5. Conclusion
There are no technical requirements for "biolubricants", "environmentally acceptable lubricants" or "environmentally friendly lubricants". A number of legal provisions require "Bio-No-Tox"/"Bio-Min-Tox" properties and/or renewable material content.
EALs require a different chemistry and, properly selected and additivated, offer several functional advantages over hydrocarbon-based oils, but at a much higher purchase price.
After more than 30 years, the use of EALs or biolubricants has been consolidated in a niche market, except in the USA with VGP2013/VIDA.
Biolubricants will become mandatory everywhere, once local politics and society agree on the relationship between "water quality and oil/lubricant use".
Vehicles consume around 60% of all lubricants sold, and offer the greatest environmental...
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Bibliography
Websites
https://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/product-bureau/product-groups/439/home
http://www.biolubricants.eu or http://www.biosmeermiddelen.com
Standards and norms
- Testing lubricants and related products – Determination of rapid biological degradability – Part 1: General information. - DIN 51828-1 - (nov. 2000)
- Feste Sekundärbrennstoffe – Verfahren zur Bestimmung des Gehaltes an Biomasse; Deutsche Fassung. - DIN EN 15440 :2011-05 -
- Water quality – Guidelines for determining biodegradability in the marine environment – Water quality – Guidance for determination of...
Regulations
– Council Directive 67/548/EEC of June 27, 1967 on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labeling of dangerous substances, OJEC of August 16, 1967.
– Council Directive 75/439/EEC on the disposal of waste oils. OJEC of July 25, 1975.
– European Directive n° 87-101 of December 22, 1986 n° 87101 amending...
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