Sunday, April 17, 2016

Merits Of ZDDP Oil Treatment

By Stephen Robinson


Zinc dialkydithiophosphate is a compound usually found in lubrication engine oils. It is usually an additive that is added to the natural or synthetic oils for the purposes of lubrication to the moving parts. The STP, scientifically treated petroleum has been in production for over seventy years since their discovery in the 1940s. There are several advantages of zddp oil treatment that are above and beyond the normal oil lubricants, thus their persistent use for all those years.

The ZDDP treatment helps offer anti-wear agents that help preserve engine moving parts. It helps reduce wear and tear that would have been therefore catastrophic. At engine operation temperatures and pressure many of the engine parts would call a change every day. But with the treated oil, it has more capabilities to protect the engine for it to last long.

Oil has a basic use in an engine which is reduction of friction. Engines with less friction has a much better running, are cooler and can last long compared to a hot and poorly lubricated one. To avoid the dry starts, denser and more viscous oil is need. Oils treated with ZDDP tend to be denser since they have heavy metals in them and in turn increase viscosity making them much more preferred for motor vehicle engines.

Friction is the opposing force between two moving parts. This contact parts tend to make a sharp noise while moving which may be unpleasant to the ear. It is therefore important to reduce if not eliminate the noises for the health and safety of human ears. Denser lubricating oils offers the required thickness in between the contact surfaces thus helping reduce the noise and achieving a quieter engine operation.

Oil at certain pressure and temperatures can burn in oxygen. Since this is the most unlikely occurrence that could happen to an engine, it is important to look for the required oil type that has the right density and viscosity. Density and viscosity in the oils can be altered by treating the natural or synthetic oil with ZDDP. This helps in increasing the oil flush point and making it have a wide operating range.

Oil treated with zinc dialkydiothiophosphate has some agents that prevent corrosion to the internal moving engine parts. They help coat the inside of the engine with a coat of zinc, which is usually a heavy metal and avoids the wear by corrosion of other agents that may have found their way into the inside.

It is much cheaper to produce the ZDDP treated oil since there are companies already established and it has been in used for the longest time. It is also easy to get the mineral zinc metal because it is abundant in the crust of the earth also manufacture the phosphate acids. New technology would prove difficult to research and implement since most engines are depend on the old lubricating oils and it would call for a change to every engine that is in existence making it very expensive an unattainable.

The zinc dialkydiothiophosphate acts like an anti oxidant in the lubricating oils. It inhibits the oxidation of the oil by air or any other compounds that would lead to formation of new chemicals in the oil. This helps avoid the catastrophic failure or engine knocking due to poor lubrication.




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