Key Features and Benefits:

Extended Oil Life: Shell Gadinia S3 40 offers excellent resistance to oxidation and thermal degradation, resulting in longer oil life, especially in high-stress engines under severe operating conditions.
Engine Protection: The lubricant helps extend engine life by reducing deposit formation in the piston ring belt and cylinder liners, thereby decreasing the risk of ring sticking and breakage. The formulation also minimizes lacquer formation, leading to better control of oil consumption and reduced operating costs.
System Efficiency: Designed to tolerate engine overload or poor combustion, Shell Gadinia S3 40 provides a greater safety margin to protect highly loaded bearings in the event of water contamination, due to its improved water tolerance and separation in separators.

Main Applications:

Highly rated, medium-speed, main propulsion and auxiliary trunk-piston stationary and marine diesel engines.
Smaller high-speed engines, typically used in fishing fleets operating under arduous conditions with small sump sizes.
Turbochargers, oil-filled stern tubes, and variable pitch propellers.
Deck machinery and other marine applications requiring SAE 40 viscosity oils.

Health, Safety, and Environment:

When used as directed, Shell Gadinia S3 40 is unlikely to present significant health or safety hazards. Avoid contact with skin; use impervious gloves when handling used oil. After skin contact, wash immediately with soap and water. Guidance on health and safety is available in the Material Safety Data Sheet. Dispose of used oil at an authorized collection point; do not discharge into drains, soil, or water.