Manufacturing oil

As fabrication oils and process oils ( English "processing oils" ) are mineral oil products of various kinds with a boiling point (see also: boiling point ) above referred to of 180 ° C, to the extent they are used for the preparation of products of the chemical and allied industries.

They are either aids in production or a remaining component in a finished product that is not itself a mineral oil product .

Manufacturing oils are z. E.g .: carrier oils for printing inks and extender oils for rubber compounds . In contrast, oils that z. B. are used for the production of lubricating greases , not in the group of manufacturing oils.

A lubricant that is required for the production of plastic parts is to be regarded as a process oil, as it enables their production.

Application basics

Manufacturing oils must be chemically and physically compatible with other components to be incorporated into the product. They must not cause any undesirable side effects.

For example, oils that are incompatible with plastics or rubber can escape from the finished mixtures, so that the deformability and other physical properties change. In the worst case, the required flow properties ( viscosity ) cannot be achieved in printing inks . Negative effects are possible with adhesive and resin mixtures due to undesirable swelling behavior .

In contrast to lubricants, the "lubricating properties" of the oil can be neglected in the field of manufacturing oils. For this, the chemical and physical properties of the oil come to the fore. Both depend on the structure of the oils and are expressed by analytical characteristics. Some of them are interrelated.

The correct selection of the manufacturing oils therefore requires a preoccupation with their structural and chemical structure, with the properties derived from them and with the analytical data by which an oil is characterized.