Brayco

WHEREVER EQUIPMENT IS PUSHED TO THE LIMIT

Extreme environments place extreme demands on everything from subsea pumps to space-borne solar panel bearings. Operating and maintaining high performance machinery in places like this is a high risk, high cost undertaking, where failure is not an option.

Castrol began customising product solutions for semiconductors customers in the mid-1990s by developing the Castrol Brayco® line of low outgassing and low volatility lubricants. Castrol’s PFPE lubricants are ideal for vacuum, cleanroom and reactive chemical (e.g. oxygen) environments and applications.

The Brayco range features a world-leading choice of synthetic oils and greases that are proven to perform in extreme environments: increasing the lifespan of crucial equipment and delivering reliable performance in every critical application.

Outer space presents just as many lubricant challenges as the depths of the sea. That's why the Brayco range includes low outgassing and low volatility lubricants that are proven to virtually eliminate lubricant outgassing.

At the same time, the Brayco range includes Perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubricants that are ideal for vacuum, cleanroom and reactive chemical environments and applications, as well as formulations for deep sea applications that actually absorb low levels of seawater and carry it away from sensitive components.

Wherever equipment is pushed to the extreme, there is a Brayco lubricant to help maximize its reliability.

Outer space presents just as many lubricant challenges as the depths of the sea. That's why the Brayco range includes low outgassing and low volatility lubricants that are proven to virtually eliminate lubricant outgassing.

At the same time, the Brayco range includes Perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubricants that are ideal for vacuum, cleanroom and reactive chemical environments and applications, as well as formulations for deep sea applications that actually absorb low levels of seawater and carry it away from sensitive components.

Wherever equipment is pushed to the extreme, there is a Brayco lubricant to help maximize its reliability.

Our liquid engineering is helping industries across the whole world to increase their productivity and reliability.

The same commitment to technological innovation we have in outer space goes into how we work with our industry partners here on Earth. Castrol lubricants have been specifically designed to perform on land, in space, at sea and in air under extreme conditions.

IN SPACE

Mars in an extreme environment. You’re talking temperatures of maybe +20°C (68°F) in the summer and at the polar extremes temperatures of -153°C (-243°F).

When you’re sending machinery into space, if it has a moving part, it needs lubrication. And when it’s a mission to Mars you don’t get a second chance. You know that anything that goes wrong could jeopardise a mission that is years in the making and costs many million dollars.

Castrol’s Brayco lubricant was developed for NASA at pretty much the start of the space program in the 60s and to this day it is used to keep the Mars Rover roving and the International Space Station in its 17,000 mph (27,400 km/h) orbit around our planet.

Now Castrol is working with the many space agencies and the burgeoning space tourism industry to supply its Brayco lubricant. It can also be used down on earth in manufacturing involving vacuums or with hostile chemicals and extreme environments.

at sea

To aid work in the darkest depths the ocean, Castrol lubricates valves through umbicals that start at the oceans surface and go down to the seabed. They can be up to 125km long, which in other words mean they would be able to stretch all the way from London to Birmingham.

Our Castrol subsea control fluids perform reliably up to 3000m below sea level, at extreme pressures that could crush a car (1500 bar), and in temperatures as low as -60 c. Additionally they will keep working in equipment that remains on the ocean floor for up forty years.

Our lubricants are in vessels that create enough propulsion to tackle 25ft high waves, in engines where they’re exposed to similar combustion conditions as could be seen in a rocket combustion chamber.

in air

At Castrol we help the aerospace industry take to the skies. Our range of solutions have been specifically developed to meet the needs of their numerous and rigorous manufacturing and assembly processes.

We have been part of record-breaking moments in the sky for over a century, ever since the Wright Brother’s first flight all the way back in 1903. Castrol was also the first to successfully lubricate a jet engine, the first to develop a corrosion inhibited jet turbine oil, and the first to lubricate a cabin supercharger.

What’s more, Castrol’s synthetic turbine oil provided lubrication for the world’s first supersonic land vehicle, the ThrustSSC. Our proven ability to deliver high performance in critical environments even saw the top-secret SR-71 Blackbird, a plane designed to fly at over 2000 mph at altitudes of 85,000 ft, using Brayco® hydraulic fluids.

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