Shell Turbo - Turbine Oils
Shell has developed a range of turbine oils that enables users such as power companies and process plant operators to select the oil that will deliver optimum value to their operations through enhanced protection, long oil life and high system efficiency.
Turbine oils developed to protect, designed to perform
Often the unsung hero of power generation, your turbines are what helps drive the gears of industry forward – whether they’re used to maintain manufacturing chains or ensure an efficient energy supply.
Keeping the power flowing can be easier said than done, however, particularly amid the hostile operating environments that are common in these energy intensive industries. Environments that expose critical components to everything from high temperatures to heavy loads.
Fortunately, the right turbine oil can help. By prioritizing protection and performance, our Shell Turbo range of turbine oils can help keep your equipment working exactly as it was designed. And with decades of success in the field, you can be sure that the Shell Turbo portfolio is made up of only the highest performing oils.
Key Benefits¹
Enhanced wear protection
The anti-wear performance of Shell Turbo oils helps reduce the risk of turbine failure, even for heavily-loaded gearboxes.
Extended oil life
Because unplanned downtime has never been more expensive, Shell Turbo oils deliver exceptional oil life under continuous operation.
Excellent system efficiency
Rapid air release combines with excellent filterability to help you get the most from your turbines, time after time.
High-temperature, fire-resistant performance
Overcome increased operating temperatures and fire hazards with an oil that not only survives, but thrives, amid thermal stresses.
Heavy-load protection
Excellent load-carrying capacity means reliable performance, even under severe, peak-load operation or cyclic peak-loading conditions.
Deposit and corrosion protection
Selective additive combinations minimize deposits on parts like filters or bearings, reducing the likelihood of corrosion and wear.
Applications
From turbines to turbocompressors, the Shell Turbo range covers a number of specialist applications across industrial steam, light or heavy-duty gas, and combined-cycle systems, including those with specific needs relating to:
- High temperatures
- Enclosed gears
- Long life
- Flame resistance
- Load capacity
- High ammonia inertness
Shell Lubricants - Turbo S4 Oils
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Shell Lubricants
Turbo S4 Oils
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Bill Stein
Principal Engineer for Turbine Oils
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Hi my name is Bill Stein and I have been formulating industrial lubricants for 35 years at our Shell Technology Center here in Houston.
With our Turbo S4, what we've done is we started with a GTL-based oil, which is a gas-to-liquids technology for Shell, and we've actually built a proprietary additive package into that.
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Shell Turbo S4 Oil
Other Oil Brands
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We've minimized deposit formation in the actual application. So during some of our field trials we've seen some very good performance with this new product.
Recently, ASTM has developed a new dry TOST test, that we were a part of. This particular test stresses the oil in a very different way than some of the other tests have and it actually will produce deposits and varnish quicker and even probably more accurately than other conventional tests which have been around for 40, 50 years.
The newer dry TOST tests will kind of mimic what's going on in the turbine better than some of the older tests.
We see varnish forming, which would kind of equate to varnish forming in the machines, on bearings, on surfaces and also on the servo valve.
With the lower quality oils, you have all kinds of performance problems.
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More Deposits
Foaming
Less Air Release
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In general, you have more deposits. You have problems with foaming, air release. You're not going to get as much reliability with equipment.
Shell Turbo S4 oils give very good performance in the Dry TOST tests showing very little varnish formation and deposit formation over the course of the test.
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Shell Lubricants
Disclaimers:
1For more information around performance characteristics, test results and technical claims, please consult our Shell Turbo product brochure here: https://www.shell.co.uk/business-customers/lubricants-for-business/lubricants-product-range/shell-turbo-turbine-oils/download-the-shell-turbo-brochure.html
All data is derived from tests in laboratories of Shell Lubricant Solutions or partners using accepted standard methods.
For more product specific information, please visit www.epc.shell.com for more details.
