Friction and leak-reducing additives in Oil Market: Global Market Revenue and Share by Manufacturers With the influx of advanced machines and tools in the industrial sector to achieve efficiency in their performance, the need for lubricants for these machines and tools to produce desired output also arises. A lubricant is a thin film that minimizes friction between moving metal parts by preventing metal-to-metal contact. The application of lubricants to ease out the movement of machine parts is not new and has been there before the dawn of Iron Age. However with complexities present in the modern machineries, use of additives in lubricants to improve their properties is a must. Read Report Overview @ https://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/friction-leak-reducing-additives-oilmarket.html A base fluid together with an additive package constitutes a lubricant. The main function of the base fluid is to lubricate and carry additives. Additives are added either to improve an existing property or to add a new property to the base fluid. The already existing properties include viscosity index, viscosity, oxidation resistance and pour point. The new properties which are added may include friction reduction, leak reduction, cleaning and suspending ability, corrosion control and anti-wear performance. A friction additive is used to reduce the friction between the moving metal parts. It functions by forming a durable low resistant lubricant film as it is absorbed on the metal surface via association with the base fluid. Common materials such as molybdenum compounds, long chin fatty acids and their derivatives can be used as additives to inhibit friction in oil. In addition to minimizing friction, these additives also help in reducing wear at low temperatures and enhance fuel efficiency. The aging of machine parts causes them to wear. At higher operating temperatures the thickened grease matrix gets destroyed thus resulting in oil leakage into the combustion chamber via other machine parts and get burned away with the fuels. Oil leakage also causes contamination of the lubricants. Hence, leak reducing additives are required that would prevent softening of the lubricant under high shear or at high operating temperatures.