as defined by the SAE J300 specification.
  • Baseline oils comprise a base oil of lubricating viscosity and a zinc-free medium-speed diesel engine dispersant-inhibitor additive system. Components of the baseline oil are further defined as follows.
  • Suitable base oils of lubricating viscosity that can be used to prepare the baseline lubricating oil of this invention are oils derived from petroleum or synthetic sources.
  • the oils can be paraffinic, naphthenic, synthetic esters, polyolefins, or combinations thereof.
  • the base oil of lubricating viscosity is a fraction of a mineral oil such as petroleum, either naphthenic, paraffinic or as mixed naphthenic/paraffinic base, unrefined, acid-refined, hydrotreated, or solvent refined as required for the particular lubricating need.
  • base oils can either be from virgin, reclaimed, or re-refined sources.
  • the oil of lubricating viscosity preferably will have a viscosity in the range from 5 to 20 cSt at 100°C. Suitable oils include low, medium, high, and very high viscosity index lubricating oils.
  • Metal detergents useful in zinc-free SAE 40 baseline oils are well known. They include, but are not limited to, alkyl or alkenyl phenates, alkyl or alkenyl sulfurized phenates, alkyl or alkenyl aromatic sulfonates, alkyl or alkenyl salicylates, alkyl or alkenyl sulfurized salicylates, alkyl or alkenyl napthenates, alkyl or alkenyl sulfurized napthenates, metal salts of alkyl or alkenyl multi-hydroxy aromatic compounds, metal salts of alkyl or alkenyl sulfurized multi-hydroxy aromatic compounds, alkyl or alkenyl hydroxy aromatic sulfonates, metal salts of alkanoic acids, metal salts of sulfurized alkanoic acids, metal salt of alkyl or alkenyl multiacids, metal salt of sulfurized alkyl or alkenyl multiacids, or chemical or physical mixtures thereof.
  • the polymeric shear agents of the present invention which may be used to minimize the variation in viscosity due to oxidation and soot thickening, include polymers that traditionally have been used as V.I. improvers. Such polymers may be carbon-carbon polymers, copolymers, and graft copolymers dissolved in a mineral oil. Examples of such polymers are described in U.S. Patent No. 4,922,045, issued May 1, 1990 to White et al., which is hereby incorporated by reference for all it discloses.
  • These polymeric shear agents are typical carbon-carbon backbone polymers prepared from monomers bearing a polymerizable double bond and include homopolymers or copolymers prepared from a monomer: where A may be: hydrogen; a hydrocarbon such as alkyl, aryl, etc.; phenyl; an acetate or less preferred acyloxy (typified by -COOR); halide, etc.
  • R' may be divalent hydrocarbon typified by alkylene, alkarylene, aralkylene, cycloalkylene, arylene, etc.
  • Examples of the above monomers include acrylates, methacrylates, vinyl halide (such as vinyl chloride), styrene, olefins such as butadiene, isoprene, hexadiene, ethylidene norbornene, etc. Homopolymers of olefins (such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polybutylene, etc.), dienes (such as hydrogenated polyisoprene), or copolymers of ethylene with e.g., butylene and higher olefins, styrene with isoprene and/or butadiene may be employed.
  • the preferred carbon-carbon backbone polymers include those selected from the group consisting of olefin copolymers (OCP) and polymethacrylate (PMA). The molecular weight of the polymers may be about 10,000 to about 1,000,000.
  • nitrogen-containing compounds may be grafted onto the copolymer but are not necessary to the performance of the additive for this invention.
  • the graft compounds that may be used include vinyl or alkyl compounds containing nitrogen (i.e., amides, imides, and amines) such as N-vinyl imidazole, N-vinyl pyridine, N-vinyl pyrrolidone, alkyl amine, etc.
  • the polymeric shear agents are generally polymers placed in diluent oil.
  • the diluents that may be used are generally highly refined low viscosity (typically 50-120 SUS at 100°F.) naphthenic or paraffinic mineral oils such as solvent neutral or pale oils.
  • the levels of polymeric shear agent used in the present invention are lower than normally found in multigrade lubricating oils.
  • the stabilizing effect of the polymeric shear agent will minimize the variation in viscosity of the lubricating oil due to oxidation and soot thickening.
  • the lower amount of V.I. improver will also help meet GE's high temperature, high shear specifications.
  • the addition of the polymeric shear agent may also reduce oil consumption.
