INCREASING THE LUBRICANT RESOURCE BY DEVELOPING A DEVICE FOR ITS CLEANING

Abstract

Agricultural production is one of the main consumers of oil products. The enterprises of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine annually consume about 7 million tons of produced diesel fuel and about 1.0 million tons of motor oil. An average farm in the central zone consumes up to 1,200 tons of diesel fuel, 600 tons of gasoline, and 60 tons of curtain oils per year, of which at least 80% goes into the category of spent petroleum products of various groups. As a result of the intensive growth of the fleet of internal combustion engines, as well as increased attention to economic and environmental factors, the task of saving and rational use of fuel and energy, raw materials and other material resources is becoming increasingly acute for the national economy. It is known that one of the ways to increase the level of supply of agricultural production with motor oils is their repeated use after the restoration of some quality indicators that have deteriorated as a result of their use in the operation of auto-tractor equipment. The repeated use of oils allows you to increase their service life, reduce irreversible losses and reduce the shortage of oil supplies to farms. However, the rate of use of recovered oils remains at a low level. Thus, in the country as a whole, the annual discharge of used oils amounted to 0.9 million tons, and only 0.15 million tons were regenerated, which is about 16% of the collected volume. The proposed device can be used within the framework of the initiative topic "Investigation of ways to optimize the parameters of the technological process for the production of fatty acid esters for diesel biofuel" (state registration number: 0122U002187 dated 30.03.2022), and investigated under the initiative topic: "Investigation of the influence of the bioethanol component of the fuel mixture on the parameters operation of a gasoline injection engine" (state registration number: 0122U00213 dated 30.03.2022).