LUBRICANT DESIGN MANUFACTURABILITY PROCESS

摘要

Methods are provided for designing a blending component for making a plurality of lubricant products that contain the designed blending component. This can be accomplished by first determining a plurality of manufacturability index values for each desired lubricant product for a family of proposed blending components. The manufacturing index values can then be used to construct a manufacturability window for each lubricant product. The manufacturability windows for each lubricant product can then be analyzed to determine regions of overlap, if any, where a proposed blending component can be used with an increased likelihood to formulate each of the desired products. Alternatively, manufacturability windows can be used to determine suitability of pre-existing blending components for formulation of desired products.

主权项

1. A method for designing a lubricant blending component comprising:
identifying a plurality of lubricant products for formulation using a plurality of formulation components, the plurality of formulation components for each lubricant product including a first blending component; selecting at least one first property of the first blending component; varying the at least one first property of the first blending component to have a first plurality of selected values; calculating a manufacturability index value for each of the plurality of lubricant products at each of the first plurality of selected values, the calculated manufacturability index values for each lubricant product corresponding to a manufacturability window; determining an overlap between the manufacturability windows for each lubricant product; and formulating the plurality of lubricant products using the first blending component, the first blending component having a value for the at least one selected first property within the determined overlap of the manufacturability windows.