Production of aircraft lubricants from petroleum and coconut oil

Experts from the Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Center have developed the optimal aircraft maintenance technology from oil and coconut oil or palm oil, which reduces the cost of maintaining aircraft four times.

The center has developed a special lubricant, which can be applied to all parts vulnerable to water, salt and air during storage.

The basis for this type of product is the oil that Vietsovpetro joint venture operates offshore.

With this technology, during storage, there is no need to approach the aircraft at any time and at the time of flight only need to start the engine and the aircraft is ready to work.

Deputy General Director of the Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Center, Mr. Nicolai Samokhin, said: 'Oil contains up to 50% paraffin. This is the most valuable material for making lubricants to preserve aircraft. We add this oil to another material to enhance its protection, after adding oil can penetrate the smallest cracks and cracks of the aircraft ".

Raw materials are coconut oil or palm oil. This oil causes water on the surface to protect against evaporation.

When fabricating preservatives, manufacturers used materials imported from Russia, for example inhibitors that slowed or completely prevented corrosion of metals, aging of polymers, too oxidation process of lubricating oil.

However, Tropical Center experts will soon build a synthetic inhibitor also from available materials in Vietnam. Therefore the import of raw materials from Russia is no longer necessary and thus the cost of maintaining civilian and military aircraft in Vietnam will be lower.