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Grease Chemistry: THICKENER STRUCTURE the Thickener Largely Determines the Grease Properties WEBINARS Jeanna Van Rensselar / Senior Feature Writer Grease chemistry: THICKENER STRUCTURE The thickener largely determines the grease properties. © Can Stock Photo / Morphart and © Can Stock Photo / urfingus Photo Stock / Morphart and © Can Photo Stock © Can GREASE WAS FIRST USED ON CHARIOT AXLES MORE THAN 3,000 YEARS AGO. Today more than 80% of bearings are lubricated with grease. Lithium soap greases, the most prevalent, were introduced in the early 1940s. Lithium complex greases, introduced in the 1960s, are becoming the most prevalent in North America. 26 Satellites are why TV and other signals are no longer blocked. With so many satellites in orbit, even MEET THE PRESENTER This article is based on a Webinar originally presented by STLE Education on Sept. 16, 2015. Grease Chemistry: Thickener Structure is available at www.stle.org: $39 to STLE members, $59 for all others. Paul Shiller received his doctorate in physical chemistry from Case Western Reserve University in Cleve- land, studying the surface reactions at fuel cell electrodes. He holds a master’s of science degree in chemical engineering also from Case Western Reserve University, where he studied the characteristics of diamond-like films. Shiller holds a master’s of science degree in chemistry studying the spectro-electrochemistry of sur- face reactions, and he received a bachelor’s of engineering degree in chemical engineering from Youngstown State University. Shiller joined The Timken Co. as a product development specialist for lubricants and lubrication in 2004. He then became a tribological specialist with the Tribology Fundamentals Group at the Timken Technology Center in North Canton, Ohio. In 2011 he moved to the University of Akron in an industrial innovation/collabora- Paul Shiller tion effort as a research scientist. He is currently a research assistant professor at the university working in the Timken Engineered Surfaces Laboratory. You can reach Shiller at [email protected]. A soap is, by definition, a metal salt complexing acids such as tallow, azelaic have to be reheated, recooled and test- of a fatty acid. The National Lubricat- acid and sebacic acid. Once the acid ed several times to get the consistency ing Grease Institute defines grease as, gets up to temperature (i.e., the fatty that is required for the product. Most “a solid to semi-solid product of disper- acid melts) the metal base is added. people think grease is primarily thick- sion of a thickening agent in a liquid The process is called saponification or ener, but in actuality it is mostly oil. lubricant. Additives imparting special soap making. So basically acid + base = Soap concentration in oil is typically properties may be included.”1 soap + water (see Figure 1). 10%-20%. Grease making is a relatively simple Then, because there needs to be time-temperature process: a one-pot very little water in lubricants, all the TYPES OF THICKENERS batch method. For a soap grease, fatty water is removed. Once that is done, The thickener defines the type of acids are added; if it is non-soap, the the material is cooled and gelled—this grease. There are three or four different other constituents are put into base oil. is the point where the mixture becomes types of materials that go into thicken- Common acids include the high-molec- a grease. Next the mixture is adjusted ers. The focus in this article is on or- ular-weight fatty acids, stearic acid and for consistency by adding base oil (ad- ganic thickeners such as lithium stea- 12-hydroxystearic acid and short-chain ditives might be added, as well). It may rate, sodium dodecylsulfate and diurea. There are simple greases and complex greases, depending on the types of fatty acids used. • Simple soaps. The main thickener used in grease is a metallic soap. These metals include lithium, alu- minum, sodium and calcium. • Complex soaps. Greases with com- plex soap thickeners are becoming more popular because of higher operating temperature and superi- or load-carrying abilities. Complex greases are made by combining the metallic soap with a complexing agent. The most widely used com- plex grease is lithium based, made with a conventional lithium soap and low-molecular-weight organic acid as the complexing agent. Figure 1 | Greasing-making process: basically acid + base = soap + water. a point on Earth adjacent to a mountain can likely “see” a satellite somewhere in the sky at any given time. 27 • Non-soaps. Non-soap thickeners • Aluminum. These have excellent make sense in special applications oxidative resistance and good wa- VAN DER WAALS FORCES* such as bentonite clay for high tem- ter resistance. But they have a low- Van der Waals Forces are rela- peratures where it does not melt.2 dropping point of only 110-115 C tively weak, short-range attractive (230-239 F). Their usage is gener- forces that act on neutral atoms and