3627 results about "Oil can" patented technology

A method and a device for detecting a deterioration of vehicle oil are disclosed in which the end point of the oil service life can be detected with higher accuracy, while at the same time detecting the progress of the oil condition in the vicinity of the end point of the oil service life. The acidity or basicity of the vehicle oil is measured using a pH sensor (11) generating an output in responding to the degree of the acidity or basicity. The deterioration of the vehicle oil can be detected based on the fact that with the increase in vehicle mileage, a line approximating the output of the pH sensor (11) with respect to the vehicle mileage has a tendency to change from a first inclination to a second inclination larger than the first inclination and then from the second inclination to a third inclination smaller than the second inclination.

The invention discloses an on-line monitoring system for diesel lubrication oil, which comprises a host computer system and a slave computer system, wherein the slave computer system comprises an oil information monitoring sensor module, an automatic circularly oil-collecting module, a signal decoding and modulating module and an oil information gathering module; the oil information monitoring sensor module is respectively connected with the signal decoding and modulating module and the oil information gathering module; and the signal decoding and modulating module is connected with the oil information gathering module. The on-line monitoring system for diesel lubrication oil can realize the real-time and continuous monitoring and the fault warning for the diesel lubrication oil; monitoring and analyzing results of the on-line monitoring system are synchronous with the running state of a diesel engine; and the defects of artificial uncertainty influencing factors of off-line monitoring and delay of detecting and analyzing time of off-line sampling are overcome. Meanwhile, the defect of evaluating oil quality by using a single sensor is overcome by the on-line monitoring system, the complement characteristic of reflecting fault features by multi-information is achieved, and the accuracy of on-line monitoring and diagnosis is increased.

A method and system for detecting oil quality. The quality of engine oil can be determined utilizing an acoustic wave sensor to obtain viscosity and corrosivity data associated with the engine oil. The acoustic wave sensor is coated with a material that selectively reacts to at least one type of an acid in order to provide data indicative of the presence of the acids in the engine oil. The etch rate or the corrosivity of the engine oil can be determined based on the frequency data obtained as a result of the frequency measurement utilizing the acoustic wave sensor. The viscosity of the engine oil can additionally be obtained based on a measurement of phase and amplitude obtained from the data utilizing the acoustic wave sensor. The etch rate and the viscosity measurement provide data indicative of the quality of the engine oil.

An oil condition sensor is proposed which can accurately determine the degree to which oil is contaminated with metallic powders. It includes a permanent magnet and a sensor head provided around the permanent magnet. The sensor head includes a cup-shaped electrode and a plurality of rod-shaped conductors that are axially spaced from the cup-shaped electrode. The conductors are connected to a power supply through separate resistors. When the amount of metallic powders in the oil increases, a greater number of conductors are electrically connected to the cup-shaped electrode. Thus, by finding the number of conductors electrically connected to the cup-shaped electrode, it is possible to determine the degree to which the oil is contaminated with metallic powders. Since the resistors need not be immersed in the oil, their specific resistivities will scarcely change, so that the degree of contamination of the oil can be determined with high accuracy.

The invention relates to lubricating rust preventive oil and application thereof, mainly aiming to solve the problems of the prior art that: a rustproof product has poor adhering property; and the prior art only lays stress on rustproof property and does not attach equal importance to the extreme pressure property, oxidation resistance and permeability of a petroleum product. The lubricating rust preventive oil solves the problems better through adopting the following technical proposal that: the compositions in percentage by weight of the lubricating rust preventive oil are: (a) 0.1 to 10 percent of extreme pressure antiwear agent, (b) 0.5 to 15 percent of rustproof agent, (c) 0.5 to 5 percent of oxidation and corrosion inhibitor, (d) 0.1 to 15 percent of viscidity temperature index improver, (e) 0.1 to 12 percent of friction improver and (f) the balance being base oil. The lubricating rust preventive oil can be used in fields such as harbor machinery, excavator, travelling crane, cargo winch and commercial elevator cable.

