2015 AGM Programme

 27th ELGI Annual General Meeting Energy Efficiency 18th – 21st April 2015 Hilton Diagonal Mar, Barcelona‐Spain Preliminary Programme Saturday 18th April 2015 Day 1 Registration Monday 20th April 2015 12:00 ‐ 18:00 Exhibitors set up 08:30 Opening Session & Business Meeting 12:00 ‐ 18:00 Registration ELGI Chairman ‐ Terry Dicken 08:50 WG Food Grade Lubricants Report Sunday 19th April 2015 Chairman Andre Adam – Fragol 09:00 WG Grease Particle Evaluation Report Registration Chairman Joe Kaperick – Afton 10:00 ‐ 18:00 Exhibitors set up Chemical 10:00 ‐ 18:00 Registration 09:10 WG Test Methods Report 12:00 ‐ 14:00 ELGI Board Meeting Chairman Olav Hoeger ‐ Shell Global Solutions Sunday 19th April 2015 09:20 WG Bio‐Based Grease Report Working Group Meetings Co‐Chair: Lou Honary ‐ Honary 09:00 Grease Particle Evaluation WG meeting Enterprises; George Dodos – Eldon’s 10:00 Food Grade Lubricants WG meeting 09:30 WG Railway Lubricants Report 11:30 Test Methods & Rheology WG meeting 13:00 Lunch (on your own) Chairman Henri Braun – ExxonMobil 09:40 NLGI presentation 14:00 Railway Lubricants WG meeting 15:30 Bio‐Based Greases WG meeting NLGI President – Bruce Urban 09:45 Grease production survey Chuck Coe – Grease Technology Sunday 19th April 2015 Solutions Welcome Reception 18:30 Welcome reception 10:00 Coffee 10:30 Yield stress and static friction. 13:30 Energy efficiency and lubrication A tribological examination of a mechanisms of polymer thickened greases rheological property Johan Leckner – Axel Christiernsson •
Werner Stehr ‐ Dr. Tillwich •
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Static friction and yield stress can only be polymer thickened greases compared with overcome by an external acting force greases based on soap thickeners? •
Both forces act against the direction of the observed based on different thickeners and A higher yield strength leads to an increased base oil viscosities •
transferred into reality? gearboxes 14:00 The development of energy efficient Johann‐Paul Stemplinger – FZG Institute greases What are the basic influences on the Gareth Fish – Lubrizol •
lubrication of spur gear boxes? •
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have a positive influence on energy efficiency 14:30 Coffee electricity production by wind and water Wilfried Bartz – TAE 15:00 Case studies in lubricating grease energy What needs to be considered when efficiency generating electricity by wind or water? Brian Kusak – Summit Lubricants Providing a review and an outlook to the •
coefficient of friction are considered to optimize a grease with respect to energy efficiency •
12:00 Lunch Variations in base oil viscositiy and future Friction modifiers are tested whether they supply of the gears 11:30 Electro mobility – Tribological aspects of •
What are the methods of measuring energy savings to be achieved with the right grease? Various base oils and thickeners of greases have a strong impact on the lubrication •
Where in industrial lubrication is energy efficiency most important? Different grease filling levels, speeds and torques are looked at •
Can the results obtained on the test rigs be 11:00 Energy efficiency of grease lubricated •
Energy savings in bearing test rigs are movement static friction •
What are the main differences between How can the test rig data be transferred into the real world? •
Results of a grease used in a steel mill show overall savings 15:30 Energy efficiency through sulphonate •
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10:00 Lubricants for vacuum and space complex greases in industrial applications applications E. Sayanna ‐ Indian Oil Corporation Amaya Igartua – Tekniker •
How can energy savings be measured in the real application? analysed under vacuum and ultrahigh Direct and indirect measurements are vacuum conditions? •
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How can tribochemical reactions be Friction, wear and tribodesorption Calcium sulphonate complex greases have properties can be determined using the been found to provide overall energy savings CATRI©‐test equipment in some industrial applications 10:30 Screen tests – Identifying the “Good 17:00 Coaches depart to Codorniu Actors” in your high temperature grease 18:15 Cocktails & Tour of Cava Cellars formulation 20:00 Gala Dinner & Entertainment Joseph P. Kaperick – Afton Chemical 23:00 Coaches return to the Hilton Hotel Cooperation •
How can statistical tools and test modelling help to speed up the development of Day 2 greases? •
Tuesday 21st April 2015 temperature performance of greases based 09:00 Energy aspects of lubricants development on various additive component with regard to the entropy of the resulting combinations system Alexander S. Medzhibovskiy – Qualitet Group •
Taking into account the aggregate state of each component in a lubricant •
What are the results with regard to the competition between the energy aspects 11:00 Coffee 11:30 Improvement on performance of overbased calcium sulfonate complex greases versus the entropy of the system? Ruiming Zhang ‐ Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC 09:30 Lubrication properties of Spherical •
respect to EP‐performance, water resistance greases and rust inhibition performance
Yakov Epstheyn – Climax Molybdenum Does Spherical Molybdenum Disulfide make the difference compared to conventional MoS2‐powder? •
What are the benefits Calcium sulfonate complex greases are known for their superior behaviour with Molybdenum Disulfide (SMD) in •
An example is given evaluating high •
It is shown that specific additives can improve the Stribeck Friction Coefficient which is directly related to energy efficiency 12:00 The effect of polymer additives on grease •
13:00 Reducing energy losses in electrical motors flow properties – previously unrecognized “low‐hanging‐
David DeVore – Functional Products fruits” Grease used in centralized lubrication Stefan Daegling – Shell Global Solutions •
systems must have proper flow when lubricating electrical bearings? characteristics under operating conditions
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What influence do polymeric additives have •
temperatures and at 0°C? Theoretical predictions are compared with laboratory results and field tests. 12:30 Grease solutions for the Lubrication Truck Wheel Bearing Gao Yanqing – Sinopec 13:30 Grab & Go Lunch End of Conference Running a field test for 200,000 km in truck wheel bearings is showing which thickener and NLGI‐class give the best results •
Focus of the paper is on tests with different base oils and thickeners. on the flow properties of greases at ambient •
What is the theory behind energy losses Used greases are analysed with respect to rheology, bleeding, anti‐leakage and tackiness ELGI: Hemonylaan 26, 1074 BJ Amsterdam Netherlands. (T)+31 20 6716162 carol@elgi.demon.nl www.elgi.org