Synthesis of Waste Cooking Oil Epoxide as a Bio-Lubricant Base Stock: Characterization and Optimization Study

Chemical/Structural Modification of Canola Oil and Canola Biodiesel: Kinetic Studies and Biodegradability of the Alkoxides

“…Thus, the same approach has been adopted in this study, the ester branching is attached at the mid-and end-sites on the fatty acid chains. The CP and PP of the prepared ECO and ECB alkoxides derivatives are reported in Table 1, PPs of the alkoxides are found to be in the range of 2 to −21 • C. Higher PP alkoxides are desirable for higher temperature and radiation resistance applications [18,19]. PP of the BCBB is found to be favorable (−21 • C) and also meet the standard lubricant requirements of ISO VG32, VG 46, VG 68, VG 100 (−6 • C), SAE20W40 (−21 • C) and AG100 (−18 • C) specifications [20].…”

Improved thermo-oxidative stability of structurally modified waste cooking oil methyl esters for bio-lubricant application

“…In the current study, all the experiments were carried out in duplicate and the average values were reported. Experimental design and statistical analysis were carried out as per earlier reports on waste cooking oil epoxidation and others reports on RSM (Mahalik et al, 2010;Abnisa et al, 2011;Arumugam et al, 2014;Borugadda and Goud, 2014b;Mubarak et al, 2014).…”

“…Several advanced technological routes have been adopted to solve the problems related with plant oils in lubricant applications. Following are the possible alternatives to enhance the performance properties of vegetable oils as bio lubricants such as; genetic modification (Smith et al, 2007), additive treatment (Sharma et al, 2008), selective hydrogenation of unsaturated sites (Cermak et al, 2006), transesterification (Bokade and Yadav, 2007;Kleinaite et al, 2014) and chemical modification (Sharma et al, 2008;Li and Wang, 2015) i.e. structural modification by epoxidation reaction.…”

Response surface methodology for optimization of bio‐lubricant basestock synthesis from high free fatty acids castor oil

“…Currently, plant seed oil/vegetable oil-derived renewable products have been gaining much importance to replace the conventional source of energy due to their depletion at a faster rate [1,2]. In addition, the use of fossils has stimulated the search for eco-friendly alternatives to conventional resources.…”

“…Above all, renewable materials could meet the principles of green chemistry in terms of easy degradation and lower toxicity [4]. Moreover, the plant oils offer a wide number of advantages discussed by various technocrats [1,2,4]. In this regard, lubricants are one of the areas, which demand an alternative to the conventional lubricant basestocks due to diverse environmental issues reported by many researchers [5,6].…”