Solid anti-friction devices – materials therefor – lubricant or se – Lubricants or separants for moving solid surfaces and... – Heterocyclic ring compound; a heterocyclic ring is one...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-21
2001-05-22
Medley, Margaret (Department: 1714)
Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or se
Lubricants or separants for moving solid surfaces and...
Heterocyclic ring compound; a heterocyclic ring is one...
C508S545000, C508S551000, C508S556000, C508S561000, C508S579000, C508S580000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06235687
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to lubricating oils and to a method for providing anti rust properties to such oils by using a combination of additives.
2. Description of the Present Invention
It has been discovered that a lubricating oil possessing anti-rust properties can be prepared when using an acidic anti rust additive and an acid scavenger by employing a specific sequence of additive addition.
The lubricating oil contains a major portion of base oil. Base oils typically comprise mineral oils, preferably those mineral oils of high saturates content such as hydrotreated oils and white oils, and synthetic oils such as PAO and esters.
Examples of acid scavengers useful in the present invention are one or more mono or poly carbodiimide, glycidylether or epoxide, alkanol amines and arylamines. Useful mono carbodiimides include materials of the formula
R
1
—(N═C═N)—R
2
wherein R
1
and R
2
are the same or different and are hydrogen, hydrocarbyl groups or nitrogen and/or oxygen containing hydrocarbyl groups. Thus R
1
and R
2
can be C
1
-C
12
aliphatic groups, C
6
-C
18
aromatic groups or aromatic-aliphatic groups.
Thus, R
1
and R
2
may be for example hydrogen atom, alkyl groups such as methyl ethyl, propyl isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, pentyl, 2-methylbutyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, 2-ethylhexyl, nonyl, decyl, undecyl, dodecyl and the like, alkenyl groups such as propenyl, butenyl, isobutenyl, pentenyl, 2-ethylhexenyl octenyl and the like, cycloalkyl groups such as cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl methylcyclopentyl, ethylcyclopentyl and the like, aryl groups such as phenyl, naphtyl and the like, alkyl substituted aryl groups such as alkyl substituted phenyl groups for example toluyl, isopropylphenyl, diisopropylphenyl, triisopropylphenyl nonylphennyl and the like, aralkyl groups such as benzyl, phenetyl and the like. Examples of monocarbodiimides are the following: di-isopropyl-carbodiimide, di-n-butyl-carbodiimide, methyl-tert-butyl-carbodiimide, dicyclohexyl-carbodiimide, diphenyl-carbodiimide, di-p-tolyl-carbodiimide and 4,4′-didodecyl-diphenyl-carbodiimide. Of special advantage are diphenyl-mono-carbodiimides which carry on the phenyl moiety at the ortho-position to the carbodiimide group various substituent groups, e.g., alkyl, alkoxy, aryl and araLkyl radicals, such as 2,2′-diethyl-di-phenyl-carbodiimide, 2,2′-di-isopropyl-diphenyl-carbodiimide, 2,2′-diethoxy-diphenyl-carbodiimide, 2,6,2′,6′-tetra-ethyl-diphenyl-carbodiimide, 2,6,2′,6′-tetraisopropyl-di-phenyl-carbodiimide, 2,6,2′,6′-tetraethyl-3,3′-dichloro-di-phenyl-carbodiimide, 2,2′-diethyl-6,6′-dichloro-diphenyl-carbodiimide, 2,6,2′,6′-tetra-isobutyl-3,3′-dinitro-diphenyl-carbodiimide and 2,4,6,2′,4′,6′-hexaisopropyl-diphenyl-carbodiimide.
Suitable polycarbodiimides are, for example, tetramethylene-&ohgr;,&ohgr;′- bis-(tert-butyl-carbodiimide), hexamethylene-&ohgr;,&ohgr;′-bis-(tert-butyl-carbodiimide), tetramethylene-&ohgr;,&ohgr;′-bis-(phenyl-carbodiimide) and those compounds which may be obtained by heating aromatic polyisocyanates such as 1,3-di-isopropyl-phenylene-2,4-di-iso-cyanate, 1-methyl-3,5-diethyl-phenylene-2,4-diisocyanate and 3,5,3′,5′-tetra-isopropyl-diphenylmethane4,4-di-isocyanate, in the presence of tertiary amines, basically reacting metal compounds, carboxylic acid metal salts or non-basic organometal compounds at a temperature of at least 120° C., according to the process of German Patent No. 1,156,401.
