EP0241877A2 - Phosphazene enthaltende Schmierfettzusammensetzungen - Google Patents

Phosphazene enthaltende Schmierfettzusammensetzungen Download PDF

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EP0241877A2
EP0241877A2 EP87105333A EP87105333A EP0241877A2 EP 0241877 A2 EP0241877 A2 EP 0241877A2 EP 87105333 A EP87105333 A EP 87105333A EP 87105333 A EP87105333 A EP 87105333A EP 0241877 A2 EP0241877 A2 EP 0241877A2
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  • the present invention relates to lubricating grease compositions, and to alkali metal soap lubricating grease compositions in particular.
  • Lubricating greases have been defined by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) to be solid to semi-fluid lubricants which include a thickening agent dispersed in a liquid lubricant. Although this definition is of relatively recent origin, samples of fat and lime taken from the axle of Pharaoh Tutankamen's chariot from about 1400 BC indicate that lubricating greases have been known since antiquity.
  • ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
  • the thickening agents used in greases may be those, such as soaps, which have been known for many years, or may be more recently developed materials, such as polyureas. These thickening agents are generally classified as soap or non-soap thickening agents, and the greases resulting from their combination with a lubricating fluid are usually classified accordingly.
  • Soap thickening agents generally are metal salts of relatively large organic acids such as myristate, linoleate, linolenate, laurate, stearate, oleate, palmitate, benzoate, and azelate, although some salts of relatively small organic acids, such as acetates or propionates, may be included. Mixtures of different acids may also be used.
  • many soaps are derived from tallow, which contains a mixture of aliphatic molecules such as stearin, palmitin and olein. The number of carbon atoms in the organic portion of the soap and the degree of its saturation affect the thickening properties of the soap, with soaps which include organic moieties having 12 to about 18 carbon atoms usually having thickening properties appropriate for most grease applications.
  • Soap thickeners may also be complex soaps.
  • Complex soaps may be defined as soaps wherein the soap crystal or fiber is formed by the co-crystallization of two compounds, the normal soap and a complexing agent, such as wherein a single metal ion is complexed with two or more dissimilar organic moieties.
  • a long chain moiety such as stearic acid
  • a relatively short chain moiety such as acetic acid
  • acetic acid may be complexed with the same metal ion, such as in calcium stearate acetate.
  • a di- or tri- basic moiety such as azelaic acid
  • a soap such as lithium 12-hydroxy stearate
  • more than one metal ion such as in dilithium azelate.
  • Mixtures of different soaps may also be used in the same lubricating grease composition.
  • a variety of different metal ions may be used in making soap thickening agents, such as aluminum, cadmium, cobalt, stontium, nickel, mercury, molybdenum, lead, barium, calcium, sodium and lithium ions.
  • the properties of these metal ions also affect the properties of the thickening agent and the lubricating greases in which they are used, with these properties in turn determining the applications for which a particular grease is appropriate.
  • sodium greases may be used under conditions of high temperature and isolation from water, such as in gear cases.
  • Lithium greases are useful over a wide range of temperatures, are water resistant, and are frequently used as general purpose automotive greases, such as to lubricate ball joints, universal joints and wheel bearings.
  • Aluminum complex soap greases may be used in situations, such as oven door hinges, roller bearings and hoists in steel mills, where resistance to oxidation and to oil separation at high temperatures and pressures is important.
  • Non-soap thickening agents are generally of two types. These types are (1) inorganic gelling agents, and (2) organic thickeners. Inorganic gelling agents are usually substances such as carbon black and modified, oleophilic clays such as Bentonite, with clay type greases usually being non-melting and having good heat resistance. organic thickeners are organic compounds, such as ureas or polyureas, Teflon, polyethylene and terephthalamic acid, and may result in a grease having a high melting point and an extended grease life at elevated temperatures.
  • inorganic gelling agents are usually substances such as carbon black and modified, oleophilic clays such as Bentonite, with clay type greases usually being non-melting and having good heat resistance.
  • organic thickeners are organic compounds, such as ureas or polyureas, Teflon, polyethylene and terephthalamic acid, and may result in a grease having a high melting point and an extended grease life at elevated temperatures.
  • Lubricating grease compositions typically contain one or more additives to retard part corrosion and lubricant degradation in order to prolong the mechanism's useful life.
  • Typical grease additives include antioxidants, extreme pressure agents, antiwear agents, and corrosion inhibitors.
  • examples of such additives include zinc oxide, 2,6-di-t-butyl phenol, alkyl succinic acids, dinonyl naphthane sulfonates, tricresyl phosphate, and molybdenum disulfide.
  • U.S. Patent No. 3,234,304 and No. 3,316,330 to Nichols disclose cyclic phosphazenes having phenoxy and fluoroalkyl phenoxy substituents as being useful as working fluids, lubricants, chemical intermediates and plasticizers.
  • U.S. Patent No. 3,136,727, also to Nichols discloses a penta- phenoxy-mono (phenoxy phenoxy) substituted cyclic phosphazene. This phosphazene is also alleged to be useful as a working fluid, lubricant, chemical intermediate and plasticizer.
