US2850458A - Process for preparing mixed-salt grease compositions - Google Patents

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US2850458A
US2850458A US592859A US59285956A US2850458A US 2850458 A US2850458 A US 2850458A US 592859 A US592859 A US 592859A US 59285956 A US59285956 A US 59285956A US 2850458 A US2850458 A US 2850458A
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  • This invention relates to an improved method for preparing lubricating grease compositions thickened with a complex mixedsalt thickener and the compositions produced thereby.
  • the invention relates to an improved process for preparing lubricating greases -thickened with complex mixed-salt thickeners whereby a smooth, homogeneous and substantially grain-free (or grit-free) product is produced.
  • a complex mixed-salt thickener of the invention is formed by the neutralization with a metal base of (1) a low molecular weight organic and/or inorganic acid and (2) a high and/or intermediate molecular weight fatty acid.
  • the complex mixed-salt thickener will therefore be formed from one of the following combination of acids:
  • the most generally used method of the prior art involved coneutralization of a mixture of acids.
  • a mixture of the low and high and/or intermediate molecular weight acids is neutralized with suitable bases, particularly the hydroxide and/ or carbonate of the desired metals;
  • suitable bases particularly the hydroxide and/ or carbonate of the desired metals.
  • This coneutralization step is generally carried out in a grease kettle in situ, in the liquid menstrum to which the complex compound is to be applied in actual use.
  • the mixed acids may be coneutralized in a portion or all of the lubricating oil forming the dispersant of a grease to be thickened by the mixed-salt complex. Coneutralization is possible in cases in which the salts have the same.
  • the coneutralized material may be heated to temperatures of about 250 to 550 F. prior to use in order to dehydrate the product and to promote the formationof a complex in some instances, as whenan alkaline earth metal hydrate is used.
  • the mixed-salt complex has also been prepared by separately performing at least a portion of the high and/ or intermediate molecular weight carboxylic acid salt, intimately mixing this salt with the low molecular weight salt, and then heating, if necessary.
  • This method is less desirable than coneutralization and is useful from a practical standpoint only when diiferent metals are employed in forming the diflferent salts.
  • the coneutralization method is the preferred method of formingcomplex mixed-salt thickatent eners of the same metal, it has the disadvantage of forming a gritty (or grainy) grease (i. e., a grease which contains small, hard particles) when certain low molecular weight acids are used in forming the complex thickener.
  • a gritty (or grainy) grease i. e., a grease which contains small, hard particles
  • the formation of grit is particularly bad and very undesirable. This grit apparently results from the reaction of the low molecular weight acid with the metal base to form a salt which does not complex, i.
  • this invention is therefore directed towards an improved process of preparing these complex mixed-salt thickeners which eliminates or at least substantially reduces the formation of objectionable grit particles.
  • the high molecular weight carboxylic acids contemplated in this invention are the saturated and unsaturated grease-making fatty acids that are commonly known in the art. In general, these fatty acids have from about 12 to 30 carbon atoms, preferably about 12 to 22 carbon atoms per molecule, having saponification values of from about 300 to 150. Suitable fatty acids include lauric, myristic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, the various hydroxy stearic acids, oleic acid, arachidic acid, behenic acid and the like. Naturally occurring fatty acids such as fish oil acids, tallow acid, coconut oil acids, etc. may also be utilized directly or after hydrogenation to decrease any undesirably high degree of unsaturation. Mixtures of these high molecular weight fatty acids, e. g. hydrogenated fish oil acids with oleic acid, in any proportions, are. also operable, as are fractions obtained by distillation, extraction or crystallization.
  • intermediate molecular weight monocarboxylic acids are those straight-chain, saturated fatty acids having from about 7 to 10 carbon atoms.
  • Operable intermediate molecular weight carboxylic acids are exemplihad by:
  • Enanthic (heptanoic) 431 Caprylic (octanoic) 144 389 Pelargonic (n0nanoio) 158 354
  • .monocarboxylic acids having 1 to 3 carbon atoms per molecule are preferred. Formic and particularlyacetic acid are especially preferred. Also, inorganic acids such as hydrochloric, phosphoric, nitric and/or sulfuric acids may be substituted for all or part of the low molecular weight organic acids.
