The evaluation of a one-cylinder Delco gasoline engine as an accelerated lubricating oil test unit

It is desirable to build a single one-cylinder testing engine capable of manipulation so that it can test lubricating oils for wear, corrosion and tendency to oxidation and detergency, and give reproducible results. The purpose of this investigation is three-fold: (1) To install the control accessories required for control of the engine test conditions, and assemble the one cylinder, two-stroke cycle engine as a unit to be used in conducting the tests, (2) To determine the breakdown characteristics of a solvent refined, asphalt base oil at varying conditions of temperature and load in the test engine, and (3) to correlate the breakdown characteristics of the oil with the performance of the test engine so as to rate the engine as a possible test unit for evaluation of lubricating oils.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Chemical Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Chemical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Year dc:date.issued

1947

Author dc:creator

• Garvin, Clifton C. Jr.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52152

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/52152