Elastohydrodynamic lubrication properties and friction behaviors of several ester base stocks

Yifeng HE; Thomas J. ZOLPER; Pinzhi LIU; Yuzhen ZHAO; Xingliang HE; Xuejin SHEN; Hongwei SUN; Qinghua DUAN; Qian WANG

doi:10.1007/s40544-015-0090-6

Friction 2015, 3(3): 243-255 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-015-0090-6

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Elastohydrodynamic lubrication properties and friction behaviors of several ester base stocks

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Yifeng HE^{¹^,²}, Thomas J. ZOLPER^³, Pinzhi LIU^², Yuzhen ZHAO^{²^,⁴}, Xingliang HE^², Xuejin SHEN^{²^,⁵}, Hongwei SUN^¹, Qinghua DUAN^¹, Qian WANG^²(

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¹ Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, SINOPEC, Beijing 100083, China

³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Platteville WI 53818, USA

² Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 60208, USA

⁴ Chongqing Branch of Lubricant Company, SINOPEC, Chongqing 400039, China

⁵ School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China

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friction, elastohydrodynamic lubrication, viscosity, ester, synthetic base stocks

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HE Y, ZOLPER TJ, LIU P, et al. Elastohydrodynamic lubrication properties and friction behaviors of several ester base stocks. Friction, 2015, 3(3): 243-255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-015-0090-6

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This paper reports a series of studies on the lubricant properties, elastohydrodynamic film thickness, and coefficients of friction of several commercially available ester base stocks, i.e., diisooctyl phthalate (DIOP), diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP), diisotridecyl phthalate (DITDP), diisooctyl sebacate (DOS), diisotridecyl sebacate (DTDS), trihydroxymethylpropyl trioleate (TMPTO), and pentaerythritol tetraoleate (PETO). The results include densities and viscosities from 303 to 398 K, and elastohydrodynamic lubricant film thicknesses and friction in the boundary, mixed and full-film lubrication regimes measured at several temperatures, loads, and speeds. These ester base stocks have different lubrication abilities owing to their chain lengths, geometric configurations, and molecular rigidity. This study provides quantitative insight into the use of ester-based lubricants for low friction through the entire lubrication regime (boundary to full film) by utilization of suitable type and size of the ester base stocks.

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Elastohydrodynamic lubrication properties and friction behaviors of several ester base stocks

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Yifeng HE^{¹^,²}, Thomas J. ZOLPER^³, Pinzhi LIU^², Yuzhen ZHAO^{²^,⁴}, Xingliang HE^², Xuejin SHEN^{²^,⁵}, Hongwei SUN^¹, Qinghua DUAN^¹, Qian WANG^²(

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¹ Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, SINOPEC, Beijing 100083, China

³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Platteville WI 53818, USA

² Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 60208, USA

⁴ Chongqing Branch of Lubricant Company, SINOPEC, Chongqing 400039, China

⁵ School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China

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Keywords: friction, elastohydrodynamic lubrication, viscosity, ester, synthetic base stocks

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Received: 19 May 2015

Revised: 22 August 2015

Accepted: 31 August 2015

Published: 10 September 2015

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Yifeng He and Yuzhen Zhao would like to acknowledge the support from Visiting Scholar Project of China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec). The authors would like to thank Center for Surface Engineering and Tribology at Northwestern University, USA, for research support. The Northwestern authors would also like to acknowledge the support from US Department of Energy (DE-EE0006449). The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.

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