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G-OIL - Bio-Based, Green Motor Oil
In his book, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, author Seth Godin says the key to standing out is to be the “Purple Cow” in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
The G-OIL line is the “Purple Cow” of the oil and lubricants market. A host of remarkable characteristics not only put G-OIL head and shoulders above its leading competitors in terms of performance, safety, and consideration for the environment, but also stand to revolutionize the industry.
G-OIL replaces the petrochemical base of traditional oil products with an “ultimate biodegradable” bio-base. This base, called tallow, or animal fat, is sustainable and can be collected domestically with grown beef, pork, and chicken fat. Now GET is recycling these animal fats to make a highly demanded product in place of foreign oil.
At a molecular level, the G-OIL bio-base material is unique for its low temperature of operation and high degree of stability. The G-OIL base can operate at negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Previously sold bio-based products were limited to use at temperatures over approximately positive 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Further, the G-OIL base material is stable, showing little or no reactivity with additives allowing for easy enhancement of its natural properties, just like petrochemical oils and lubricants.
The question has been asked as to why Green Earth chose animal fat as a starting material rather than a vegetable oil. The answer is that once the fat has been processed to make the G-OIL biological base material, there is a resulting mixture of fatty acids rich in heavy materials with a longer carbon chain length, which lack the oxidation and temperature sensitive double bonds found in plant oils. The G-OIL biological base material mimics the composition of petroleum oils, which are distillations rich in aliphatic, and linear vs. ring or compound structure in the 16 , 18 and 20 carbon chain lengths with no double bonds between the carbons. Grape seed oil contains little or no 20 carbon length material, so either more additives or more Grape Seed material would be needed to obtain the desired viscosity. More importantly, only 8 to 17 percent of the components of grape seed oil are without double bonds, or saturated fats, and 69 to 78 percent Omega-6 Stearic acid, which is an 18 carbon chain with two double bond sites along with other unsaturated fats. Double bond sites are subject to undesirable cleavage by oxidation, which increases dramatically with temperature. If cleaved, the 18 carbon chain becomes three molecules of 6 carbon length with little or no lubrication value, making Grape Seed oil a poor choice as a starting material for a motor oil or lubricant. Oxidation would be accelerated by storing the product above 35 degrees C (95 F) or with the seasonal addition of oxygenation additives to the fuel to reduce air pollution.
G-OIL performs as well as and is priced on par with leading petroleum-based brands. The first commercially available product from Green Earth, G-OIL 2-Cycle Oil for 2-stroke engines, is proven to perform equally or better than synthetic oils, including Mobil One. Ash content is proven lower than past products that have been marketed as “ash-less.” You no longer need to choose between a good price, a clean engine and high performance, inspiring the Green Earth tagline, “Save the Earth, Sacrifice Nothing.”
G-OIL meets standards set by the American Petroleum Institute (API) for the API TC rating. Because the proprietary process used to make the biological base material in G-OIL imparts synthetic and petroleum “oil-like” properties, only limited quantities of commercially available additives are needed to make the material meet or exceed the API TC rating. G-OIL 2-Cycle is composed of a substantial amount of biological base materials with a Detergent additive and an Ash less Dispersant additive.
For G-OIL’s 2-cycle oil to achieve this rating, it was subjected to a series of physical and chemical property tests and engine tests by an API-certified testing laboratory. The performance of G-OIL was measured against a reference oil in engines that were calibrated and registered per API specifications.
There are four tests that provide insight into the quality of an oil: Viscosity Index (VI), Flash Point, Pour Point and Sulfated Ash. These tests and the effect on performance provide answers to the question: “Why Does Green Earth’s G-OIL Perform Better Than Other Oils?”
The VI, before the emergence of synthetic oil, was a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 was the best oil and 0 was the worst. Now, with the advent of synthetic oils and additives, the scale goes above 100, but VI remains as an indication of quality. Higher VI scores indicate the oil can withstand higher operating temperatures without thinning, leading to poor lubrication and accelerated engine wear. They chose to compare G-OIL with Mobile One and Gulf Pride. These oils achieved the highest VI’s in their class: synthetic and petroleum-based.
Mobile One contains at least 150 times more ash than G-OIL. Gulf Pride reports 0.00 percent ash, which based on the significant figures reported is less than 10 parts.
The Flash Point and Pour Point temperatures for oil are analogous to the vapor and freezing temperatures of water. If the Flash Point temperature of oil is above the operating temperature of the air-cooled 2-cycle engine, there will be no smoke in the exhaust. A higher Flash Point gives a higher probability of smokeless operation. If the Pour Point for oil is below the ambient temperature of operation of the engine in the outdoor environment, the engine will receive proper lubrication in cold weather conditions.
An oil will pass the Sequence I engine test if it performs to 0.5 points below the reference oil on both average piston varnish rating and second ring sticking rating. G-OIL out performed the reference oil and on average was 25.5% better than the reference oil for average piston varnish rating and 35.6% better than the reference oil for second ring sticking rating.
TECHNOLOGY
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American Grown Base OilsAmerican Grown Base Oils are renewable resources that are USA – grown, crop based oils. |
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Nano Technology - Doing More with LessOur patent pending manufacturing process and materials, generally 5 nanometers in diameter, are compared to competitor’s one micron size and generates 1,000 times increase in surface area and millions of times increase in the number of particles. The reason G.E.T. products perform so well and are able to be sold at a competitive price is due in part to the precious chemicals added into the product that are performance Packed. |
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DehydrogenationOur pending patent is for the conversion of saturated fats from plant or animal origins into high value unsaturated oil like materials that lead to greater utilization of the supply of oils and fats for consumer products without loss of necessary lubrication. |
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Additives100% bio-based ULTIMATE BIODEGRADABLEingredients consisting of aklanolamines, amino acids, plant and vegetable extracts, non-ionic surfactants and plant based fatty acids in a base of colloidal micelles. Colloidal micelles, a microscopic particle, is comprised of linear fatty acid molecules clumped together in a shape of a sphere that is about the size of one to four nanometers.These additives contain no hazardous components under OSHA definitions. |
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