  • SAE 40 oil is the only high temperature viscosity grade that meets General Motors (EMD) or General Electric (GE) medium-speed diesel engine builder's oil specifications.
  • EMD General Motors
  • GE General Electric
  • SAE 30 or 50 grade oils do not comply with medium-speed diesel engine builder's oil specifications.
  • the characteristic properties of SAE 30, 40, and 50 differ solely on their viscosity specifications as defined by the SAE J300 standard.
  • Oil blenders met these specifications by adjusting their base oil mixtures. For instance, a SAE 30 oil may be made with 40% of a light 150 Neutral oil and 60% of a heavier 600 Neutral oil, whereas a SAE 40 oil would have perhaps 10% of the 150 and 90% of the 600.
  • To make a SAE 50 oil most blenders would need to drop the light 150 neutral entirely and add a heavy component like a bright stock on to of the 600 Neutral oil.
  • the lubricating oil compositions can be conveniently prepared by simple blending or mixing of the polymeric shear agent with the baseline oil previously described above.
  • the polymeric shear agent may also be pre-blended into a concentrate with various other additives in the appropriate ratios, then blending the concentrate into a base oil of lubricating viscosity, so that the base oil of lubricating viscosity and other additives form a baseline oil within the total composition.
  • the lubricating oil composition of the invention contains only enough polymeric shear agent to give about from 1.0 to 2.7 cSt at 100°C incremental increase in viscosity over the baseline oil, preferably about from 1.5 to 2.5 cSt at 100°C incremental increase in viscosity over the baseline oil.
  • the lubricating oil composition should be free of zinc because the presence of zinc in the final product will be deleterious to silver-surfaced engine parts of certain medium-speed diesel engines, such as silver or silver-plated bearings. Silver, or silver-surfaced bearing parts, pose a special problem since many of the bearing protection additives are deleterious to silver bearings.
  • the lubricating oil composition has a TBN of about 10 to about 20, preferably about 13 to about 17.
  • TBN is a measure of the alkalinity or neutralizing capacity and is typically provided by the addition of basic detergents or overbased materials.
  • the function of the basic components is to neutralize acid and oxidation products, such as sulfuric acid or organic acids in the case of diesel fuels.
  • overbased materials can be used, such as, for example, phenates, salicylates, and sulfonates.
  • the sulfated ash content of the lubricating oil composition is at least 1 wt.%, preferably about from 1 to 2.5 wt.%, which is commensurate with a TBN range of about from 10 to 20.
  • the lubricating oil composition of the present invention is produced by blending a mixture of:
  • the lubricating oil composition produced by that method might have a slightly different composition than the initial mixture, because the components may interact.
  • the components can be blended in any order and can be blended as combinations of components.
  • the three tests provide data from polymethacrylate (PMA) and olefin copolymer (OCP) polymers and include results from locomotives manufactured by the Electro-Motive Division of the General Motors Corporation (EMD) and the General Electric Company (GE).
  • PMA polymethacrylate
  • OCP olefin copolymer
  • SAE 20W-40 multigrade oil with a PMA polymer in EMD engines
  • Figure 1 The results from a typical multigrade (SAE 20W-40) oil with a PMA polymer in EMD engines are shown in Figure 1.
  • the SAE 40 oil with no polymer exhibited an increase in viscosity from about 15.0 to about 16.5 cSt at about 100°C within about 100 days of operation, as shown by the solid line.
  • the hatched line indicates a typical SAE 20W-40 oil with about 4.0 cSt incremental viscosity from the PMA polymer exhibited a decrease to about 13.5 cSt within about the first 30 days, after which it rose slightly to about 14.0 cSt by about 100 days.
  • Figure 2 shows the averaged viscosity history profiles for the test locomotives referred to in Figure 1, and calculated viscosity profiles for 1.0 cSt, 1.9 cSt, and 2.7 cSt at 100°C incremental increase in viscosity linear interpolation.
  • Figure 4 shows the averaged viscosity history profiles for the test locomotives referred to in Figure 3, and the calculated viscosity profiles for 1.0 cSt, 2.2 cSt, 2.7 cSt at 100°C incremental increase in viscosity
  • Figure 6 shows the averaged viscosity history profiles for the test locomotives referred to in Figure 5, and the calculated viscosity profiles for 1.0 cSt, 1.7 cSt, 2.7 cSt at 100°C incremental increase in viscosity
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