CORRELATION BETWEEN LABORATORY AND ENGINE PERFORMANCE OF SYNTHETIC TURBINE OIL

Abstract

A paper presented to the Society of Automobile Engineers' Summer Meeting at Atlantic City in June, by T. F. Davidson and Lt. J. H. Way, (both of the Power Plant Laboratory, Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force,) discusses the correlation between laboratory and engine tests of synthetic gas turbine oils. Seven oils (designated A to G) were subjected to test and gas turbine evaluations were conducted using an advanced unit in the 10,000 pound thrust class, which rejects several thousand BTU's per minute to the oil and has the oil in intermittant‐intimate contact with surfaces over 600°F. Tests were conducted at 300°F. oil inlet for 100 hours, using five hour test cycles in accordance with MIL‐E‐5009. Oil additions amount to a complete oil change in the course of a 100 hours test.

Citation

(1956), "CORRELATION BETWEEN LABORATORY AND ENGINE PERFORMANCE OF SYNTHETIC TURBINE OIL", Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Vol. 8 No. 8, pp. 34-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb052409