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Lubricants, Heat Transfer and Deicing Fluids
Formulating the next generation of high-performance lubricants
High-performance lubricants, heat transfer fluids and aircraft deicing fluids address key challenges for a wide variety of applications such as transmissions, axles, engines, metal processing, aircraft, food processing, electronics, commercial marine and gas turbines.
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LUBRICANTS AND BASE STOCKS
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HEAT TRANSFER FLUIDS
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AIRCRAFT DEICING FLUID
Why are lubricants important?
Lubricants and base stocks address key challenges such as transmissions, axles, engines, metal processing, commercial marine and gas turbines.
Polyalkylene glycols (PAGs) improve energy efficiency by reducing friction, increasing equipment durability and improving fuel economy.
Non-varnishing synthetic base stocks enable extended lubricant performance with lower downtime and improved cleanliness.
Low-odor ingredients and base stocks, with low toxicity, meet food and beverage processing standards for use where incidental contamination occurs.
Applications
Industrial Lubricants and Base Stocks
Helping meet the industrial lubrication market demands for energy efficiency, environmental acceptability and high performance across applications.
Food and Beverage Processing
Delivering inhibited heat transfer fluids, silicone antifoams and defoaming agents designed to address undesirable temperature fluctuations and eliminate problematic foam during the production, processing and packaging of food and beverages.
Metalworking Fluids
Helping metalworking formulators solve everyday challenges by leveraging the manufacturing and support expertise of Dow.
Transportation
Delivering for an industry that is pushing not just for a more sustainable future for vehicles, but for one that is also safer, more connected, autonomous, electric, and profitable.
Get on board for longer lubricant life
UCON™ WaterGuard (WG) Stabilizers can extend the life of lubricants used in marine applications, including deck equipment by improving the hydrolytic stability of a fluid formulated with esters.
Enabling superior food grade lubricants
UCON™ Polyalkylene Glycol (PAG) Lubricant Technology can help meet stringent food and beverage industry requirements and achieve peace of mind for manufacturers.
What are heat transfer fluids and why are they important?
Heat transfer fluids are available in three distinct fluid chemistries: synthetic organic, inhibited glycols and silicone. The technologies offer excellent thermal stability for high and low temperatures as well as corrosion protection for a variety of heat management and heat transfer applications. These include geothermal heat pumps and other water-based systems to food and beverage processing; and from pharmaceutical and polymer processing to Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) generation.
Applications
Food and Beverage Processing
Keeping pace with ever-evolving global food needs requires efficient processes, safety and compliance. At every step in the food production process, chemistry-based solutions play an important role in ensuring quality and safety.
Heating and Cooling
Collaborating to meet demanding system performance, protection and safety requirements for indirect heating of process liquids and polymers and drying and heating of bulk materials, chemical manufacturers need heat transfer fluids.
HVAC, Heating and Cooling
Delivering sustainable ways to assure comfortable temperatures as well as energy efficiency for building designers and owners.
Data Center Cooling
Providing a wide range of heat transfer fluids and cooling solutions to help data centers save energy, reduce costs and improve performance.
Pharmaceutical Processing
Meeting precise temperature control and safety performance requirements in pharmaceutical processing.
Midstream Oil and Gas Solutions
Enabling midstream operations for demand efficiency and system health for reliable and cost-effective processing and transmission.
Invest in quality fluids
Heat transfer fluids make up about 1% of the total cost of a system, but they have the ability to ruin it completely if the fluid is low quality. Investing in quality fluids is investing in your system’s future. Dow heat transfer fluids have been helping systems achieve peak performance since 1929. We are the only fluid supplier with over 90 years in the industry. As a back-integrated supplier, Dow sets the bar for purity and longevity with DOWFROST and DOWTHERM…lasting over 20 years. Don’t compromise the lifetime of your system…Invest in it.
DOWFROST™ Heat Transfer Fluid
A formulation of 96.0 percent food grade propylene glycol plus food grade corrosion inhibitors. Solutions of this in water provide freeze protection to below -50°C (-60°F) and burst protection to below -73°C (-100°F).
DOWTHERM™ A Heat Transfer Fluid
Versatile Heat Transfer Fluid that can operate in either liquid or vapor phases in order to collect, transport, and store heat in a variety of heat transfer applications, such as concentrated solar power (CSP) systems.
Lubricants, Heat Transfer and Deicing Fluids
Dow’s holistic support initiative aims to provide assistance to customers from project inception through the end of the system’s life. Dow has been offering heat transfer fluids for more than 90 years and has an extensive knowledge base in this segment as a result, allowing for exceptional customer support. Our assistance today includes:
Consultation – one of our technical experts will work with you to understand the parameters of your project/system and select the best fluid.
Virtual or on-site technical seminars and product training.
Start-up guidelines and on-site safety training.
Product troubleshooting.
Fluid selection support and equipment design.
Fluid choice requires weighing the importance of multiple factors: temperature limits, initial versus long-term costs, regulatory requirements, and physical properties.
Engineering Guides
Detailed brochures with physical properties and information for all Dow fluids.
List of recommended materials and equipment for optimal heat transfer performance.
Procedures and guidelines for start-ups, systems cleaning and others.
FLUIDFILE™ Property Software
Free-to-use software program that compares physical properties, film coefficient and pressure drop of multiple Dow Heat Transfer Fluids (HTF).
Dow Synthetic Fluids material properties are also available in HTRI and other databases.
North America Fluid Return Program (Synthetic Fluids Only)
When current fluid has reached the end of its life, Dow can help with the return/disposal of the HTF.
Dow will support and help coordinate the exchange of old fluid for new.
Incentivized pricing for new material that is replacing material that utilizes the Fluid Return Program.
Fluid Analysis Program**
Free-of-cost service that enables the owner/operator to have fluids analyzed in Dow laboratories, maximizing its life with proper maintenance after recommendations.
Track the performance of the fluid over time and determine its suitability for continued use to reduce operational and fluid replacement costs.
**Fluid Analysis only available for systems >250 gallons of concentrate for Glycol
What are the different types of aircraft deicing and anti-icing fluids?
Aircraft deicing and anti-icing fluids are available as either ethylene glycol- or propylene glycol-based fluids. When the weather is unpredictable and challenging, they offer rapid and uniform wetting and spreading on aircraft surfaces, as well as long holdover times at very cold temperatures. They can be used as concentrate and ready to use (predilute) to assist in removal of ice, snow and frost from the exterior surfaces of aircraft.
MobilityScience™ - Technology on the move
Working with OEMs, tiers along the value chain, and a variety of third party global teams on the front lines of innovation, like Jaguar TCS Racing to develop cutting edge solutions and test and analyze the performance.
UCON™ OSP Base Fluids Brochure
UCON™ OSP fluids are a breakthrough in oil-soluble polyalkylene glycol (PAG) lubricant technology and offer compatibility with mineral oils and synthetic hydrocarbon base oils as well as many others while maintaining key benefits.
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