Memorandum by NYCO
The attention of our company has been recently
drawn onto an incorrect statement in the 2000 report of the House
of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Air Travel
and Health.
The paragraphs 4.35 to 4.41 refer to potential
poisoning by components included into the jet engine oil, of which
tri-cresyl-phosphate (TCP). This field of jet engine oil
formulation is very well known to NYCO SA as a corporation, because
we have been designing, manufacturing and marketing such products
since 1959.
Paragraph 4.36 states that "Mr Fogarty
of Exxon-Mobil commented that no other additive had been found
to match TCP's anti-wear and load-carrying performance".
This is not accurate as NYCO SA has been marketing since 1985
a jet engine oil, "Turbonycoil 600", that does not include
any TCP in its formulation, albeit containing an additive of the
same family. In spite of the absence of TCP, Turbonycoil 600 meets
all the technical requirements of the engine manufacturers and
military authorities in charge of the approval of such products.
In particular, it is duly approved to the MIL-PRF-23699
specification, which is the ruling specification for all today's
commercial engine oils. Turbonycoil 600 is also approved for over
40 different commercial and military engines manufactured by the
Rolls-Royce, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Snecma,
including the very popular commercial engines CFM56, V2500 and
RB211.[81]
The considerable flight experience accumulated
since 1985 on gas turbine engines is a clear evidence that the
use of TCP in jet engine oils can be avoided, without compromising
at all the quality and performance of the oil in the engine. Turbonycoil
600 is in particular the oil currently used by the Royal Air Force
and Royal Navy under the Ministry of Defence designation "OX-27".
Paris
12 June 2007
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