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The right lubricant prevents corrosion, friction, and wear. Helping equipment do its job longer, consistently, and effectively.
In developing tailor-made lubricants for extreme operating conditions where conventional lubricants are just not good enough.
Heavy loads can squeeze out general purpose lubricant, leading to metal on metal and premature failure.
Solution
Requires a lubricant with a high load-carrying capacity, high content of solid lubricants, and high viscosity with antiwear additives to significantly reduce the coefficient of friction and amount of wear under varying bearing clearances, circularity, and cylindricity.
Extreme temperature conditions include both extremely high or low temperatures. Poor-quality grease hardens in low temperatures and bleeds at high temperatures.
High Temperature:With increased temperature the lubricant can carbonize and reduces oil film thicknesses, resulting in stress on frictional surfaces that can lead to part wear, shaft seizure, and other serious issues. A five-degree rise in temperature can cause severe damage.
Low Temperature: At extremely low temperatures, the lubricant can reach a point where it freezes and will no longer flow. This limit is called pour point.​ In circulation systems, the viscosity becomes so high at that point that the oil flow is restricted. The components will then die of lubrication, leading to an early death of metal on metal.​
Most general-purpose base oils and greases can withstand moderate temperature drops at 0 ° C and much less than 10 ° C without greatly reducing performance​
Solution
Many factors can affect temperature, but the most common are the use of lubricants of the wrong viscosity, excessive loads, speeds (or both), dirt and dust buildup on components, or contaminated lubricants.
Thermal stability refers to the ability of lubricants to resist breakdown at high temperatures. Poor thermal stability can result in sludge, deposits and increased viscosity.
Viscosity is a measure of an oil's resistance to flow. It decreases (thins) with increasing temperature and increases (or thickens) with decreased temperature. These conditions explain why an oil will flow much more easily in summer at a temperature of 25 degrees C (78 degrees F), than it will flow in winter at minus 25 degrees C (minus 13 degrees F).
Not all oils respond in the same way to a given change in temperature. Many oils contain an ability to resist changes in viscosity due to a change in temperature. This property is referred to as the oil's viscosity index or VI. The higher the VI of an oil, the less its viscosity is altered by temperature changes.
Temperature resistant synthetic oils that are specifically developed to provide a lubricant with superior properties for these types of conditions.
The # 1 cause of equipment failure is contamination. 75 percent of all failures related to lubrication in systems where close tolerances of machine parts are critical. Contaminants can combine with grease and oil to cause a lapping compound that can damage part surfaces/ wear away rotating parts.
Dirt and dust particle sizes that cause the most damage are those that cannot be seen with the naked eye. These contaminants are in the size range of 4 to 40 micrometers
Solution
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When metal parts are in constant contact with each other, the last thing they need is water since it can cause the parts to rust and fall apart. This is why you need a water-resistant grease that forms a protective film on the applied surface to keep the water out.
Solution
Oxidation stability refers to the ability of a lubricant to resist the chemical combination with oxygen. It can result in the creation of sludge deposits and increased viscosity.
Oxidation stability is accelerated by heat, light, metal catalysts, acids formed by water contamination and other contaminants.
95% of all lubricant applications do not require high-performance lubricants in order to be effective.
Centrolium concentrates on the 5% with harsh and extreme conditions - like mining, aluminum, and steel. For these situations, the difference between one lubricating material and another is the difference between the successful operation of a machine and failure.
Centrolium lubricants are better at protecting equipment than typical off the shelf varieties. We tailor requirements to specific customer needs and run in small batch quantities.
Centrolium's will provide the analytics to determine what components of your current lubricants are degrading the fastest and custom design a solution to extend equipment life, reduce waste, increase productivity, providing valuable financial, operational and sustainability-related benefits.
Solving Problems with science
Our technical consultants will partner with you to access every piece of equipment to identify areas of improvement.
Lubricants...small cost, HUGE returns!
The cost of lubricants is a small percentage of maintenance expenditure, but if selected effectively, can contribute to larger savings. Equipment will last longer, run more efficiently and more reliably, and you won’t replace equipment or components prematurely.
Total Maintenance Cost
Total cost destined to lubrication​
Reduce cost due to the correct selection of lubricant
Exceeded cost due to wrong lubricant selection
Our source of inspiration for creating unique solutions is a deep understanding of:
Technical Support
Promoting longer equipment life and helping to extend lubrication intervals
There is no perfect formulation that satisfies the needs of every application. We use the science of lubrication to choose a formulation that is most suitable for your application. Centrolium lubricants deliver tailored products to achieve a particular performance level. Our strong technical ability allows our customers to achieve greater productivity.
We maintain a continuing program of product development and testing to ensure all products satisfy the needs of our customers.
Our state of the art facilities include
Research and development
Allows us to be able to break the traditional lubricant industry paradigms by developing new technology
Tribology
Tribology experts replicate the operating conditions that different mechanical elements are subject to and provided optimal lubricant for your equipment.
Spectrophotometry
Spectrophotometry experts help visualize a unique profile for raw materials and finished products, in order to validate the quality and repeatability of our process.
Rheology
Rheology experts characterize the molecular structure of products in order to be able to understand it’s behavior under external forces. This information allows us to predict with great precision the performance of our products working in your machinery.
Sustainability
An increasing demand for environmentally acceptable lubricants lead researchers to look to natural raw materials both vegetable and animal oils as an alternative to petroleum-based. These plant-based products are sustainable, non-toxic, renewable and biodegradable and can replace petroleum-derived products in industrial applications.
Potentially lessening energy and lubricant consumption, along with the need for lubricant disposal, supports your efforts to limit the environmental footprint of your operation and reducing environmental impact.
Analysis
Analysis and documentation of the unique operating conditions.
Prototyping
Recommendation
Preliminary Testing
Implementation
Monitoring
What can we test and what problems can we help you detect and prevent
Our services are the future of machinery reliability where failure is not an option. Based at our state of the art laboratory based in Mexico we test oils and greases.
Lubricating Oils
Lubricating Greases
We are high-quality lubricant technology solution provider that help solve the problems that arise from friction and wear. Lubrication technicians in the heavy industry sector have long known and appreciated the advantage of synthetic lubricant technology.
Using best practices and with our manufacturing partner Interlub, we are attacking the solution head-on. Focusing on the development of specialized high performance lubricants (oils, greases, pastes and coatings), found in heavy industry.
Centrolium will provide the analytics to determine what components of your current lubricants are degrading the fastest and custom design a bio-synthetic oil to extend lubricant life, reduce waste, increase productivity and provide synthetic biodegradable oils to help you meet your environmental responsibility and sustainability commitments.
In developing tailor-made lubricants for extreme operating conditions where conventional lubricants are just not good enough.