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AdBlue - a cleaning agent with no residual alcohol
Year of publication: 2023
It goes without saying that the idea of 32.5% urea in one litre of fluid doesn’t sound appealing. AdBlue is produced
purely industrially while human urine, on the other hand, is anything but clean. It contains 3-4% urea,
protein, other impurities – and often, residual alcohol, too.
- Acids in the oil
- AdBlue - a cleaning agent with no residual alcohol
- Air and foam in oil
- Air-release properties & foaming tendency
- Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (AES)
- Cloudpoint & Pourpoint
- Cold Filter Plugging Point (CFPP)
- Density temperature profile (DTP)
- Dispersancy
- Filter deposits
- Fire-resistant HFC hydraulic fluids
- Glycol determination
- Increased oil consumption
- IR Index
- Low SAPS or low ash
- Lubricants in the food industry
- Nitration
- NN, AN and BN
- Oil aging
- Oil condition
- Oxidation
- Oxidation index – Modern lubricants age differently
- Oxidationsinhibitoren (Antioxidants) – Elixirs of life for modern lubricants
- Phenolic inhibitor
- Pour point and solidifying point
- PQ index
- Refractive index
- Strong Acid Number
- Sulfation
- The wide range of "synthetic lubricants" – types, properties and applications
- Trend analyses - An investment in the future
- VI - The viscosity index
- Viscosity
- Viscosity-temperature profile (VTP)
- Wear metals in lubricants