There’s a reason: oil horizons

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport welcomes visitors to the center

Spring? this year in Turin was officially opened mejdunarodnyi? research Center? and technology? Petronas and in the summer we watched the work? krupnee?destroyed in Europe oil production and research center

At the opening of the center in March among the high gostei? participation four-room? Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton and his teammate Valtteri Bottas. My visit to the plant and the new laboratory and office center was more prosaic, but no less interesting – the specialists of Petronas Lubricants International showed how all types of oils are developed and produced, and told how Xia plant life and the scientific center are changing with the advent of the magnificent new RD house.

Petronas Lubricants is an international subsidiary of the Petronas Group, engaged in the production and sale of lubricants. Despite their formally small age – this year it celebrates its first decade – or more than competent in its field: the company was founded on the basis of the acquired Fiat slush enterprise FL curved, has almost a century of experience in the creation of motor oils and technical fluids. Large as a result? Asiatskii? player merged with the company? from more than a century of Europe? the legacy is skimmed. Or five global research centers? and technology?, the two largest in Turin, Italy and Malaya?Zia?skom Bangui, while turinskii? center platformo? research programs used worldwide.

Time-tested

Factory and tekhnologicheskii? center in Turin meet many tanks with the production of Petronas base oils, which are subsequently mixed with special additives and turned into motor oil under the Petronas brand. By the way, recently, or joined the elite? club makers? the level of base oils is 3+, which is the only two companies in the world. Despite solidnyi? age, over water produces about 100 thousand tons of oil per year, almost half of them – machine, the rest – oils and hydraulic fluids for agricultural?stvennoj?, stroitelnoi? technology and industry.

Through pipelines from the base tanks, oil is supplied to the mixing column of the workshop up to 30 tons. Many operations are carried out manually, but due to strict control, the required quality is ensured.

From the shops, where the conveyors pass barrels and cans of oil, turn to the finish, and then the store? products. Consequently, oils in containers of different sizes and colors are supplied to customers. The volume of the huge warehouse is updated about once a month and a half. Here, for example, you can see the steel gray barrel with techlusion? zvezdoi? – one of the key partners of Pli receives from this plant, packaged oil, and exports its tanks for the first and subsequent fill.

Next to the plant is a two-story red brick building, where the laboratory of the scientific center and departments. Part of the lab? quality control of materials and most likely will remain here. Other laboratories and classrooms have gradually moved to the new technology center, and the vacated space will be used to expand production.

Powerful impulse

Finally turn to the neighboring territory and enter into a new one? technology? and research? the center will develop the concept of technological solutions fluid Petronas is now bringing victory in the most prestigious races and allows you to transfer some of the technology in engine oils? mass production.

Nekochi?but light? hall of the new center meets the visitors? car Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport – here we test fuels and lubricants for the hybrid Mercedes-AMG W09 Eq Power+. All operational materials in Formula 1 (except fuel) are produced at the plant in Italy, the fuel on the track is from small?Zii. In the world of royal racing, the clock is changing dramatically – engines volume? F1 cars have caught up with conventional subcompacts. In addition, in the 2018 season, the team was required to use no more than three engines, and dey?tam jestkii? oil consumption rate – 0.6 l / 100 km. thanks to this, oils and other working fluids in car engines to work in more extreme conditions, and one of the main factors that will bring victory remains engine oil.

A unique opportunity to test your technical knowledge at the hippodrome, Petronas simply couldn't help but take advantage of it. Thanks to this Transit technology from the race track, in the civilian segment, many things have appeared, for example, the range of Syntium Petronas motor oils. Of course, this is not literally the same oil that is poured into the car, but still. However, the Petronas portfolio is an example of reverse movement – with the usual roads in motorsport. For example, engine oils for trucks near 0 watt-20, which took about ten years, brought two victories to the Petronas de Roy Iveco team in Dakar.

Present and future

Ask the company's experts if they are concerned about nadigai's new electric mobility and the resulting reduction in motor oils. The answer is that CCUs have been working on lubricants and coolants for about an hour, or studying the very complex issues of cooling hybrid and electric power plants. Temperature control in such systems is conventional means? or remote sensing systems of racing cars that constantly store or consume huge amounts of electricity – a relatively new problem, but it has already been successfully solved by the company's specialists.

In the new building, I also saw modern engine test benches?. Now spacious rooms allow to test them in combination with gearboxes, which allows to accurately simulate loads. On such boards, you use external engine cooling: the heat exchangers are located in the basement, and the temperature of the liquid, did you receive? in a motor controlled electronico?. Also, these stands together with transmisiei? using modern electrodynamic brakes.

… A huge house with an extravagant pylon is gradually filled with life. According to representatives? Have you invested in a new one? center $60 million will allow the company to maintain and develop leadership in the field of high technology? for oil through more efficient development and research?.