Arctic transmission oil

Abstract

The tasks of the development of the Far North, the Arctic and the Antarctic require ensuring the operability of equipment units in low temperatures. To solve this problem, it is necessary to develop lubricants using new synthetic oils, a distinctive feature of which are low pour points. On the basis of polyethylsiloxane fluid and petroleum oil, we have developed a gear oil for the Arctic latitudes, which is efficient at temperatures down to -75 ° C (TMarktic). It is shown TMarktic’s antifriction properties are better than those of TSgip helicopter tail gear oil. The combined use of XPS and IR-Fourier methods for the analysis of the friction surface made it possible to conclude that the formation of the boundary film involves both antiwear additive molecules, which are part of the modified oil, due to the P-O, P=O, S=O bonds, so and molecules of polyethylsiloxane liquid due to C-O and Si-O bonds. Secondary surface structures are formed by TMarctic oil on the surface of iron oxide and include hydrocarbon and siloxane fragments. The high antiwear and extreme pressure properties of TMarktic are due to free sulfur and bound in iron sulfide.