  • Acetic acid which is especially preferred, may be employed as glacial acetic acid or in a concentrated aqueous solution.
  • the metal components of the mixed-salts may be any group 11 metal, such as calcium, magnesium, barium or strontium, and may be supplied in the form of a metal base such as either the metal oxides, hydroxides or metal carbonates. Calcium hydroxide or hydrated lime is especially preferred.
  • the lubricating oil may be either a mineral base lubrieating oil or various synthetic oils.
  • Mineral base lubricating oils ranging in viscosity from about 30-1000 S.'U.s at- 100 F. are preferably employed as the liquid phase of the grease compositions of the invention.
  • These naturally occurring mineral lubricating oils may be derived from any petroleum crude source, whether paraffinic or naphthenic in type, and may be refined by any of the known refining techniques of the petroleum industry.
  • the invention is not limited, however, to the use of mineral base oils, since various synthetic oils having at least 30, Saybolt Universal viscosity at 100 F. may also be used as part or all of the liquid phase of the grease.
  • operable synthetic lubricating oils include ether alcohols, such as those corresponding to the general formula R0 (C H O) H wherein R is an alkyl group, e. g.
  • dibasic acids such as adipic or sebacic acid with monohydric alcohols, such as hexyl, .octyl, 2-ethyl hexyl or higher alcohols; esters of polyethylene glycols with C to C branched-chain carboxylic acids; complex esters of polybasic carboxylic acids, polyhydric alcohols, and monobasic acids and/or monohydric alcohols, such as the glycol-centered or dibasic acid-centered complex esters; phosphoric acid esters or thioesters of aliphatic alcohols or mercaptansof up to about 18 carbon atoms; halocarbon oils, such as the polymers of chlorofluoro alkylenes like chlorotrifluoroethylene; organo-siloxanes; sulfite esters, organic carbonates; mercaptals; formals, etc.
  • monohydric alcohols such as hexyl, .octyl, 2-ethyl hexy
  • lubricating grease composition of this invention about 50 to 97 wt. percent of lubricating oil and from about 3 to 50 wt. percent of the complex thickener may be used.
  • a preferred range is from about 10 to wt. percent of the complex thickener, based on the weight of the total composition.
  • This complex thickener is prepared by using 1 mole of the high and/or intermediate molecular weight acid with about 3 to 15 mols, preferably 5 to 12 mols of the low molecular Weight acid and about 2 to 8 mols, preferably 3 to 6 mols of the metal base.
  • Mixtures of the high and intermediate molecular weight acids may also be used in any ratios, e. g, about .15 to 50.0 mols of high molecular weight acid per mole ofintermediate molecular weight acid.
  • The-composition prepared in accordance with the invention may also contain various conventional additives, such as inhibitors, dyes, metal deactivators, corrosion reventives, deodorants, etc., as will be understood by those skilled in the art.
  • the metal base may also be contained in the oil in one stream, while the other stream contains the low molecular weight acid and the high and/or intermediate molecular weight acid.
  • the essential condition is that one stream contains,
  • the low molecular weight acid while the other stream' contains the metal base.
  • the low molecular weight acid will generally be insoluble in oil, it is preferred that the oil is not present in the stream containing the low molecular weight acid.
  • the preferred method of the invention employs a slurry stream of the oil menstruum, the metalbase and, the high and/ or intermediate molecular weight acids as one stream.
  • This slurry stream is fed concurrently with a stream of the low molecular Weight acid into a mixing zone wherein the low molecular weight acid is very intimately dispersed into said slurry.
  • suitable mixers for achieving this intimate dispersion are described in Manufacture and Application of Lubricating Greases, by C. J. Boner, published in 1954 by Reinhold Publishing Company, New York, N. Y., such as the Turbinizer (formerly called Lancaster Disperser) (pages 255-256), Charlotte Colloid Mill (pages 268-269), or simply a centrifugal pump.
  • Turbinizer originally called Lancaster Disperser
  • Charlotte Colloid Mill pages 268-269
  • a homogenizer having a spring loaded valve such as a Manton-Gaulin homogenizer, or other non-rotating mixers having high enough rates of shear may also be used.
