Lube-Tech Biobased –
Historical Summary The interest in biobased lubricants and particularly greases are on the rise. Interestingly, the original introduction of environment friendly lubricants began in Europe during the early 1980s. US researchers and lubricants experts followed Europe’s lead and the 1990s saw a huge developmental activity in the United States. Companies like The Lubrizol Corporation invested significant amount of resources to develop additive packages for vegetable oil based hydraulic oils and focused on high oleic and ultra-high
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Biodegradable – Environmentally aware lubricants
Dr. Lou A. Honary, President, Environmental Lubricants Manufacturing, Inc.
oleic sunflower oils as base oils. In the early 1990s, the giant US agricultural equipment manufacturer Deere and Company introduced a Universal Tractor Transmission Hydraulic Fluid called Bio-Hy-Gard which had the research cooperation of The Lubrizol Corporation’s additive technology. It was specifically designed to accommodate prevailing mandates in the Black Forest areas in Germany. Caterpillar too later introduced, a hydraulic fluid called Bio-Hydo.
Introduction
Figure 1: OEM produced biobased hydraulic fluids in the United States Early 1990s, ELM3
brands
In 1991, this author founded a biobased research center at the University of Northern Iowa with support from the Iowa Soybean Promotion Board (ISPB) and the US Department of Agriculture among many other funding agencies. In 1997 a soybean oil-based version of Bio-Hy-Gard was introduced as a soybean oil-based universal tractor transmission hydraulic fluid with funding support from ISPB. This product has been under the ELM brand (Figure 1). Europe’s interest peaked again during the current century after research and developmental activities in the US had blossomed into a growing business. Most importantly, the US government initiated purchase preference programs for federal purchasing agents in order to create usage history and a model for
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