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Which lubricants are best suited for your fleet? Shell Heavy Duty Lubricants Technical Specialist Karin Haumann explains how to best identify your lubrication needs.
Title: Ask an Expert, Meet the Fleet Technical Experts
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Description: A video of a Shell technical expert discussing how Shell heavy duty lubricants are developed.
[Video starts]
Karin Haumann, Shell Heavy Duty Lubricant Technical Specialist, headshot speaking. She has blonde hair and is wearing glasses and a white button-down shirt.
[Karin Haumann voice and video]
I'm Karin Haumann, I'm a Heavy Duty
Lubricant Technical Specialist.
Many of you know that heavy duty lubricants are made to work hard, because of the environments they serve. But few people really know what goes into developing a heavy duty lubricant.
So right now, I'll walk you through some of the steps.
[Yellow text box with simultaneous voice over by Karin Haumann]
First, extensive testing is done
with the American Petroleum
Institute standards for either CK4 or FA4.
[Yellow text box disappears, video of Karin returns]
This includes 9 engine tests
that run between 100 and 500 hours
each, and measure 34 critical parameters
like:
carbon deposits on your pistons
or engine sludge
or Cam Lobe wear
Then we go into the laboratory
where there are 13 tests that measure things like
Engine oil volatility
and corrosion protection
The oil is even tested in cold temperatures to make sure that it can flow at as low
as 40° below zero.
And that's just the beginning.
[White text box with simultaneous voice over by Karin Haumann]
Then we run the oil in dozens of trucks on the road in real world conditions.
We even make sure that we stress the oil for severe environments by extending the drain interval well beyond its recommended service interval.
[Video footage]
Tractor trailer truck driving on road
[voice over by Karin Haumann]
We can accumulate as many as a million miles or more on a single product, testing the condition and the quality of the oil the entire way through.
[Video of Karin Haumann speaking]
Hopefully that gives you a better understanding of the rigor that goes into Shell Rotella lubricants that are developed specifically for heavy duty applications.
[Yellow text box]
Part 1
Meet the Fleet
Technical Experts
With Karin Haumann
Thank you for watching
[Video Footage]
Shell Rotella oil being poured into an engine
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