what is used turbine oil listed as
Turbine Oil. any oil used to lubricate the bearings and auxiliary machinery in steam and hydraulic turbines, in turbopumps, and in air, gas, and refrigeration turbocompressors.Turbine oils are also used as lubricants and working fluids in various types of closed-cycle industrial machinery.ynthetic turbine oils based on trixylenyl phosphate are used in control systems of high-power steam turbines. The advantage of these oils is their high flame resistance, but they are expensive and somewhat toxic. Spravochnik po primeneniiu i normam raskhoda smazochnykh materialov, 3rd ed., books 1â2.