Outlook’ highlighting a strengthening growth on demand. Peter Pratelli from Jet Lube delivered an outstanding presentation, well designed with animated graphics and rich content on ‘Maximising environmental grease compounds for extreme high pressure high temperature applications’.
‘Decorate your chain saw with flowers’ was the subject for Johanna Perrson’s important presentation, from Axel Christiernsson, which described how the EU Flower (European Ecolabel) requirements will be met by using anhydrous calcium thickener technology as the basis for an environmentally friendly Bio-grease.
The presentation on ‘Technology for sustainable grease development’ by Gareth Fish of Lubrizol was well attended. He explained that natural resources need to be protected, therefore greases with reduced environmental impact are now mandated in many areas such as marine and forestry. Research and development of new technologies for lubricants is necessary to meet the new mandatory Governmental requirements in Europe and North America.
The afternoon of the first day commenced with Siegfried Lucazeau of NYCO, with his presentation ‘To what extent do synthetic esters contribute to better sustainability of greases?’ This was followed by ‘Valorization of used cooking oil for the production of sustainable lubricating greases’ by George Dodos of Eldon’s. Next we saw ‘Estolides – A high performance renewable base fluid’ by Jacob Bredsguard from Biosynthetic Technologies, and finally, to close the
first day ‘Biodegradable grease based on cellulose derivatives’ by Emrah Parmak of OMV Petrol POAS.
Since the ELGI AGM had been promoted, we had all been waiting with anticipation at the prospect of a Masquerade Ball for the gala dinner. It was a truly grand affair, with some of the ladies wearing magnificent ball gowns and the gentlemen in splendid evening attire. Numerous masks of varying shapes and colours were available causing some amusing cases of mistaken identity.
of Technology presented ‘Modelling and experimental validation of grease flow’.
The last three presentations were: ‘New greases based on partially fluorinated lubricants (PFPE–PAGs)’ by Sara Rovinetti of Solvay Specialty Polymers, followed by ‘Rust never sleeps: An investigation of corrosion in grease lubrication’ presented by Joe Kaperick from Afton Chemical, and finally ‘Spherical molybdenum disulfide (SMD) in friction applications’ was presented by Yakov Epshteyn of Climax Molybdenum.
ELGI’s best paper committee has since unanimously selected the presentation ‘Valorization of Used Cooking Oil for the Production of Sustainable Lubricating Greases’ by Dr. George S. Dodos, ELDON’s S.A., Greece as winner of ELGI’s Best Paper Award 2016.
For me it was an incredible event. I strongly recommend that you book your place on the next ELGI AGM as soon as registration opens.
The second day started with ‘An application study on calcium sulfonate complex greases in roll neck bearings of hot rolling mills’ by Liu Jiwei of Sinopec. Then ‘The evaluation of oxidation resistance of lubricating greases using the rapid small scale oxidation test (RSSOT)’ by Steve Nolan from RS Clare.
Jonathan Evans of the Savant Group presented ‘An advanced technique for evaluating grease wear properties’. Then Apu Gosalia of Fuchs Petrolub presented ‘Sustainability in the Grease Industry: Principle – Process – Product’. Lars Westerberg from the Luleå University
A note for your diaries: The 29th ELGI AGM is 6-9 May 2017 and will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The theme is ‘Innovation – Future Developments in Lubricating Grease’ please submit your papers by Monday 31 October 2016. Do contact Carol Koopman carol@elgi.
demon.nl for further information.
Suzy Jarman Editor, Lube Magazine
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