The invention discloses a method for regenerating engine oil by using biomass wastes. The method comprises the following steps: 1) crushing the biomass wastes into granules, cleaning, and drying for later use; 2) preparing biomass charcoal or biomass active carbon under the protection of nitrogen; 3) standing waste engine oil for layering, dewatering, filtering solids and treating suspended matters; 4) heating the treated waste engine oil, adding the biomass charcoal or biomass active carbon while stirring to perform reaction, then cooling and performing suction filtration to obtain regenerated engine oil. The method has the advantages that the biomass charcoal or biomass active carbon prepared from the biomass wastes in the method has high a specific surface area and good adsorption performance, resourceful waste is eliminated, reutilization of resources is realized, a good decolorizing agent is developed for the waste engine oil, and the transmittance of the regenerated engine oil can reach 50-90%; recycling, reduction and harmlessness of the biomass wastes and the waste engine oil are realized, so that the method has significant economic benefit and social value.

The invention relates to the technical field of mechanical equipment oil detection and provides an inductive-reactance type oil detection system. The system comprises a detector, a measurement mode switching unit and an excitation-detection unit. The detector comprises a micro-fluidic chip and a sensing unit, wherein the micro-fluidic chip is composed of a micro-channel inlet, a micro-channel, a substrate, a model material and a micro-channel outlet; and the sensing unit is formed by two single-layer coils facing each other. The measurement mode switching unit switches different measurement modes by changing different connection modes of four lead terminals of the two single-layer coils. By supplying the two single-layer coils with high-frequency AC electric excitation, the excitation-detection unit can be used as an inductance-resistance detector as well as a capacitance detector. According to the chip, by the utilization of the same sensing unit, measurement of multiple parameters such as inductance, resistance and capacitance is realized, various particle pollutants in the oil can be distinguished and detected, and fault diagnosis of machinery equipment can be further carried out.

The invention provides oil-gas lubricating oil which comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 75-90% of polyester type base oil, 6-20% of other types of base oil, 0.3-3% of antioxidant, 0.01-2% of antirusting agent, 0.5-3% of oiliness improver, 1-5% of extreme pressure antiwear agent and 0.01-0.5% of anti-foaming agent, wherein other types of base oil is one or more than one of synthetic ester, alkyl benzene and alkyl naphthalene. The provided oil-gas lubricating oil has strong universality, is not easy to coke at high temperature and has excellent high temperature performance and good lubricating property. The oil-gas lubricating oil not only can be applied to various bearings of an oil-gas lubricating device, gear cases with various loads, worm gears, worms, locomotive wheel rims, rail cases and the like, but also can be used as ordinary gear oil. Moreover, the oil-gas lubricating oil can be used both in summer and in winter and in southern region and northern region. The oil-gas lubricating oil has strong cleaning performance and can effectively prevent coked matter from blocking oil pipelines.

The invention discloses a marine sniffing estimation method of sulphur content in fuel oil, comprising the following five steps: acquiring tail gas; drawing a SO2 monitoring curve and a CO2 monitoringcurve to acquire SO2 concentration value, CO2 concentration value, SO2 background concentration value and CO2 background concentration value during the same monitoring period; calculating sulphur content in marine fuel oil on the basis of material balance; acquiring monitoring time of ships with excessive sulphur content in fuel oil; and locking the ships with excessive sulphur content in fuel oil. By the marine sniffing estimation method of sulphur content in fuel oil, the purpose of identifying ships with illegal use of high sulphur oil can be achieved without going on board, and huge wastecaused by blind sampling is avoided. The invention provides an efficient means for accurate sampling inspection of ships in national ship emission control areas.

The invention belongs to the technical field of driving assemblies, and discloses an oil-water mixed cooling motor system and a vehicle. The motor system comprises a shell, a stator and a rotor; a first oil channel is formed in the shell and extends to a position between the shell and a stator core; an oil injection part is arranged on the inner side of the shell and located at the end of the stator core; and cooling oil can be at least injected to an end winding through an oil injection hole; a water channel is formed in the shell and is laminated with at least part of the first oil channel in a staggered manner; an oil guide piece is arranged on a rotor shaft and is positioned at the end part of a rotor core; a second oil channel comprises an oil inlet flow channel on the rotor shaft, amagnetic steel cooling flow channel between the rotor core and magnetic steel, an oil guide flow channel on the oil guide piece and a first oil throwing flow channel, wherein the oil guide flow channel is communicated with the oil inlet flow channel and the magnetic steel cooling flow channel; and cooling oil is at least thrown to the end winding through the first oil throwing flow channel. The vehicle comprises a motor system. According to the oil-water mixed cooling motor system and the vehicle of the invention, the stator core, the end winding and the magnetic steel are cooled at the same time; and the stator core and the end winding are cooled in a water-cooling and oil-cooling combined mode, so that a cooling effect is good.

