DieselPower
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You seem to forget Lubrizol does not sell additive in a bottle to the average Joe on the street. They make and sell the additives that oil, grease, fuel additive manufacturers use. They are a key player in the industry in setting standards for diesel, gas, oil... specs all over the world. The engineer that gave the lectures at the meeting I was at is actually the head of the European board that is designing their new diesel fuel standards.
Remember last year when they had the Mad Cow scare in Canada and the US banned beef imports. The Canadian government called Lubrizol. They are the ones that suggested that they render them into tallow and turn them into bio fuel. Apparantely Canada in the near future will greatly decrease their beef exports and start to grow cattle to turn into bio fuel. Thank Lubrizol for that.
Remember the problems "some" people in the US had this last winter with ULSD fuel gelling at temps as high as 7 deg. F. above 0. Lubrizol is the one that figured out what the problem was. Since the new refining processes have been introduced to manufacturer ULSD there are different paraffin wax molecules now found in the fuel. The chain molecules now found in ULSD have shifted to longer type unsaturated molecules. Some of the additives people were using was actually making the gelling problem worse. Lubrizol had samples of gelled fuel filters they did analysis on that they could not get the wax to reliquify until it reached 147 deg. F. Way higher then ever seen before in the US. The problem apparantly was that some of the diesel fuel pour depressants used were being added in 4 or 5 times the mix ratio's suggested because they were not working. The additives in the depressants actually combined with the unsaturated molecules and formed compounds that had never been seen before. Thank Lubrizol for all the research on this.
Lubrizol is not just a additive manufacturer. They are the go to people when anyone in the industry has a problem. Need training in lubricants engineering or want to become CLS or STLE certified, Lubrizol is the company to see.
Remember last year when they had the Mad Cow scare in Canada and the US banned beef imports. The Canadian government called Lubrizol. They are the ones that suggested that they render them into tallow and turn them into bio fuel. Apparantely Canada in the near future will greatly decrease their beef exports and start to grow cattle to turn into bio fuel. Thank Lubrizol for that.
Remember the problems "some" people in the US had this last winter with ULSD fuel gelling at temps as high as 7 deg. F. above 0. Lubrizol is the one that figured out what the problem was. Since the new refining processes have been introduced to manufacturer ULSD there are different paraffin wax molecules now found in the fuel. The chain molecules now found in ULSD have shifted to longer type unsaturated molecules. Some of the additives people were using was actually making the gelling problem worse. Lubrizol had samples of gelled fuel filters they did analysis on that they could not get the wax to reliquify until it reached 147 deg. F. Way higher then ever seen before in the US. The problem apparantly was that some of the diesel fuel pour depressants used were being added in 4 or 5 times the mix ratio's suggested because they were not working. The additives in the depressants actually combined with the unsaturated molecules and formed compounds that had never been seen before. Thank Lubrizol for all the research on this.
Lubrizol is not just a additive manufacturer. They are the go to people when anyone in the industry has a problem. Need training in lubricants engineering or want to become CLS or STLE certified, Lubrizol is the company to see.
