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Vegetable Oil based Bio-lubricants and Transformer Fluids

Part of the Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4870-8

ISBN: 978-981-10-4869-2

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Sep 10, 2017

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Green Fluids from Vegetable Oil: Power Plant

Gnanasekaran, Dhorali; Chavidi, Venkata Prasad

Pages: 3 –26

[Biodegradability has become one of the most important design parameters both in the selection of base oil and in the overall formulation of the finished fluids for insulating liquid and lubricants at electrical power generation in the power plants. There is a continuing trend toward the use of...
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Biodegradable, Renewable, and Eco-friendly Vegetable Oil: Lubricants

Gnanasekaran, Dhorali; Chavidi, Venkata Prasad

Pages: 29 –47

[The environmental pollution, toxicity, and rising cost of conventional lubricants lead to renewed awareness in the improvement of environmentally friendly bio-lubricants. Due to the negative impact (low biodegradability and more toxicity of mineral and synthetic) on the environment, there has...
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Vegetable Oil as a Multifunctional and Multipurpose Green Lubricant Additive

Gnanasekaran, Dhorali; Chavidi, Venkata Prasad

Pages: 49 –62

[It covers the different types of biodegradable triglycerides of vegetable oil (soybean oil, sunflower oil, jojoba oil, natural garlic oil, etc.) which functioned as multifunctional and multipurpose lubricant additives. In lubricants, each conventional additive improves particularly only one...
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Biodegradable Polymers as Lubricant Additives

Gnanasekaran, Dhorali; Chavidi, Venkata Prasad

Pages: 63 –79

[The physical, chemical, and antiwear performance of lubricant which contains a biodegradable polymer as additive is literature reviewed. Readily available and with its broad range of applications, vegetable oils are reviewed as a very important class of renewable resources for lubricants as well...
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Nanomaterials as an Additive in Biodegradable Lubricants

Gnanasekaran, Dhorali; Chavidi, Venkata Prasad

Pages: 81 –97

[The performance and effectiveness of nanoparticles as an additive in biobased natural ester (vegetable oil) lubricants are appraised. The entire chapter deals with the lubricating properties of additives as nanoparticles, which blend with biodegradable base oil that can reduce the wear and...
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Vegetable Oil: An Eco-friendly Liquid Insulator

Gnanasekaran, Dhorali; Chavidi, Venkata Prasad

Pages: 101 –124

[This chapter deals with the basics and chemistry of natural esters and their applications as a liquid insulator. This chapter also describes the refining and processing techniques of various vegetable oil-based natural esters. This chapter also includes detailed discussion of vegetable esters of...
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Properties of Vegetable Fluids: A Green Insulator for Power Sector

Gnanasekaran, Dhorali; Chavidi, Venkata Prasad

Pages: 125 –155

[This chapter deals with the properties (physical, thermal, chemical, and electrical) of natural esters to be used as insulating fluids. This chapter also describes the effect of various additives (antioxidant additive, pour point depressant, etc.) on the properties of vegetable oil-based natural...

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