The invention discloses a classification test method and a classification test system for edible oil and swill-cooked dirty oil. The classification test method comprises the following steps that: Raman fingerprint databases for edible oil and swill-cooked dirty oil are first created, and the notable difference between the maximum Raman intensity values of the characteristic peaks of edible oil and swill-cooked dirty oil within a five-band wave number range and the threshold of the difference are then obtained by way of comparison; and in a practical test, the variety of a tested samples obtained by extracting the maximum Raman intensity value of the characteristic peak of the tested sample within the five-band wave number range and comparing the maximum Raman intensity value with the difference threshold. The classification test system comprises a light source system, an optical splitter, a sample box and a measurement control unit. The invention has the advantages of flexibility and high specificity, and can effectively test whether a tested sample is pure swill-cooked dirty oil, pure edible oil meeting the active national standard or edible oil mixed with swill-cooked dirty oil or not; and meanwhile, the operation is simple and convenient, the testing time is short, and swill-cooked dirty oil can be tested on the spot.

The invention discloses an oil pressure assistance braking system.A braking main cylinder (02) is sequentially provided with a cavity II, a cavity I and a cavity III in the direction from a piston to a piston rod.The cavity III is an oil cavity where the piston rod is located.The cavity I and the cavity II are connected with an MC port of an ABS / ESC unit (C).An electronic control assistance unit (B) is provided with three electromagnetic valves, a pressure sensor and a one-way valve, wherein the electromagnetic valves are a normally-closed pressure regulating valve, a normally-opened electromagnetic valve and a normally-closed electromagnetic valve, and the normally-closed pressure regulating valve is connected with an oil can.By the adoption of the technical scheme, the production cost is reduced, and the size is smaller, which is beneficial for installation and arrangement on a vehicle; pressure can be increased, reduced and regulated fast, the adjusting response is fast, and the response requirement for a motor-hydraulic pump system and the requirement for a motor and ECU power are far lower than that of the scheme in which the motor is required to rotate forward and backward fast.A vacuum booster is omitted, the system is more compact in structure, and the cost of the whole braking system is low.

The invention discloses a method for detecting the quality of edible oil with nuclear magnetic resonance combined with pattern recognition, belonging to the field of food detection methods. This method first collects NMR signals under the same parameters for different quality oil samples, and then performs segmental integration on the spectrum, and after normalization and standardization of the obtained data matrix, pattern discrimination analysis is carried out; and the same quality oil Repeatability tests are carried out on similar samples; an oil quality test database is established based on the test data of different quality oils, and analysis and test standards are formed; finally, the quality of unknown oil samples is identified through the test data in the database. It is suitable for the identification and detection of genuine edible oil and inferior gutter oil or adulterated edible oil, and can identify the type of edible oil. The method of the invention has the advantages of high accuracy, good repeatability, quickness and economy, etc., and can provide reliable information for the identification of the quality of various edible oils and the identification of low-priced edible oils posing as high-priced edible oils.

Methods and systems for determining the amount of water in a high water cut crude petroleum flow stream exiting from a hydrocarbon well. Electrical property measurements such as permittivity measurements are collected with a microwave analyzer system as high water cut oil exits from a well. Collection is continued until the span of the measurements of at least one property reaches at least a characteristic pre-determined value. A heuristic salinity of the water phase of the crude oil can then be determined based on the span statistics and reference equations and / or reference data. The flow-weighted average water content of the oil can then be determined using the heuristic salinity to correct for salinity variation as the output of the well changes over time.

The invention discloses a device and a method for measuring the solubility of a refrigerant in refrigerator oil and an application thereof. The device for measuring the solubility of the refrigerant in the refrigerator oil comprises a balance kettle device, a constant temperature device, a voltage divider, a flow collecting device and a refrigerant gas cylinder, wherein the balance kettle device comprises a balance kettle and a vacuum pump, and the vacuum pump is connected with the balance kettle; the constant temperature device comprises a constant temperature bath; the balance kettle is arranged in the constant temperature bath; the flow collecting device consists of a flower meter and a flow collecting system, and the flower meter is respectively connected with the balance kettle and the flow collecting system; and the voltage divider is arranged between the flow meter and the refrigerant gas bottle. The device has the advantages of simple structure, easiness in construction, low cost, short time required for gas and liquid balance; and the solubility of the refrigerant in the refrigerator oil can be quickly measured.

