Deliver To:

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Amer.Virgin Is.
  • American Samoa
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Antarctica
  • Antigua Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Aruba
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bermuda
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bonaire, Saba
  • Bosnia-Herz.
  • Botswana
  • Bouvet Island
  • Brazil
  • Brit.Ind.Oc.Ter
  • Brit.Virgin Is.
  • Brunei Daruss.
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • C. African Rep.
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Cape Verde
  • Cayman Islands
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • Christmas Islnd
  • Coconut Islands
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Cook Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Curacao
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Dem. Rep. Congo
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Rep.
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guin
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Falkland Islnds
  • Faroe Islands
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Frenc.Polynesia
  • French Guiana
  • French S.Territ
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Greater China (Chinese Mainland)
  • Greater China (Hong Kong SAR)
  • Greater China (Macau SAR)
  • Greater China (Taiwan)
  • Greece
  • Greenland
  • Grenada
  • Guadeloupe
  • Guam
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Heard McDon.Isl
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
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  • Ireland
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  • Japan
  • Jordan
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  • Kosovo
  • Kuwait
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  • Liberia
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  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islnds
  • Martinique
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mayotte
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia
  • Minor Outl.Isl.
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Montserrat
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • N.Mariana Islnd
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Niue
  • Norfolk Island
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Panama
  • Pap. New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Pitcairn
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Qatar
  • Reunion
  • Romania
  • Russian Fed.
  • Rwanda
  • S. Sandwich Ins
  • S.Tome,Principe
  • Saint Helena
  • Saint Lucia
  • Samoa
  • San Marino
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Sint Maarten
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  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • St Kitts&Nevis
  • St. Vincent
  • St.Pier,Miquel.
  • Suriname
  • Svalbard
  • Swaziland
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tokelau
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad,Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turksh Caicosin
  • Tuvalu
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Utd.Arab Emir.
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Vatican City
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Wallis,Futuna
  • West Sahara
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Lubricants, Heat Transfer and Deicing Fluids

Enabling formulation success

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Lubricants, Heat Transfer and Deicing Fluids

Enabling formulation success

Formulating the next generation of high-performance lubricants

High-performance lubricants, heat transfer fluids and aircraft deicing fluids address key challenges for a wide variety of applications such as transmissions, axles, engines, metal processing, aircraft, food processing, electronics, commercial marine and gas turbines. 

Why are lubricants important?

Lubricants and base stocks address key challenges such as transmissions, axles, engines, metal processing, commercial marine and gas turbines.

  • Polyalkylene glycols (PAGs) improve energy efficiency by reducing friction, increasing equipment durability and improving fuel economy.

  • Non-varnishing synthetic base stocks enable extended lubricant performance with lower downtime and improved cleanliness.

  • Low-odor ingredients and base stocks, with low toxicity, meet food and beverage processing standards for use where incidental contamination occurs.

Applications

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Industrial Lubricants and Base Stocks

Helping meet the industrial lubrication market demands for energy efficiency, environmental acceptability and high performance across applications. 

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Food and Beverage Processing

Delivering inhibited heat transfer fluids, silicone antifoams and defoaming agents designed to address undesirable temperature fluctuations and eliminate problematic foam during the production, processing and packaging of food and beverages.

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Metalworking Fluids

Helping metalworking formulators solve everyday challenges by leveraging the manufacturing and support expertise of Dow. 

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Transportation

Delivering for an industry that is pushing not just for a more sustainable future for vehicles, but for one that is also safer, more connected, autonomous, electric, and profitable.

What are heat transfer fluids and why are they important?

Heat transfer fluids are available in three distinct fluid chemistries: synthetic organic, inhibited glycols and silicone. The technologies offer excellent thermal stability for high and low temperatures as well as corrosion protection for a variety of heat management and heat transfer applications. These include geothermal heat pumps and other water-based systems to food and beverage processing; and from pharmaceutical and polymer processing to Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) generation. 

Applications

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Food and Beverage Processing

Keeping pace with ever-evolving global food needs requires efficient processes, safety and compliance. At every step in the food production process, chemistry-based solutions play an important role in ensuring quality and safety. 

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Heating and Cooling

Collaborating to meet demanding system performance, protection and safety requirements for indirect heating of process liquids and polymers and drying and heating of bulk materials, chemical manufacturers need heat transfer fluids.

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HVAC, Heating and Cooling

Delivering sustainable ways to assure comfortable temperatures as well as energy efficiency for building designers and owners.

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Data Center Cooling

Providing a wide range of heat transfer fluids and cooling solutions to help data centers save energy, reduce costs and improve performance.

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Pharmaceutical Processing

Meeting precise temperature control and safety performance requirements in pharmaceutical processing. 

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Midstream Oil and Gas Solutions

Enabling midstream operations for demand efficiency and system health for reliable and cost-effective processing and transmission. 

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DOWFROST™ LC Inhibited Propylene Glycol-Based Heat Transfer Fluid

DOWFROST™ LC Heat Transfer Fluid is specifically formulated for liquid cooled, direct-to-chip applications and provides exceptional corrosion protection.

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Heat Transfer Fluids Calculator, FLUIDFILE™

Input your fluid properties, set system conditions and determine the best synthetic or glycol-based fluid to meet your unique needs.

What are the different types of aircraft deicing and anti-icing fluids?

Aircraft deicing and anti-icing fluids are available as either ethylene glycol- or propylene glycol-based fluids. When the weather is unpredictable and challenging, they offer rapid and uniform wetting and spreading on aircraft surfaces, as well as long holdover times at very cold temperatures. They can be used as concentrate and ready to use (predilute) to assist in removal of ice, snow and frost from the exterior surfaces of aircraft. 

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