advancing automotive engineering have only managed a 15% improvement2
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Adding to the complexity, OEMs, pressured to increase fuel economy and reduce tail pipe emissions, designed highly sophisticated bespoke engines. To ensure their engines had adequate lubrication protection, the OEMs began adding their own unique specifications to the standard industry requirements. Today OEMs typically require baseline performance level - ACEA, API, ILSAC - that contains about 10 engine tests and another set of around 10 OEM specified engine tests. Hence ~20 engine tests are needed to pass for today’s OEM approvals. Typically it will take from one to two years for completion and costs involved are in multimillion Euro level.
Life-cycle assessment adding to business complexity or a path to efficiency? Life-cycle assessment (LCA) quantifies the overall GHG impacts of a product or service through its life-time. Referred to as a cradle to grave assessment, it evaluates the environmental impacts from raw material extraction and processing (cradle), through manufacture, distribution, use, recycling and final disposal (grave) for a product.
Minimising life-cycle impacts is challenging for lubricant blenders. Ironically, they are the front-line soldiers in reducing carbon in the transport sector, but doing so requires premium base oils that may be shipped from large distances so they can formulate products that fit within tightening margins of performance requirements for improving fuel economy reduced tailpipe emissions.
Optimising formulation economics while minimising LCA impacts will become more important. Lubricant blenders will start adding LCA-based criteria when evaluating their base oil suppliers... how far is your terminal, what is your transport method, what are your initiatives for lowering the carbon intensity in your operations?
Summary
Decarbonising the transport industry needs to happen as quickly as possible. Electric vehicles are one solution. More importantly, is reducing carbon from internal combustion engine vehicles which are projected to dominate the on-road vehicle fleet until 2050. That will come from technological advancements in engine design, catalytic converters, fuels and lubricants. With more than one billion ICE vehicles on the road, lubricant solutions will depend on Group II/II+/III/III+ base oils, which are available in sufficient volume. Assessing a supplier’s LCA impacts will also become an important criterion in choosing a base oil supplier.
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