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Fuels & Lubes International Quarter Three 2015
According to Greg
Gerhardt, commercial
development manager,
Elevance BPE meets
Factory Mutual
requirements for fire
resistance, because of
its high flash and fire
point.
“In addition, unlike
many other vegetable-
based esters, such
as TMP trioleate,
Elevance’s BPE has
a strong response to
anti-oxidants that makes
it a very attractive
option to formulators
of hydraulics and
metalworking fluid.
Elevance’s preliminary
data suggests that our
BPE meets or exceeds
the cost performance
of TMP trioleate
in a number of key
applications,” he said.
Elevance takes
natural vegetable oils
and, using metathesis
reactions, converts
them to three product
streams: specialty
chemicals, olefins and
oleochemicals.
While Elevance
products do come from
a renewable source,
Gerhardt said that
the customers’ main
priority is not so much
sustainability as it is
performance.
“So for us, this is the
most important criteria,”
he said. “Performance,
and in particular, high
performance, that we
feel will be needed over
the next three to five to
10 years in the lubricant
marketplace.”
Gerhardt also revealed
that Elevance is in the
process of converting an
根据Elevance的商业开发经
理Greg Gerhardt所说，El-
evance BPE具有高闪点和高燃
点，可以满足工厂联合保险商
协会的阻燃要求。
“此外，与其他许多诸如TMP
trioleate的植物基酯不同，BPE
对抗氧化性高度敏感，使之成
为液压油和金属加工液配方商
很好的选择。Elevance的初步
数据表明，我们的BPE在多个
关键应用中，可以满足或超过
TMP trioleate的成本性能，”
他说。
Elevance以中性植物油进
行复分解反应，将其转化为三
种产物：特种化学品、烯烃和
油脂。
虽然Elevance产品来源于可
再生原料，Gerhardt说，但客
户的重点在于性能而不是可持
续性。
“因此，对我们来说，这是最
重要的标准，”他说。“我们认
为在未来的三年、五年到十年
中，润滑油市场看重性能，特
别是高性能。”
Gerhardt还披露了Elevance
正在把位于美国密西西比州
Natchez的生物柴油装置改造
成世界第二大的生物炼油厂和
衍生物生产装置。Natchez生
产装置的年产能为31万吨。
“我们打算投产这些产能，因
existing biodiesel facility
in Natchez, Miss, U.S.A.,
into a second world-
scale biorefinery and
derivatives facility. The
Natchez manufacturing
facility will have a
capacity of 310,000
metric tonnes (MT).
“We plan to bring
this capacity online as
our customer demand
exceeds the capacity
of our 180,000 MT
biorefinery in Asia,” he
said. The Elevance plant
in Asia is located in
Gresik, Indonesia.
Lithium complex bearing greases are a target application for Elevance’s grease additive.
