VBASE at 2025 STLE Annual Meeting

VBASE Team will be Exhibiting, Presenting Technical Data, and Offering CMF Presentation

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Exhibit HAll: Booth 608

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Our home base will be near the entrance at Booth 608. Come see our team! Attendees include:

Jeff DiMaio, PhD - CEO
Martin Greaves, PhD - CTO (presenting)
Stephen Eck - COO (presenting CMF)
Zach Hunt - Senior Applications Specialist
Michelle DiMaio - CMO
Ben Bergmann - Production & Logistics

Craig Mott - Senior Business Advisor

CMF Presentation - Mon, May 19

Commercial Marketing Forum II; Hanover C; Section 2B

Monday at 4:00 PM

VBASE® OIL Company: Secondary Polyol EsterTM Technology – Versatility Across the Lubricants Market to Deliver Commercial Value

Presenter: Stephen Eck - COO

 

ABSTRACT: VBASE® Oil company has commercialized a novel family of Secondary Polyol EsterTM (SPE®) base oils that are high performance, sustainable, API Group V synthetic base oils in the range ISOVG 32-460. SPE® base oils have been ‘Designed for Sustainability’ by linking building blocks that have high levels of biodegradability to create novel base oils that can help formulators meet the highest technical performance and environmental accreditation requirements. The presentation will highlight the unique properties and applications of SPE® base oils. This oxygen-rich family of base oils, with built in detergency, offers attributes such as unique thermophysical properties, excellent deposit control, hydrolytic stability, friction control and low heats of combustion making them a versatile tool for formulators of industrial, marine and automotive lubricants. We will expand upon these features and benefits and show how we see them translating into commercial value for the industry.

Technical Presentation - WEd, May 21

Environmentally Friendly Fluids-Synthetics I; 5E.

Wednesday at 9:40

Performance Aspects of Novel and Sustainable Secondary Polyol EsterTM Technology

Presenter: Dr. Martin Greaves, CTO

ABSTRACT: Synthetic esters are the most versatile of all common base oils used in our industry today. The inclusion of high levels of oxygen built into their molecular architecture has led to the creation of a novel family of Secondary Polyol EsterTM base oils. These oxygen-rich products offer some unique functionalities that enhance modern lubricant formulations. Their thermo-physical properties, in-built detergency and their excellent environmental performance will be presented. Concepts for using them as base oils or performance additives in industrial, marine and metalworking fluid formulations will also be highlighted. Their unique chemistry offers innovative solutions to developing new generations of sustainable lubricants.

Performance

The unique structure of VBASE SPE base oils enables outstanding physical properties, exceptional functional performance, and excellent environmental attributes. 

VBASE base oils exhibit excellent low temperature properties and high viscosity indices making them a good choice for formulating lubricants for all season performance. VBASE base oil's viscosity indices are typically much higher than hydrocarbon base oils and other synthetic esters of the same viscosity grade. This suggests they would be ideal for use in energy efficient lubricants when switching to a lower ISO-viscosity grade lubricant is practical. Energy efficiency gains can be further boosted due to their excellent low traction values under mixed-EHD conditions, thereby minimizing friction and energy losses in equipment and improving fuel consumption.

With a novel molecular structure, VBASE® saturated base oils provide excellent thermo-oxidative and hydrolytic stability in formulated lubricants. Unlike hydrocarbon oils which can degrade under high thermal stresses to form deposits and varnish, VBASE base oils have a significantly lower propensity to form deposits due to their oxygen-rich polar structure which helps solubilize any polar oxidation by-products, thereby keeping the lubricant and equipment clean and varnish free. 

Learn more here:  Oxidative Stability | Low Deposits (vbaseoil.com)

Lubricants formulated with VBASE® base oils are compatible with most conventional lubricants formulated with API Group I-IV hydrocarbon oils and Group V esters and PAGs. This fluid compatibility allows for a seamless change over in equipment from aged oils to lubricants with VBASE technology.  VBASE lubricants show good seal and paint compatibility (John Deere Fluid Resistance Testing and Caterpillar Fluid Immersion Resistance Testing). 

Designed for performance first, all VBASE® products are an excellent choice for formulating environmentally acceptable lubricants and suitable for use in many environmentally sensitive areas such as hydropower plants, agricultural, forestry, and marine environments. VBASE base oils have a high inclusion of renewable carbon (>50%), are biodegradable (>80% by OECD 301B), non-toxic, and do not bioaccumulate.

VBASE® base oils are manufactured from feedstocks that are widely available and this ensures stable production and supply. They are available in drum, tote, and bulk quantities.

VBASE unsaturated ester base oils offer high fire points making them an ideal choice for formulating fire resistant fluids. Moreover, they have similar VI values and pour points to classical polyol oleates (e.g., TMP trioleate) that are used widely in applications such as fire-resistant hydraulic fluids. However, because of their superior oxidation and hydrolytic stability, they are recommended as an alternative when longer life and more stability is needed in a fire-resistant fluid.

VBASE Base Oils | Fire Resistance | Hydraulic Fluids | FRF (vbaseoil.com)

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