DEVELOPMENT OF LUBRICANTS FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCE: AN APPROACH TOWARDS VALUE ADDED PRODUCT FROM VEGETABLE OIL

摘要

The sector of biofuels, specifically bio lubricants, has been emerging rapidly in many developingrncountries as a means of “modernizing” and providing greater access to clean liquid fuels while helping to addressrnenvironment, energy security and global warming concerns associated with petroleum fuels. Vegetable oils play arnmajor role in developing bio based lubricants as they are derived from renewable resources. Additionally vegetablernoil has the inherent lubricity which makes it suitable for its use as lubricant. In the present paper a non-traditionalrnvegetable oil, Karanja oil (Pongamia Pinnata), has been tailored chemically and made it fit for the lubrication purposernas grease as well as lubricating oil form. The lubricant formed from the biomass was evaluated for its practicalrnapplication purpose and the results were compared with petroleum based product. Hence a comparative study on usernof bio based product against petroleum based product has been done is a very applicable way.