Never change your engine oil again?

[LTC8K6]

Anyone heard of this thing / have any experience with it. The claims just don't sound right to me. 180-200 degrees F is not hot enough to vaporize the contaminants, is it? How would the cotton filter neutralize acids?

http://www.electrolubegreen.com/home.html

The Refiner design is a 2-stage cleaning process:

First Stage – Superior Particle Filtration

Oil enters the refiner through a restricting orifice in the bottom. It then passes through a filter element, made of specially blended, compressed long staple cotton. This highly effective filter element traps solid particles down to less than five (5) microns. It neutralizes acids that may be present in the used oil and it also temporarily absorbs a moderate amount of water for a subsequent more even vaporization in the heat-chamber.

Second Stage – Vaporization of Liquid Contaminants

The oil then passes through a series of tiny openings, into the upper chamber, where a heating coil in the lid maintains a temperature range from 180° F to 200° F. This temperature is not warm enough to affect the oil itself, but it is the perfect range to cause vaporization of water and fuel contaminants. The stair-step design of the dispersion plate assures a slow even flow of oil to enhance vaporization. The vaporized fuel, water and other contaminants pass to the outside through a vent hole at the top of the refiner, while clean de-contaminated oil is returned to the oil reservoir.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I'm pretty sure if this was the case, a lot of people would be using it. Combine that with their circa 1999 website styling, and I'll pass. I'd like my engine to continue running for more than another 10k miles, thanks. 🙂

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Bunk...

Based on the proven fact that motor oil never wears out, it only gets contaminated or its additives get depleted

Sounds like a fleabag fact is you ask me...

How does this filter prevent the additives being depleted? - Answer - It doesn't.

In relation to your questions - 180 - 200 degrees F is hot enough to vaporize water and volatile organics. Think of water vaporizing off a hot drive in the sun. Vaporizing != boiling.

I have no idea how cotton neutralises acids...

 

[PlasmaBomb]

http://www.electrolubegreen.com/the_facts.html

Fail.

 

[thescreensavers]

Yea lol the viscosity and TBN of Oil change the longer you keep using it.

Every Fluid wears out.

 

[punjabiplaya]

Yea lol the viscosity and TBN of Oil change the longer you keep using it.

Every Fluid wears out.

Not this guy's

 

[StageLeft]

I'm pretty sure if this was the case, a lot of people would be using it. Combine that with their circa 1999 website styling, and I'll pass. I'd like my engine to continue running for more than another 10k miles, thanks. 🙂

Couldn't even be bothered to update to copyright 2010. Do not want.

 

[Bignate603]

The only good point they make is that automotive filters allow relatively large particles through. At work I do some work on filtration for turbine engines and we use filters that remove much smaller particles. While better filtration will help somewhat automotive engine applications are considerably more tolerant of small particle contamination because the engine because of the kind of lubricated components they use. You would see some benefit from better filtration but honestly it probably wouldn't increase the life of the engine noticeably.

Also, all oil breaks down during use in a normal engine, even when the engine is running at a normal operating temperature. The rate at which it breaks down accelerates extremely when you run the engine too hot but it's always present at a low level.