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Article: Plant Engineering Magazine's exclusive cross-reference product guide for synthetic lubricants. (Buyers Guide)
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- Plant Engineering
- Article date:
- October 17, 1991
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Synthetic lubricants offer a number of operational advantages over mineral-based products across a wide array of applications, including bearings, gearboxes, compressors, vacuum and diaphragm pumps, rotary shaft seals, valves, hydraulic systems, and instrumentation. Synthetics are the logical choice if-.
Peformance demands are beyond petroleum product capabilities
Equipment failure or excessive downtime is traceable to ineffective lubrication products or practices
High or low temperatures are encountered -75 to about 500 F)
Situations exist in which conventional products are ineffective.
Some manmade lubricants cause less metal ...