27th ELGI Annual General Meeting Energy Efficiency 18th – 21st April 2015 Hilton Diagonal Mar, Barcelona‐Spain Preliminary Programme Saturday 18h April 2015 09:00 WG Grease Particle Evaluation Report Chairman Joe Kaperick – Afton Chemical 12:00 ‐ 18:00 Exhibitors set up 12:00 ‐ 18:00 Registration 09:10 WG Test Methods Report Chairman Olav Hoeger ‐ Shell Global Sunday 19th April 2015 Solutions 10:00 ‐ 18:00 Exhibitors set up 09:20 WG Bio‐Based Grease Report Co‐Chair Lou Honary – Honary Enterprises 10:00 ‐ 18:00 Registration 12:00 ‐ 14:00 ELGI Board Meeting 09:30 WG Railway Lubricants Report Chairman Henri Braun ‐ ExxonMobil Working Group Meetings Sunday 19th April 2015 09:40 NLGI presentation NLGI President – Bruce Urban 09:00 Grease Particle Evaluation WG meeting 10:00 Food Grade Lubricants WG meeting 09:45 Grease production survey Chuck Coe – Grease Technology Solutions 11:30 Test Methods & Rheology WG meeting 13:00 Lunch (on your own) 14:00 Railway Lubricants WG meeting & George Dodos – Eldon’s 10:00 Coffee 15:30 Bio‐Based Greases WG meeting 10:30 Yield stress and static friction. Welcome Reception A tribological examination of a 18:30 Welcome reception rheological property Werner Stehr ‐ Dr. Tillwich Day 1 • overcome by an external acting force Monday 20th April 2015 08:30 Opening Session & Business Meeting • Chairman Andre Adam – Fragol Both forces act against the direction of the movement ELGI Chairman ‐ Terry Dicken 08:50 WG Food Grade Lubricants Report Static friction and yield stress can only be • A higher yield strength leads to an increased static friction 11:00 Energy efficiency of grease lubricated • gearboxes Johann‐Paul Stemplinger – FZG Institute • • • savings to be achieved with the right grease? • What are the basic influences on the have a positive influence on energy efficiency Different grease filling levels, speeds and 14:30 Coffee torques are looked at Various base oils and thickeners of greases 15:00 Case studies in lubricating grease energy have a strong impact on the lubrication supply efficiency of the gears Brian Kusak – Summit Lubricants • 11:30 Electro mobility – Tribological aspects of Wilfried Bartz – TAE with respect to energy efficiency • What needs to be considered when generating electricity by wind or water? Variations in base oil viscosity and coefficient of friction are considered to optimize a grease electricity production by wind and water • Friction modifiers are tested whether they lubrication of spur gear boxes? • What are the methods of measuring energy How can the test rig data be transferred into the real world? • Results of a grease used in a steel mill show overall savings Providing a review and an outlook to the future 12:00 Lunch 15:30 Energy efficiency through sulphonate complex greases in industrial applications 13:30 Energy efficiency and lubrication mechanisms of polymer thickened greases S.C. Nagar ‐ Indian Oil Corporation • How can energy savings be measured in the Johan Leckner – Axel Christiernsson • What are the main differences between real application? • polymer thickened greases compared with greases based on soap thickeners? • • Direct and indirect measurements are discussed • Calcium sulphonate complex greases have Energy savings in bearing test rigs are observed been found to provide overall energy savings in based on different thickeners and base oil some industrial applications viscosities Can the results obtained on the test rigs be transferred into reality? 17:00 Coaches depart to Codorniu Cellars 14:00 The development of energy efficient 18:15 Cocktails & Tour of Cava Cellars • greases 20:00 Gala Dinner & Entertainment Gareth Fish – Lubrizol 23:00 Coaches return to the Hilton Hotel Where in industrial lubrication is energy efficiency most important? Day 2 • An example is given evaluating high Tuesday 21st April 2015 temperature performance of greases based on 09:00 The solution of grease for truck wheel various additive component combinations • • bearing Gao Yanqing – Sinopec 11:00 Coffee Running a field test for 200,000 km in truck wheel bearings is showing which thickener and 11:30 Improvement on performance of NLGI‐class give the best results overbased calcium sulfonate complex Used greases are analysed with respect to greases rheology, bleeding, anti‐leakage and tackiness Ruiming Zhang ‐ Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC • for their superior behaviour with respect to EP‐ 09:30 Lubrication properties of Spherical • • Molybdenum Disulfide (SMD) in greases performance, water resistance and rust Yakov Epstheyn – Climax Molybdenum inhibition performance Does Spherical Molybdenum Disulfide make • the Stribeck Friction Coefficient which is MoS2‐powder? directly related to energy efficiency What are the benefits? 12:00 The effect of polymer additives on grease flow properties 10:00 Lubricants for vacuum and space David DeVore – Functional Products applications Amaya Igartua – Tekniker • Grease used in centralized lubrication systems How can tribochemical reactions be analysed must have proper flow characteristics under under vacuum and ultrahigh vacuum operating conditions conditions? • It is shown that specific additives can improve the difference compared to conventional • Calcium sulfonate complex greases are known • What influence do polymeric additives have on Friction, wear and tribodesorption properties the flow properties of greases at ambient can be determined using the CATRI©‐test temperatures and at 0°C? equipment 12:30 Energy aspects of lubricants development 10:30 Screen tests – Identifying the “Good Actors” in your high temperature grease system formulation Alexander S. Medzhibovskiy – Qualitet Joseph P. Kaperick – Afton Chemical Group Cooperation • with regard to the entropy of the resulting • How can statistical tools and test modelling help to speed up the development of greases? Taking into account the aggregate state of each component in a lubricant • What are the results with regard to the competition between the energy aspects versus the entropy of the system? 13:00 Reducing energy losses in electrical motors – previously unrecognized “low‐ hanging‐fruits” • • End of Conference ELGI Hemonylaan 26 Stefan Daegling – Shell Global Solutions 1074 BJ Amsterdam The Netherlands What is the theory behind energy losses when T: +31 20 6716162 F: +31 20 6732760 lubricating electrical bearings? • 13:30 Grab & Go Lunch [email protected] www.elgi.org Focus of the paper is on tests with different base oils and thickeners Theoretical predictions are compared with laboratory results and field tests