The invention relates to a method for testing oil oxidation stability. The method comprises the following steps of: supplying an oil processing device which comprises a thermostatic container and an oil container, wherein the oil container is arranged in the thermostatic container and is provided with an air intake pipe and an air outlet pipe; feeding the tested oil and a metal catalyst into the oil container; introducing air into the tested oil via the air intake pipe, wherein the flow of the air is 1 L / H to 20 L / H; measuring the temperature of the tested oil, orderly extracting samples from the tested oil according to a predetermined time sequence after the temperature of the tested oil is up to a set value, and measuring the viscosity, the acid value, the oxidation value and the nitration value of each sample; and measuring the content of an insoluble substance (n-pentane) of the remained oil in the oil container. Through the method, the samples can be sampled by many times during the testing process, so that a performance change trend of the oil is obtained; and the detergent dispersibility and the thermal oxidation stability of the oil can be evaluated.

A through hub fill hole and air vent having an enlarged fluid diffusion path is provided for spindle motors. Oil leakage and evaporation from a motor is reduced. In an aspect, oil is retained under conditions of at least a 1000 G shock event. In an aspect, the hub fill hole has a varying diameter and geometry, and is angled, further reducing oil leakage. In an aspect, an additional cavity is employed within the hub, for maintaining rotor rotational balance. The process of filling oil into a spindle motor is made easier from a motor set up and tooling perspective. Removal of the hub and other motor components is not necessary for filling a motor. Large diameter oil fill dispenser heads, subambient and ambient fill processes, and micro dispenser fill processes may be utilized. A measured and controlled amount of oil can be dispensed, reducing variability in the motor filling process.

The invention discloses a device for performances testing of molten salt heat exchange / accumulation equipment. The device comprises a high-temperature molten salt circulation loop and a cascade cooling system (a heat conduction oil circulation loop and a cooling water circulation loop). By utilizing a mode of combined adjustment of a variable frequency pump, a valve and a bypass line, it is guaranteed that flow of a working medium is adjusted accurately in a large range. By arranging multiple groups of electric heaters and by utilizing a mode of automatically adjusting power through a silicon controlled rectifier, the heating power and temperature can be adjusted accurately in a large range. By introducing nitrogen, molten salt and heat conduction oil can be prevented from being in contact with the air, and the service lives of the molten salt and the heat conduction oil are greatly prolonged. A molten salt heat exchange / accumulation performances testing comprehensive experimental platform has multifunctional characteristics, not only is suitable for testing flow, heat exchange and heat storage performances of the molten salt working medium, but also can be popularized to other liquid working mediums.

The invention discloses a lubricating cooling system for a vehicle gear box. The system comprises an oil tank, an oil feeding pump, a first variable frequency motor, a first temperature sensor, an oil returning pump, a second variable frequency motor and a controller, wherein the first variable frequency motor is used for driving the oil feeding pump to pump oil from the oil tank and then inputting to an oil inlet of the vehicle gear box; the first temperature sensor is used for measuring the temperature of the oil in the oil tank; the controller is used for acquiring various sensor signals in the system and performing feedback such as controlling and alarming. The system is particularly applicable to the lubricating of a vehicle working in a low-temperature environment, and the controller can control the first variable frequency motor to work at a low gear in the low-temperature environment; the torque of the first variable frequency motor is in match with the viscosity of oil, so that the service life of the motor can be prolonged; the oil returning pump is arranged and can be used for pumping lubricating oil accumulated in the gear box, and thus the lubricating oil can be effectively prevented from being accumulated in the gear box.

The invention relates to a method for preparing novel clean synthetic diesel oil and mainly solves the problems that the conventional diesel oil is low in cetane number and is combusted insufficiently in an engine, and a large amount of solid pollutant, COx and NOx are discharged. The method mainly comprises the following steps of: uniformly mixing 5 to 30 mass percent of diesel oil substitute component, 5 to 30 mass percent of additive and 40 to 90 mass percent of diesel oil at normal temperature, standing for 8 to 10 hours, and after liquid is clarified, canning to obtain the novel clean synthetic diesel. The diesel oil substitute component is polyformaldehyde dimethyl ether, methylal or mixture of polyformaldehyde dimethyl ether and methylal in any ratio. By the method, the combustion efficiency of the synthetic diesel oil is improved, the discharge of free carbon and harmful gas is reduced, the quality of the synthetic diesel oil is improved, cost is reduced, a novel way from coal to oils is developed, and the method has good social and economic benefit. The novel clean synthetic diesel oil can be used independently and can also be mixed with petroleum diesel oil to be used, and the engine is not needed to be changed.