  • any device will suffice that is capable of completing a mixing operation in less than five seconds and operating at a high enough rate of shear (5000 to 100,000 reciprocal seconds), to reduce the low molecular weight acid to drops of less than 0.05 mm.
  • the rate of shear for a rotary mixer is defined as:
  • the mixing zone therefore, should operate under a rate of shear of about 5,000 to 100,000 reciprocal seconds, e. g. 5,000 to 30,000 and an energy input of about .1 to 30, e. g. 5 to 1-5, horsepower-seconds of energy per pound of material introduced into said mixing zone.
  • the grease thus formed may then be dehydrated and heated to complex-forming temperatures by either conventional batch or by continuous methods.
  • Hydrogenated fish oil acids (10% C 25% C
  • the mixture of the above ingredients was heated in a conventional fire heated grease kettle to 450 F. in a period of 3 hours to dehydrate the product and to form the complex thickener.
  • a slurry stream containing the metal base flows through line 10, to the intake of the gear pump 11, or other positive metering means.
  • the slurry is then discharged from gear pump 11, at a constant rate through line 12, and enters the mixer 13.
  • the stream containing the low molecula weight acidfiows from a mixing or storage tank (not shown) through line 14, into the intake of the gear pump 15.
  • the solution containing the low molecular weight acid is discharged from the gear pump 15, at a constant rate through line 16, into the mixer 13, where intimate mixing occurs between the slurry containing the metal base. and the solution containing the low molecular weight acid.
  • the resulting mixture is discharged from the mixer 13, through line 17, into the heater 18 where the mixture is dehydrated.
  • the dehydrated mixture leaves the heater 18, through line 19, and is further processed to form the complex thickeners and the finished grease product.
  • Example I A slurry was initially prepared by blending the following ingredients:
  • Coastal mineral oil having a viscosity of 500 S. S. U. at 100 F 75 Hydrated lime, 98.5 Wt. percent Ca(OH) 15 Castor wax (hydrogenated castor oil) 5 Hydrogenated fish oil acids which is C 25% C16, 45% C 10% C 5% C saturated acids 5
  • the slurry was heated to a temperature of 200 F. and maintained there sufficiently long to completely react the ingredients and was then cooled to 80 F. Referring to the drawing, the slurry was fed through line 10, to the gear pump 11, and was discharged from said pump 11, at the rate of 75 grams per minute through line 12, into the mixer 13, which was a 3" rotor diameter Gould centrifugal pump driven at 1750 R. P. M.
  • the mixer 13 provided a shear rate of about 10,000 reciprocal seconds rate of shear and an energy input of about 10 H. P. see/lb.
  • a 60% aqueous acetic acid solution was also fed through line 14, into the gear pump 15, from where it was discharged at the rate of 25 grams per minute into line 16, and into mixer
  • the grease tearing the mixer 15, through its discharge line 17, was at a temperature of 144 to 150 F. and was well dispersed.
  • This product was passed into the heater 18, where it was heated to a temperature of 300 F. over a period of time of about sec.
  • the discharge stream from the heater was then diluted with 1 /2 times its weight of additional mineral oil.
  • Phenyl-aipha-naphthylamine at the rate of 0.5 wt. percent based on total weight of the composition was added as an anti-oxidant.
  • One portion (Example IA) was cooked for a period of about 1 hour and at a temperature of about 460 F. in a fire heated kettle equipped with agitators.
  • the other portion (Example 13) was cooked in a continuous cooking apparatus where it was first passed through a heat exchanger and heated to a temperature of about 400 to 450 F., then passed through a heater where it was further heated to a temperature of about 500 to 510 F. to form the complex, followed by passing through a heat exchanger where it was cooled to about 225 to 275 F. and finally passed through a cooler where it was further cooled to a temperature of 150 to 250 F. The grease was then air cooled to room temperature.
  • the complex thickened grease prepared in a conventional manner had grit particles having a maximum diameter of 0.10 mm. This grease showed roughness and had a very definite gritty feel when touched.