  • U.S. Patent No. 2,109,491; No. 2,192,921; and No. 2,214,769 to Lipkin also disclose various substituted pnospnazenes as additives to lubricant compositions. These phosphazenes may be substituted by a variety of organic compounds, such as alcohols, phenols, mercaptans and amines. Lipkin discloses these phosphazenes may be added to lubricants such as mineral oils containing fatty oils, fatty acids, metallic soaps, sulfur or combined chlorine.
  • the present invention is a lubricating grease composition which comprises a lubricating fluid, an alkali metal soap, and a cyclic phosphazene.
  • Alkali metal soaps of sodium and lithium are preferred, with lithium and lithium complex soaps being most preferred.
  • the cyclic phosphazene be one described by the general formula: wherein R is selected from a group consisting of substituted and unsubstituted phenoxy moieties, substituted and unsubstituted alkoxy moieites, the corresponding thio moieties, amino moieties and mixtures thereof, and n is an integer equal to 3 to about 4.
  • Phosphazenes wherein R is selected from the group consisting of phenoxy, alkyl substituted phenoxy, aryl substituted phenoxy, and C 11 -C 30 alkyl moieties and mixtures thereof are particularly preferred.
  • the present invention is a lubricating grease composition which comprises a lubricating fluid, an alkali metal soap, and a cyclic phosphazene.
  • the lubricating fluid may be a vegetable, animal, synthetic or mineral oil, or a mixture thereof, such as linseed oil, cottonseed oil, silicone oil, alkyl benzenes, phosphate esters, fluorinated oils, polyglycols and diesters.
  • mineral oils such as naphthenic, paraffinic, aromatic, and naphthenic/paraffinic mixed base oils, and synthetic materials such as di-isooctyl azelate, di-2-ethylhexyl sebacate, di-2-ethylhexyl azelate, dibasic polyesters, neopentyl polyol esters, polyalphaolefins and alkyl benzenes are preferred.
  • Mineral oils, and especially naphthenic, paraffinic and naphthenic/paraffinic mixed base oils are particularly preferred.
  • cyclic phosphazene used in the composition of the present invention may be described by the general formula:
  • n may be equal to 3 to about 4, so that the phosphazene is a cyclic trimeric, tetrameric or pentameric phosphazene. Trimeric and tetrameric phosphazenes are preferred, with trimeric phospha-zenes being most preferred. Mixtures of different phosphazenes may also be used. For example, many commercially available phosphazene compositions contain a mixture of trimeric and tetrameric phosphazenes.
  • R is selected from the group consisting of substituted and unsubstituted alkyl moieties such as ethyl, methyl, propyl, butyl, oleyl, dodecyl, nonyl, and 2-chloroethyl, substituted and unsubstituted alkoxy moieties such as methoxy, propoxy, ethoxy, and tri-fluoro ethoxy, substituted and unsubstituted phenoxy moieites such as phenoxy, m-methylphenoxy, p-t-butylphenoxy, m,p-dimethoxyphenoxy, m-methoxyphenoxy, 2,4,6-trichlorophenoxy, m-ethoxyphenoxy, m,p-di(trifluoromethyl)phenoxy, m-chlorophenoxy, 2,4,6-trimethylphenoxy, (methylphenyl)phenoxy, phenylcarbinoxy, naphthoxy, thio
  • R may be selected from the mercaptan equivalents of phenoxy and alkoxy moieties.
  • the alkyl moieties are those having about 6 to about 30 carbon atoms, such as nonyl and dodecyl
  • the alkylphenoxy and alkylphenylthio moieties are those having about 7 to about 30 carbon atoms such as p-dodecylphenoxy.
  • R may also be selected from mixtures of alkyl, phenoxy, alkoxy, phenylthio, alkylthio and amino moieties, so that the phosphazene may be substituted by two, three, four or more different moieties.
  • R be selected from the group consistently of phenoxy, alkyl-substituted phenoxy, aryl-substituted phenoxy and C 11 -C 30 alkyl moieties and mixtures thereof, such as nonyl, dodecyl, phenoxy, p-methylphenoxy, m-methylphenoxy, p-ethylphenoxy, m,p-dimethyl- phenoxy, phenylphenoxy, and phenoxyphenoxy. Phenoxy, alkyl-substituted phenoxy moieties and mixtures thereof are most preferred.
  • Each phosphorus atom in the phosphazene preferably is substituted by two organic substituents, so that the cyclic phosphazene is completely substituted with one or more organic moieties.
  • the lubricating grease may contain small amounts of phosphazene which are incompletely substituted.
  • organic substituted phosphazenes are usually made from phosphazenes which are substituted by chlorine, chlorine is usually present in those phosphazenes wherein organic substitution has been incomplete.
  • these incompletely substituted phosphazenes preferably are present, if at all, in relatively small amounts such as less than 10% by weight and more preferably less than 5% by weight of the total phosphazene content of the lubricating grease.
