Heavy duty diesel engine oil filterability

Book · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5899541

Overton, R; Rogers, W N

The effect of water contamination on the filtration of HD diesel engine oils has been investigated. A proposed industry laboratory ''glassware'' test was found to be sensitive to multigrade oils. Certain viscosity index improver chemistries proved more critical with some, but not all, detergent inhibitor systems. Experiments using a full-scale filter rig test, designed to simulate the laboratory test, confirmed the possibility of filter plugging. In the full-scale rig test however, the oil's detergent inhibitor chemistry was found to be the major factor in determining performance. Extension of the studies to field engines indicated that it was difficult to produce filter plugging with water contaminated new oils. Furthermore, oils which ''failed'' the laboratory and full-scale rig tests when new, would ''pass'' after a few hours of engine service. The results indicated that further work is required before bench tests can be established to predict filter plugging tendencies of water contaminated HD engine oils in service.

• OSTI ID: 5899541
• Report Number(s): TP-840344
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
023000 -- Petroleum-- Properties & Composition
33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330102* -- Internal Combustion Engines-- Diesel
ADDITIVES
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CHEMISTRY
DETERGENTS
DIESEL ENGINES
EMULSIFIERS
ENGINES
FIELD TESTS
FILTERS
FILTRATION
HEAT ENGINES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
IMPURITIES
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
LUBRICANTS
LUBRICATING OILS
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PLUGGING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLVENT PROPERTIES
SURFACTANTS
TESTING
VISCOSITY
WATER
WATER CHEMISTRY
WETTING AGENTS