Lubricating Oils

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ORNL, Da Vinci Sign Licensing Agreement For Oil-Dilution Diagnostic Technology to Optimize Advanced Combustion Engines

October 21, 2009

UT-Battelle has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) technology for analyzing automotive engine oil to Da Vinci Emissions Services, Ltd., a Texas firm that specializes in a broad suite of combustion engine lubrication and emissions testing services and equipment. UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the Department of Energy.

The licensed invention, known as “Laser-Induced Fluorescence Fiber Optic Probe Measurement of Oil Dilution by Fuel,” was developed by James E. Parks and William P. Partridge of the Fuels, Engines, and Emissions Research Group in ORNL’s Energy and Transportation Science Division. The oil-dilution diagnostic grew out of a successful and ongoing CRADA, or cooperative research and development agreement, partnership between ORNL and Cummins Inc. The work is sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Office of Vehicle Technologies.

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Ricardo Launches Consortium to Evaluate Lubricant Challenges of Future Low Carbon Engine Technologies

July 30, 2009

Ricardo has launched a new consortium to evaluate the lubricant innovations required to enable implementation of many very promising low-friction and high-efficiency engine technologies and increasing use of biofuels.

While previous advances in engine technology have been based on separate and parallel developments by the fuels and lubricants industries, it is increasingly apparent that further significant improvements in diesel and gasoline engine fuel economy will require an integrated approach between automakers, Tier 1 equipment providers, oil companies and lubricant additive manufacturers, Ricardo said.

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Argonne and Three Area Universities Form Illinois Center for Advanced Tribology

October 31, 2008

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has teamed with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Northwestern University to form the Illinois Center for Advanced Tribology (ICAT), which will develop solutions to technical issues related to transportation, health and systems that operate in extreme environments.

Tribology is the science and technology of friction, lubrication and interactive surfaces in relative motion that are evident in virtually everything that moves, including human beings.

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