Vegetable oils have traditionally been applied in food uses, but recent trends suggest their
economic usefulness as industrial fluids. Increasing crude oil prices and emphasis on the …

Lubricants are very important consumables in all industries as failure in machine parts due
to absence or wrong choice of lubricants carries enormous cost. The base oil used for the …

A review is made here to understand the application of vegetable oils as potential metal
working fluids. The study highlights the contributions from more than sixty authors on …

This paper presents the thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) of coconut oil, sesame oil,
sunflower oil and a commercial 2T oil under nitrogen and oxygen environment to study their …

Increased concerns about environmental damage caused by mineral oil based lubricants,
has created a growing worldwide trend of promoting vegetable oil as base oil for automobile …

Cutting fluids are most fundamental and important part in metalworking industries. Cutting
fluids are widely employed due to their ability to reduce friction, cutting temperature …

With the progressive increase in human activities in the Antarctic region, the possibility of
domestic oil spillage also increases. Developing means for the removal of oils, such as …

Machining operations are very common for the production of auto parts, ie, connecting rods,
crankshafts, etc. In machining, the use of cutting oil is very necessary, but it leads to higher …

The substitution of petroleum based synthetic lubricant with rapeseed oil based bio-lubricant
in a variable compression ratio diesel engine is explored in this study. Rapeseed oil based …

The objective of this work was to isolate a novel thermophilic bacterial strain and develop a
bacterial consortium (BC) for efficient degradation oily food waste. Four treatments were …