  • the greases of Examples IA and 1B of the invention which were smooth and homogeneous in appearance, had a maximum grit diameter of 0.02 rnrn., and did not have a gritty feel, but were smooth and unctuous.
  • Example II A slurry was prepared by blending the following ingredients:
  • the slurry was fed through line 10, to the gear pump 11, from where it was discharged through line 12, into the mixer 13 (which was tne same Gould centrifugal pump described in Example I).
  • an acid mixture of two parts by weight of glacial (99%) acetic acid and one part by weight of the light fraction distilled from coconut fatty acid, containing by weight 24.5% caprylic acid, 57.8% capric acid and 17.5% lauric acid was fed through line 14, into the gear pump 15.
  • the acid mixture was discharged from gear pump 15', through line 16 and into the mixer 13.
  • the pump ratio of the two gear pumps 11 and 15 was such as to give three parts by weight of slurry to one part of the mixed acids.
  • the product discharged through line 17, from the mixer 13, was a heavy gel. This product passed through line 17, into the heater 18, where it was dehydrated by heating to a temperature of about 320 F. in about 25 seconds and then flashed to a vacuum dehydrator (Cornell homogenizer). Additional mineral oil was then added to the product in the amount of 38% by weight of mineral oil, based on the weight of the product from the mixer 13. The resulting mixture was then heated to about 500 F. in about 60 seconds to form the complex thickener.
  • the resulting grease had the following characteristics:
  • a process for the manufacture of a lubricant comprising lubricating oil and about 3 to 50 weightpercent of a'mixed-salt complex comprising alkaline earth metal salt of a C to C fatty acid and alkaline earth metal salt of a higher molecular weight fatty acid selected from the group consisting of intermediate and high molecular weight fatty acids and mixtures thereof, which comprises forming a slurry containing alkaline earth metal base and at least a portion of the lubricating oil, passing a than 0.05 mm. diameter, incorporating the remainder of said oil, heating to about 250 to 550 F. and cooling to form said lubricant.
  • said metal base is selected from the group consisting of oxides, hydroxides and carbonates.
  • a process for the manufacture of a grit-free lubrieating oil composition comprising lubricating oil and about 3 to 50 weight percent of a mixed-salt complex comprising an alkaline earth metal salt ofa C to C fatty acid and an alkaline earth metal salt of a higher molecular weight fatty acid selected from the group consisting of high and intermediate molecular weight fatty acids and mixtures thereof, which comprises forming a slurry containing an alkaline earth metal base and at least aportion of the lubricating oil, introducing a stream of said slurry into a mixing zone functioning under a shear rate of about 5,000 to 100,000 reciprocal seconds and an energy input of about 0.1 to 30 horsepower seconds per pound of material introduced into said mixing zone, simultaneously introducing.
  • a lubricating grease comprising a mineral lubricating oil and a mixedsalt complex type grease "thickener which in turn, comprises the oalcium salt of acetic acid and the calcium salt of a mixture of hydrogenated castorcil and hydrogenated fish oil acids, wherein said complex grease thickeneris formed in at least a portion of said mineral oil 'by the neutralization with'lime of amixture of hydrogenated castor oil,,hydrogenated fish oil acids and acetic acid, followed by'heating said mixture to atemperature conducive to the formation of a complex to form a grease, and subsequentlycooling said grease, the iniprovement which comprises highly dispersing said acetic acid in the form of droplets of about 0.02 mm.
  • a process for the manufacture of lubricating grease comprising mineral lubricating oil and a mixedsalt complex type grease thickener which in turn com-H prises the calcium salts of acetic acid, caprylic acid, capric acid, and lauric acid
  • said complex grease thickener is formed in at least a portion of said mineral oil by the neutralization with lime of a mixture of acetic, caprylic, capric, and lauric acids, followed by heating said mixture to a temperature conducive to the formation of a complex to form a grease and subsequently cooling said grease
  • the improvement which comprises, highly dispersing said mixture of acids in .the form of droplets of less than about 0.02 mm. maximum diameter in a slurry of lime and mineral oil, followed by heating to form said mixed-salt complex and then cooling.

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