LUBRICATING LARGE DIESEL ENGINES WITH EMULSION AND NON‐EMULSION TYPE OILS

Abstract

IN A PAPER TO THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, at their Oil and Gas Power Conference, Philadelphia in May, 1958, a paper by J. E. Cox and P. D. Hobson, Engineers of the Shell Oil Company, U.S.A. provided some valuable information regarding the lubrication of large diesel engine cylinders. The authors describe field trials using radioactive tracers to map the route and extent of combustion‐product contamination of crankcase oil and go on to state how this evidence was employed to provide orderly development of a highly basic emulsion lubricant which gave outstanding performance in engines using low quality fuel.

Citation

(1958), "LUBRICATING LARGE DIESEL ENGINES WITH EMULSION AND NON‐EMULSION TYPE OILS", Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Vol. 10 No. 8, pp. 20-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb052532