Hall Of Fame
BEST PAPER AWARD 2024 Johan Leckner – Axel Chrisiternsson “Can Calcium Limit Lithium reLiance“ Link to 2024 BPA PDF | |
ELGI ACADEMIC AWARD 2024 Kazumi Sakai – Eneos “Neutron imaging technique for understanding of urea type grease fluidity inside bearings“ Link to 2024 ELGI Academic Award PDF | |
2023 Professor Piet M. Lugt – SKF Netherlands Co-Author: Mr. Frank Berens (SKF) “The Grease Life Factor (GLF) concept for ball bearings“ Link to 2023 BPA PDF | |
2022 Jie Zhang – Imperial College Co-Author: Alan Wheatley, Sarah Matthews, Edward Worthington (Shell) Philippa Cann, Rihard Pasaribu (Imperial College) “The Influence of Lubricants on Fretting Wear, Particularly at Low Temperature“ Link to 2022 BPA PDF | |
2019 Andreas Dodos Co-Author: Mehdi Fathi-Najafi – Nynas AB & John Kay – Stratco Eldon’s SA “Grease Production, CO2 emission… a New Relationship!“ Link to 2019 BPA PDF | |
2017 Johan Leckner Co-Author: René Westbroek Axel Christiernsson International AB “Polypropylene – a Novel Thickener Technology with many Surprises“ Link to 2017 BPA PDF | |
2016 George Dodos Eldon’s Greece “Valorization of Used Cooking Oil for the Production of Sustainable Lubricating Greases“ Link to 2016 BPA PDF | |
2015 Gareth Fish Lubrizol – Wickliffe, Ohio USA “The development of energy efficient greases” Link to 2015 BPA PDF | |
2014 Siegfried Lucazeau Nyco – Paris France “Combination of Novel Antioxidant System and Thermally Stable Esters for High Temperature Greases” Link to 2014 BPA PDF | |
2014 George Dodos Eldon’s Greece “A New Approach for Measuring Oxidation Stability of Lubricating Greases “ Link to 2014 BPA PDF | |
2013 Piet Lugt SKF Engineering & Research Centre Nieuwegein The Netherlands “The lubrication mechanisms in grease lubricated rolling bearings” Link to 2013 BPA PDF | |
2012 Jaime Spagnoli ExxonMobil Products Research & Technology – USA “False brinelling test (Riffel) for wind turbine grease” Link to 2012 BPA PDF | |
2011 David DeVore Co-Author: Shanshan Wang Functional Products Inc., USA “A Study of polymer additives in mineral oil and vegetable oil-based greases” Link to 2011 BPA PDF | |
2010 Bernhard Koch Co-Authors: Thomas Litters, Nael Zaki Fuchs Europe Schmierstoffe GmbH Germany “Investigation on the visco-elastic properties of lubricating greases in dependency of base oil polarity and thickener type” Link to 2010 BPA PDF | |
2009 Chuck Coe ExxonMobil — United States “Should grease upper operating temperature claims have a technical basis?” Link to 2009 BPA PDF | |
2008 Steve Nolan Lubrizol – United Kingdom “Evaluation of low temperature rheological properties of lubricating greases for centralised systems”. Link to 2008 BPA PDF | |
2007 Valentina Serra-Holm Nynas Napthenics – Sweden “Super heavy naphthenics: additive or base oil”. Link to 2007 BPA PDF | |
2006 Alun Williams Airbus SAS – France “Aircraft Greases – Expectations – Requirements – Areas of Effect“. Link to 2006 BPA PDF |