Challenges and countermeasures of industrialization of high-end lubricants in China
Although China's equipment manufacturing industry has made significant progress, the industrialization of high-end lubricants is still facing the dilemma of "large but not strong, large but not excellent", which seriously restricts the performance and competitiveness of high-end equipment. Lubricant as the "industrial blood", its performance is directly related to the efficiency, reliability and life of the equipment, especially in the aerospace, intelligent manufacturing and other fields, the self-sufficiency of high-end lubricants is crucial.
Current situation and challenges:
1. Lack of understanding and weak research and development investment: Domestic enterprises mainly focus on the development of Base Oil, and pay insufficient attention to the technical development of high-end lubricants and additives. Engine design and manufacturing units underestimate the importance of lubricants, resulting in a lack of enthusiasm for research and development and production, and insufficient policy support.
2. Large gap in technical performance: China's lubricant products have a significant gap with the international advanced level in high-performance additives and synthetic lubricants. Basic research and application basic research is weak, research and development investment is insufficient, it is difficult to achieve large-scale production, high-end composite agents are still mainly dependent on imports.
3. Lack of positive design ability and evaluation system: weak independent positive design ability and lack of scientific and systematic evaluation standard system. Current standards mostly focus on physical and chemical properties, lack of performance evaluation in practical application scenarios, it is difficult to guide the development and application of high-end lubricants.
Countermeasures and Suggestions:
1. Strengthen basic research and cooperation: Cooperate with host units and production enterprises to carry out systematic research on lubricants from physical and chemical properties to bench testing, identify the gap with international advanced products, and establish scientific research and development processes and methods.
2. Increase policy support and incentives: The government should increase support for universities, research institutes and enterprises, especially for the research and development of "neck" technology to give special funds and project support. Encourage enterprises to take the market demand as the guidance, enhance the positive design ability, improve product performance.
3. Deepen industry-university-research cooperation: Promote in-depth cooperation between universities, research institutes and leading enterprises to build R&D platforms and share research results. Through the joint research of industry, university and research, efficient transformation of scientific research results, accelerate the market application of high-end lubricants.
4. Reform the assessment and evaluation mechanism: Guide enterprises to attach importance to basic research and strengthen the assessment of product performance forward design methods and theories. Enterprises are encouraged to set up special research positions to carry out long-term dedicated research to ensure the continuity and stability of R&D activities.
5. Improve industry standards and international standards: Improve the lubricant industry standard system, and promote docking and mutual recognition with international standards. Strengthen the performance evaluation of high-end lubricants under different friction pairs, build scientific evaluation standards that meet the actual application scenarios, and improve the international competitiveness of domestic lubricants.
In summary, to promote the industrialization of high-end lubricants in China, it is necessary to start with basic research, policy support, industry-university-research cooperation, assessment and evaluation, form a joint force, break through the "jam neck" technology, and ensure the industrial safety and development needs of the equipment manufacturing industry.
