Patent ID: 6165949
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: C10G

Abstract:
A wear resistant lubricant comprising at least 95 wt % non-cyclic isoparaffins derive from waxy, paraffinic, Fisher-Tropsch synthesized hydrocarbons in admixture with an effective amount of at least one antiwear additive wherein said isoparaffins have a molecular structure wherein less than 25% of the total number of carbon atoms are present in the branches and less than half the branches on the isoparaffinic molecules are methyl branches and wherein said antiwear additive is at least one of a metal phosphate, a metal dithiophosphate, a metal dialkyldithio phosphate, an metal thiocarbamate, a metal dithiocarbamate, an ethoxylated amine dialkyldithiophosphate and an ethoxylate amine dithiobenzoate.