The invention provides a replaceable lubricating oil applying device for a bearing. The replaceable lubricating oil applying device comprises a lubricating oil applying box, a sliding rod, a sliding sleeve, a negative-pressure fan and power source chamber, an oil storing box, a ventilating pipe and a bearing placing plate. The replaceable lubricating oil applying device disclosed by the invention can limit the movements of the bearing, and avoids the situation that the position of the bearing is changed in the lubricating oil applying process, so that the lubricating oil applying is non-uniform; an oil outlet pipe rotates applying the lubricating oil, so that the lubricating oil applying is uniform, environmental pollution caused by the outside splashing of the lubricating oil can be avoided, the redundant lubricating oil returns to an oil returning box through grid holes and oil leaking holes, the recovery of the redundant lubricating oil is realized, and the cost is greatly reduced; the replaceable lubricating oil applying device disclosed by the invention is simple in structure, a plurality of the bearings can be applied at the same time because a plurality of bearing placing blocks are arranged, so that the operating efficiency is improved in multiples, the economic cost is reduced, and the labor intensity of a worker is alleviated; the lubricating oil applying device is replaceable and can apply the bearings in different types and sizes, so that the economic benefits are good.

The invention discloses a technology for preparation of biotic oil with dissimilar components using biomass including crop straw and its devices. The biotic materials produce the biotic oil by disintegrating process, dehydrating process, split process, multi-stage condensing process and disintegrating process and the devices install reducing mechanism for materials, drier installation, feed gear, cracking unit for bulk, multi-stage condensing unit, debonding unit and collecting device corresponding to every process. The invention can be used in preparing biotic oil with a large industrial scale, in which the heavy leavings and solid carbon powder mixed with ashes can be used as fuels of furnace; the elementary biotic oil can directly be used in direct-combustion system including oil-burning boiler and direct-combustion central air-conditioning, which can substitute gasoline and diesel as combustion engine fuel by refining; the biotic oil with low-boiling point and high-quality can substitute liquefied petroleum gas as domestic fuel.

The embodiment of the invention provides a broadband noise reduction porous-material acoustic liner. The acoustic liner comprises an acoustic liner panel, a honeycomb structure, a porous-material liner core and an acoustic liner bottom plate. The honeycomb structure is located between the acoustic liner panel and the acoustic liner bottom plate, and the porous-material liner core with a certain thickness is arranged in the honeycomb structure. According to the broadband noise reduction porous-material acoustic liner, the porous-material liner core is arranged in the honeycomb structure in a filling mode, therefore, structural mechanical properties can be satisfied, the acoustic liner can have an excellent broadband and stable noise elimination and reduction performance within a wide range of a high sound pressure level; the problems that porous materials in the acoustic liner are polluted and blocked by oil can be avoided by using an acoustically transparent layer undergoing oleophobic treatment; meanwhile, the porosity of the adopted porous materials is high, and therefore the acoustic liner can have the light feature. The acoustic liner can be applied to noise elimination and reduction of various types of equipment including aero-engines which have strength requirements and are located in severe environments.

The invention discloses a transformer fault diagnosis method based on a radial basis function neural network. According to the method, the content of characteristic gas in insulating oil can be used as input for the radial basis function neural network, transformer faults are output accurately, and accordingly accuracy in transformer fault diagnosis is improved greatly and safe and reliable transformer operation is ensured.

The present invention relates to an intelligent measuring system of the finished oil can area including: a measuring device for collecting data in time; a data collecting device for receiving and correcting the collected data; a main control unit for transmitting all the data obtained by the data collecting device to the computer; a computer control device for computing to obtain the oil stocks according to the measured data and for monitoring the data of the oil can area in time. The intelligent measuring system of the finished oil can area is a complex system for computing the stocks and monitoring in real time. The characteristics are: a problem resolving method containing measuring, computing and monitoring is provided. The devices have a high measuring and computing precise and speed.