Common thickeners include: ally limited to operating conditions molecules and arise because of the less than 80 C (176 F). When these electric polarization induced in each Soaps (comprising about 90% of all greases overheat in bearings, they of the particles by the presence of greases used) cause sharp torque increases. other particles. These forces include • Lithium. Because lithium soaps are attraction and repulsion between at- Non-Soaps very efficient thickeners, lithium oms, molecules and surfaces, as well 12-hydroxystearate greases are the • Urea. A polyurea thickener is a reac- as other intermolecular forces. The most prevalent. Lithium greases pro- tion product of a diisocyanate with forces result from a transient shift vide good lubricity and have great monoamines and/or diamines. This in electron density. As the electrons shear stability, thermal resistance and class includes diurea, tetraurea, orbit the nucleus within an atom, the relatively low oil separation. Antioxi- urea-urethane and others. The ra- electron density may tend to shift dants are added to improve oxidative tios of the ingredients determine more to one side. This generates a resistance (see Figure 2). the characteristics of the thickener. transient charge (i.e., an induced • Calcium. These greases have bet- Since polyurea thickeners do not dipole) to which a nearby atom can ter water resistance than lithium contain metallic elements, they are either be attracted or repelled. When greases. They also have good shear ashless and, thus, more oxidatively the inter-atomic distance of two at- stability. However, they have low- stable. oms is greater than 0.6 nm, the force dropping points, do not have good • Organophilic clay. These thickeners is so weak that it is not strong enough operating temperature range and include minerals bentonite and hec- to be observed. When the inter-atomic can only be used in operating con- torite. The minerals are purified to distance is below 0.4 nm, the force ditions up to 110 C (230 F). remove non-clay material—ground becomes repulsive. • Sodium. These greases offer high- to the desired particle size—and * Wikipedia entry: Van der Wals Force. Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_ operating temperature, up to 175 C chemically treated to make the par- Waals_force. (347 F) but are confined to operat- ticles more compatible with organic ing conditions no higher than 120 chemicals. Clay thickeners have no C (248 F) because of poor oxidative defined melting point, so they can be used in high-temperature condi- stability and high oil bleed. They • Calcium sulfonate. This is not strictly tions. also are not very water resistant. a soap but is a metal salt of a sul- However, they do provide good lu- • Other. Other non-soap greases in- fonic acid detergent. These greases bricity and shear stability. clude teflon, mica and silica gel. have a high operating temperature and good water resistance. MICELLES Thickeners all self assemble into threadlike molecular structures, called micelles, that allow a compound that is normally insoluble to dissolve. Mi- celles form when soaps and detergents are added to water. The individual mol- ecule has a strongly polar head and a non-polar hydrocarbon chain tail. When this type of molecule is added to water, the non-polar tails aggregate into the center to form a ball-like structure Lithium Stearate Lithium 12-hydroxystearate (micelle). This aggregation is due to Van der Waals Forces between the mol- ecules (see Van der Waals Forces). Be- Figure 2 | Thickener fiber/micelle structure of two grease compounds. cause they are hydrophobic, the polar ÎÎÎÎÎ 28 • DECEMBER 2017 TRIBOLOGY & LUBRICATION TECHNOLOGY WWW.STLE.ORG ÎÎÎÎÎ head of the molecule faces outward for interaction with the water molecules Ionic Head Group on the outside of the micelle, while the Electrostatic and tail faces inward (see Figure 3). Hydrogen Bonding Since lubricants are non-polar environments, these micelles are re- Non-aqueous verse or inverse micelles. The non- Environment polar tails face outward and the ionic Aqueous Environment head faces inward. So it is the micelle structures in thickeners that allow the thickener to hold onto the lubricant (see Figure 4). Non-polar Tail Group Van der Waals Repulsion DARCY’S LAW AND OIL BLEED In 1856 Henry Darcy first studied and published flow through porous me- Figure 3 | Micelle concept showing ionic head/non-polar tail formation. Non-polar tails ag- dia. Darcy’s law is an equation that gregate into the center to form the ball-like micelle structure. describes the phenomenon. The law is based on the results of Darcy’s ex- Ionic Head Group periments on the flow of water through Non-aqueous Electrostatic Repulsion sand beds. It is a simple mathematical Environment statement that summarizes the follow- ing properties of water flow: • If there is no pressure gradient over a distance, the conditions are hy- drostatic (no flow occurs).
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