  • Cyclic phosphazenes suitable for use in the lubricating grease of the present invention are available commercially or may be prepared by processes known in the art. Examples of such processes may be found in those references cited above. In the alternative, suitable phosphazenes may be prepared by the phase transfer process described in U.S. Patent No. 4,600,791, issued July 15, 1986.
  • the amount of cyclic phosphazene present in the lubricating grease composition of the present invention will depend, among other possible factors, on the amount of antiwear enhancement desired. In most compositions the cyclic phosphazene will be present in an amount equal to about 0.1% to about 20% by weight of the lubricant composition. More preferably, however, the cyclic phosphazene will be present in an amount equal to about 1% to about 10% by weight. Amounts of about 2% to about 6% by weight are usually most preferred.
  • the lubricant composition of the present invention also includes an alkali metal soap thickener.
  • the organic portion of the alkali metal soap usually includes a relatively large organic acid group, such as lignoceryl, valeryl, lauryl, myristyl, palmityl, stearyl, oleyl, linoleyl, azelyl, linolenyl, benzoyl, o-, m- or p-toluyl and palmitoleyl.
  • the grease usually includes a soap with one or more fatty moieties having at least 10 carbon atoms, as such soaps usually have reduced solubility in water in comparison to soaps of shorter chain moieties.
  • Fatty moieties having about 12 to about 20 carbon atoms such as lauryl, palmityl, stearyl, oleyl or linolenyl are most preferred. Stearyl and 12-hydroxy stearyl are most preferred. Mixtures of different organic moieties may also be used. For example, when the soap is derived from tallow the organic moieties may include stearyl, palmityl and oleyl. Relatively small organic moieties, such as acetyl and propionyl, may also be included.
  • the soap include an alkali metal.
  • Sodium and lithium are preferred, with lithium being most preferred.
  • other soaps or non-soap thickeners may be included, such as calcium stearate included with sodium stearate.
  • non-alkali metal soaps and non-soap thickeners when present, constitute less than 50% by weight of the total thickener content of the grease, and more preferably less than 25% by weight of the total thickener content.
  • the alkali metal soap be a complex soap, wherein the soap component includes a complexing agent in addition to the groups described above.
  • this complexing agent usually is a di or tri-basic moiety, such as one or more of azelaic acid (1,2-heptanedicarboxylic acid), sebacic acid, 1,5-pentanedi- carboxylic acid, 1,9-nonanedicarboxylic acid, and lithium borates such as lithium metaborate and lithium tetraborate.
  • Complex lithium 12-hydroxy stearate soap greases such as Unirex N-2 grease, available from the Exxon company, are most preferred.
  • the amount of alkali metal soap present in the grease composition will depend on a variety of factors, such as the identity of the lubricating fluid, whether the grease should be more or less viscous for the intended application, and whether other thickeners such as calcium stearate or non-soap thickeners are present. For most greases, however, it is preferred that the alkali metal soap be present in an amount equal to about 2% to about 30% by weight of the lubricating grease composition. Amounts of alkali metal soap of about 5 to about 20% by weight are usually more preferred.
  • the lubricating grease composition may contain other components to enhance desirable grease properties.
  • additives include antioxidants and corrosion inhibitors, such as phenothiazine, p-nonylphenoxy acetic acids, 2,6-di-t-butyl phenol, phenyl- alpha-naphthyl amine, dinonyl naphthane sulfonates, and alkyl succinic acids, as well as other additives known in the art.
  • the components of the lubricating grease composition of the present invention may be combined and compounded into a grease by means known in the art, such as by mixing the alkali metal soap with the lubricating fluid and heating the mixture moderately to dissolve the soap in the lubricating fluid.
  • the phosphazene may then be incorporated by simple mixing techniques.
  • Greases were prepared by placing a fatty acid, a metal salt and base oil in a container and heating the mixture to 100-170°C with stirring to dissolve the fatty acid and metal salt in the oil. After a period of time - usually about 2 hours - the mixture was cooled to about 100°C and additional base oil blended in to yield a grease. Additional components, when desired, were then added by simple mixing techniques.
  • Lubricating grease compositions which include an alkali metal soap were tested as discussed above. Some of these greases also contained a trimeric phosphazene completely substituted by phenoxy and ethylphenoxy moieties. This phosphazene was made by esterifying trimeric dichloro-phosphazene with phenol and ethylphenol in a medium comprising a mixture of water, a base, a water immiscible solvent and a phase-transfer catalyst, with the ratio of phenol to ethylphenol in the medium being approximate 1:1. This type of reaction process is explained in U. S. Patent No. 4,600,791, issued July 15, 1986.
  • Example l(a) For Example l(a), more than one sample was tested.
  • the amount of alkali metal soap, the amount of phosphazene, as well as the results of testing of these compositions are indicated below in Table I.
  • Lubricating greases thickened by non-alkali metal soaps were tested as discussed above.
  • Phosphazene - containing greases included the same phosphazene as Examples 1-4.
  • Calcium complex greases were those thickened by calcium 12-hydroxy stearate/acetate complex soaps. The results of this testing are indicated below in Table II.

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