Industrial gear lubricant additive package with biodegradable sulfur component
AssigneeThe Lubrizol Corporation
InventorsShubhamita Basu, James N. Vinci, Michael S. Wragg
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Abstract
The present technology includes an extreme pressure additive package formulated with a biodegradable sulfur component, which additive package can achieve suitable extreme pressure performance when formulated into a fully formulated industrial gear oil lubricant.
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An additive package for industrial gear lubricants which meets OECD 301B comprising at least one sulfurized olefin that delivers greater than about 0.80 wt % active sulfur as measured at 150° C in ASTM D1662, wherein the at least one sulfurized olefin comprises from about 0.5 to about 20 wt % of at least one sulfurized olefin that is readily or inherently biodegradable as measured according to OECD301B, and from about 0.01 to about 1 wt % of a non-biodegradable sulfurized olefin comprising at least one of di-isobutylene, butylene, isobutylene, or mixtures thereof, wherein the non-biodegradable sulfurized olefin comprises less than 0.10 wt %, based on the total weight of the industrial gear oil lubricant, of a highly active non-biodegradable sulfurized olefin derived from di-isobutylene and less than 0.25 wt %, based on the total weight of the industrial gear oil lubricant, of a nominally active non-biodegradable sulfurized olefin derived from isobutylene.
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