Automotive fuel and lubricants

Author: Zhang Binyou
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: As a material, fuel plays an increasingly important role in automotive production and technological advancements in the automotive industry. The fuel discussed in this article refers to the commonly used automotive products in automotive production and processing media. Automotive products include fuels, engine oils, gear oils, automatic transmission fluids, greases, and special fluids. Automotive production processing media are a general term for a variety of materials required for different processes in automotive production. This includes various cutting oils, cutting fluids, honing fluids, lubricants for drawing and extrusion, casting coatings, casting mold release agents, various heat treatment quenching oils and quenching agents, etc. As liquid components of vehicles, automotive products oils, along with other automotive parts, constitute the overall vehicle. Therefore, the quality level of automotive products oils has a significant impact on vehicle operation, reliability, safety, economy, power performance, as well as vehicle emissions and energy efficiency. Particularly, fuel oils, with growing public concern over energy and emissions, have become a critical issue for society. Currently, the primary fuels used in vehicles—gasoline and diesel—have become a major concern for the entire community.