Application of a Split Lubrication Gasoline Engine to the Screening and Understanding of Friction Modifier Behaviour
Journal Article
2011-01-2134
ISSN: 1946-3952, e-ISSN: 1946-3960
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Citation:
Nattrass, S. and Davenport, A., "Application of a Split Lubrication Gasoline Engine to the Screening and Understanding of Friction Modifier Behaviour," SAE Int. J. Fuels Lubr. 5(1):511-522, 2012, https://doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-2134.
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English
Abstract:
A series of viscous and surface friction modifier additives has been studied in a
modified SI engine with separable valve train lubrication. From the results, it
has been possible to classify the hydrodynamic or boundary lubrication nature of
the observed effects for a series of lubricant additives. It is shown that the
frictional benefit of a given additive depends not only on the engine operating
condition but also on the engine components on which it is acting. For some
additives a fuel economy benefit can switch to a disbenefit as operating regime
changes and a different aspect of the additive properties becomes important.
Such observations are rationalised in the context of conventional lubrication
theory.