Glycidylether acid scavengers are of the general formula:
wherein R is hydrocarbon.
Epoxides can be cyclic, acyclic, and polymeric in nature. Cyclic epoxides include the mono- and bis-cyclohexene oxides, monoepoxyethylene cyclohexanes. Acyclic epoxides include epoxidized vegetable oils, epoxidized ester (e.g., ethyl-cis-9,10-epoxy stearate and glycidyl stearate), and the aforementioned glycidyl ethers. Polyepoxy novalacs, polyglycidyl ethers, polyepoxy-cyclohexanes, and polyepoxy esters are examples of polymeric epoxides. Typical useful epoxides are the cycloaliphatic epoxides generally of the formula:
where R is a hydrocarbyl group which may contain functional groups such as esters, ethers, ketones, aldehydes, additional epoxy groups, amines, amides, imides, thiolates, etc. Other useful epoxides include epoxides exemplified by:
Carbodiimide, glycidylether and epoxide acid scavengers are materials well known in the literature and the terms will be used herein without further definition.
Alkanol amines include
wherein R′ and R″ are the same or different and are selected from hydrogen, C
1
-C
10
alkyl groups, more preferably C
1
-C
3
alkyl groups.
Other suitable alkanol amines include
wherein R′″, in each instance, is independently selected from C
1
-C
10
hydrocarbyl, preferably C
1
-C
10
alkyl, more preferably C
1
-C
3
alkyl, and R′
v
is selected from hydrogen or the group (R′″)—OH where R′″ is as previously defined.
Alkoxylated tertiary amities are also suitable such as the methoxylated tertiary amines, ethoxylated tertiary amine, propoxylated tertiary amines. Arylamines such as P-Toluidine, p-phenylene diamine can also be used as acid scavengers as can N,N,N′,N′ tetraalkyl 1,8 naphthylene diamine.
The anti rust additive used on the present invention is any acidic anti rust additive such as carboxylic acid or carboxylic acid producing compounds. Thus, included in the description of acidic anti rust additives are carboxylic acids and carboxylic acid producing compounds such as their salts, amides, imides, anhydrides, acid halogenides, esters, and also carbamic acids or carbamic acid producing compounds such as carbamides and carbamates, and also oxo acids and salts of oxo acids of sulfur or phosphorous or compounds which produce such oxo acids. Non-limiting examples of such oxo acids include sulphinic acid, sulphonic acid, sulphonamides, sulphuric acid, sulphurous acid, thiosulfuc acid, disulfuric acid, dithionoic acid, polythionic acid, phosphinic acid, phosphonic acid, phosphoric acid. The effectiveness of these rust inhibitors is related to the affinity of the acid functionality for the metal surface.
As would be readily apparent, the presence of acid scavengers in a formulation containing acid based anti rust additives would be expected to have a negative impact on the effectiveness of the acidic anti-rust additive.
It has been discovered, however, that the anti rust properties of a lubricating oil containing acidic anti rust additives and acid scavengers can be preserved by employing a specific blending procedure in the production of the lube oil formulation.
Specifically, anti rust properties are preserved when the acid scavenger is added to the formulated oil before the acidic anti rust additive is added and the resulting mixture containing the acid scavenger and acidic anti-rust additive is not subjected to any direct heating. Thus, in preparing a formulated oil, all other additives are added to the base oil first, with any necessary heating being employed to effect solubilization. Direct heating is then stopped and the acid scavenger is then added to the formulation and the acidic anti rust additive is subsequently added with no additional direct heating. Additional direct heating is to be avoided so as to avoid local surface hot spots at which reaction between the acid scavenger and the acidic anti rust agent would occur. Preferably the oil is permitted to cool or is held at a bulk oil temperature of about 15 to 100° C., preferably about 40° C. to 85° C., most preferably about 45° C. to 60° C. Formulations prepared using the recited sequential addition procedure were found to pass the ASTM D665B rust test. The ASTM D665B rust test procedure consists of placing a metal pin in a beaker which contains the lube oil formulation to be evaluated and synthetic sea water with stirring at 60° C. After 24 hours the pin is eval
Hayter William Nelson
Nadasdi Todd Timothy
Allocca Joseph J.
Exxon Research and Engineering Company
Medley Margaret
Toomer Cephia D.
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