UNITI Mineral Oil Technology Forum


2015


Supported by the UKLA and a media partnership with Lube magazine, the forum met in Stuttgart between April 14 and 15. Again the quality of presentations this year was high with many thought-provoking questions raised across many technical areas.


Both Infineum and Nynas held pre-event seminars on the eve of the conference. Infineum’s seminar looked at key trends across different industrial sectors including passenger cars, marine and both light and heavy industry. In their view the key drivers of the sector remain the geo-political situation with stagnation in many western economies, the rise of shale gas as a route to energy self-sufficiency, and the impact of electric cars.


The forum opened on April 14 with a keynote presentation by Prof Dr-Ing Cornel Stan looking at future cars propulsion systems. He argued that although pure electric cars provide reduced emissions they are limited in their application and hybrid cars provide a better long-term solution. Dr Jorg Adolf from Shell Global BV provided an insight into future mobility with rising car ownership offset by fewer journeys as car mileage has already peaked in 2008/09. Later in the afternoon Nynas gave an engaging presentation on base oil blends as a replacement for Group I. In a market that is seeing a decline in Group I refining capacity, Dr Herbert Fruhmann argued that a blend or paraffinic and napthenic base oils could provide a base oil with Group I type characteristics for industrial applications.


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LUBE MAGAZINE NO.127 JUNE 2015


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