The invention relates to a three-dimensional oil contamination degree detector for counting particles in various oil. The detector is based on a photoelectric principle; to-be-detected oil passes through a avoid between transparent thin plates; the light of a light-emitting diode adopts parallel light beams after passing through a convex lens; the parallel light beams are radiated onto a receiving head of the receiving light-emitting diode after passing through the transparent thin plates of the through oil; and current signals can be generated at two ends of the receiving light-emitting diode are generate at the moment. Because a signal level is in proportion to the dimension of each particle, the number of the particles contained in the oil can be determined according to the number of impulses, and the dimension of each particle can be determined according to an impulse level. After the level signal is detected and classified by a processing circuit, the contamination degree of the oil can be judged. The invention has the advantages of high measurement accuracy, high stability and convenient use.

The invention belongs to the technical field of the processing of automobile spare parts, and provides a special oiling machine used for producing sliding rails of automobile seats. The special oiling machine comprises a machine frame, an electronic control system, an air source component, an oil circuit system, a central control system, an upper sliding rail fixing jig, an upper sliding rail oiling mechanism, a lower sliding rail fixing jig, a lower sliding rail oiling mechanism and a working table board, wherein an upper sliding rail and a lower sliding rail which are to be oiled are respectively placed on the upper sliding rail fixing jig and the lower sliding rail fixing jig, and then the electronic control system, the air source component, the oil circuit system, the upper sliding rail oiling mechanism and the lower sliding rail oiling mechanism are controlled by the central control system to oil the sliding rails. The special oiling machine has the advantages that the oiling amount of the special oiling machine can be adjusted, parts needing to be oiled of the sliding rails are oiled by using a copy out-spraying oil nozzle, the oiling amount is steady and accurate, the oiling face range is wide (areas which cannot be manually oiled can also be oiled by using the special oiling machine), oil pollution is reduced due to the closeness of an oil source in the production process, besides, the operation is simple, and the like.

The invention discloses safety efficient cleaning agent for an engine lubrication system. The safety efficient cleaning agent for the engine lubrication system comprises, by weight percent, 55-98.7% of base oil, 1-15% of carbon deposit dissolving agent, 0.1-10% of detergent, 0.1-10% of dispersant, and 0.1-10% of nanometer antiwear agent. The safety efficient cleaning agent can be used to clean deposits such as carbon deposit, colloid and grease inside an automobile engine, so that operation of the engine lubrication system is smoother, the engine can be maintained effectively, and service life of the engine is prolonged effectively. The safety efficient cleaning agent has the advantages that fire in cleaning can be prevented by using the high-flash-point carbon deposit dissolving agent and the base oil, and use is safer; the efficient purification dispersant is high in cleaning power and has high dispersing action against particulate carbon deposit cleaned off, and accordingly blockage of oil circuits is avoided; and by the aid of the nanometer antiwear agent, wear resistance of the cleaning agent is improved, scuffing of a cylinder bore in cleaning due to thinning of engine oil can be prevented, and poisoning of a three-way catalyst caused by sulphuric antiwear agent can also be prevented.

A heavy oil viscosity reduction device comprises a frame, a rotary device, a stirring device, a heating device, holding devices and an oil distributing device. The frame is provided with a first sealing ring, a first sealing washer, a first filter screen, a second filter screen, a collecting hopper and a supporting ring. The rotary device comprises a motor, a first support, a first rotary shaft, a first fixing rod and a first gear. The stirring device comprises a first supporting rod, a second rotary shaft, a second gear, a stirring rod and a third filter screen. The heating device comprises a heating bar, a heat conductive frame, a first fixing block and a second fixing block. The holding devices include the first holding device and the second holding device. The first holding device comprises a first bent rod, a first transverse rod and an inclined rod. The second holding device comprises a second transverse rod and a second support. The oil distributing device comprises an oil distributing block, a fourth filter screen, a fifth filter screen and a filter frame. The oil distributing block is provided with a second through hole. By means of the heavy oil viscosity reduction device, heavy oil is heated and stirred so that the viscosity of the heavy oil can be greatly reduced.

A delivery method and apparatus for massage oil is provided along with an associated massage oil composition. The massage oil is provided in a solid state at room temperature. The massage oil is heated to a liquid state at a temperature which is skin safe. The massage oil can then be applied to the skin and massaged into the skin. The massage oil can be provided in candle form to facilitate melting of the massage oil from the solid state to the liquid state. Compositions including primarily an oil such as hydrogenated soybean oil, palm kernel oil, coconut oil or cocoa butter, which are solid at room temperature, provide a major constituent for the massage oil composition disclosed. Fragrances, emollients, moisturizers, sweeteners, flavorants or other constituents can also be included.