Key properties are necessary to ensure quality control, to allow the selection of the right lubricant and to inform about rules and possible restrictions in storage & handling.
Key properties are published in technical or material safety data sheets.

It contains the following videos:
  • Overview
    Video length: 4:10 Minutes
    Target: To become familiar with the most important properties of a lubricant and their purpose

  • Viscosity + influence of temperature & pressure
    Video length: 24:33 Minutes
    Target: To become familiar with viscosity, its dependence on temperature and pressure and how to specify this using international standards.

  • Density, specific and API gravity
    Video length: 7:28 Minutes
    Target: To learn what density related properties tell us about lubricant, lubricant base stocks and crude oil

  • Low temperature behavior of lubricants
    Video length: 8:06 Minutes
    Target: To learn what common low temperature related properties tell us about the lubricant

  • High temperature behaviour
    Video length: 9:31 Minutes
    Target: To learn what common high temperature related properties tell us about the lubricant

  • Refinement & other properties
    Video length: 12:45 Minutes
    Target: To learn what color, sulfur and ash content tell us about the composition of the lubricant

  • The color of lubricants
    Video length: 9:11 Minutes
    Target: To learn what the color and color changes tell us about the lubricant

In addition to the videos, you can download the used presentations as PDF files.

Course plan

Overview of the most important properties
Viscosity & Co.
Density & Co.
Low temperature properties
HIgh temperature properties
Refinement & other properties
The color of lubricants - a practical approach