Mitsubishi Oil Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yukiharu Beppu

Masayoshi Muraki

Shozaburo Konishi

Susumu Kawaguchi

Noboru Masuda

Sou Suzuki

Takayoshi Hamada

Kazuo Tagawa

Norimasa Nishiura

Yasuo Kondo

Nobuo Murata

A refrigerating machine oil composition for vapor compression type refrigerating machines is disclosed which can be used with either of HCFC refrigerants and HFC refrigerants. The inventive machine oil composition comprises a polyol ester (ester compound) as a base oil. Furthermore, the base oil contains from 1.0 to less than 5.0% by weight of a phosphate, from 0.1 to 2.0% by weight of an alkyl phosphorothionate and/or an aryl phosphorothionate, and from 0.05 to 2.0% by weight of an epoxy compound. The composition is free from sludge formation and insufficient lubricity, which are drawbacks of the polyol ester, due to the synergistic effect of these additives. On the other hand, the inventive composition provides the desirable properties of a polyol ester base oil, namely, good compatibility with refrigerants, high electrical insulating properties, and low hygroscopicity.

Refrigerating machine oil composition for use with HCFC and HFC

A refrigerating machine oil composition suitable for a compressor using a hydrofluorocarbon as a refrigerant, which comprises 100 parts by weight of a polyol ester as a base oil, from 7.0 to 15.0 parts by weight of a phosphate, and from 0.2 to 3.0 parts by weight in total of a 1,2-epoxyalkane and/or a vinylcyclohexene dioxide. The use of the refrigerating machine oil composition improves wear resistance of sliding portions of compressors and is free from the formation of sludges derived from the polyol ester used as a base oil of the oil composition. A rotary compressor using the oil composition is also disclosed.

Refrigerating machine oil composition for use with HFC refrigerant

Disclosed is a refrigerator oil composition for compressors using hydrofluorocarbons as a refrigerant, comprising (a) a base oil component of a dibasic acid diester and/or a carboxylate of a polyhydric alcohol, and optionally a mineral oil and/or an alkylbenzene, and (b) a phosphate and/or a phosphite, the content of which is from 5.0 to 90.0% by mass of a dibasic acid diester and/or a carboxylate of a polyhydric alcohol in the base oil component. The composition is used as a lubricating oil in refrigerators using, as a refrigerant, hydrofluorocarbons which are substitutes for halogen-containing refrigerants. Using the composition, formation of sludge in high temperature parts may be prevented. The composition is free from wear and has good compatibility with refrigerants, and it is used for a long period of time under high-temperature and high-pressure conditions.

Refrigerator oil composition

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Yukiharu Beppu