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Lubricating machines with mineral-based lubricants have become a major cause of pollution now. To use natural oils for making lubricants instead of petroleum is something mainstream researchers have been looking at for a few decades. Though vegetable oils show excellent biodegradability, their cold flow properties are poor compared to functional lubricants. Biodegradable lubricant oils must have excellent cold flow properties as well as competitive costs in order to be accepted widely as usable base stock to industrially usable lubricants. Cold flow characteristics of natural oils are generally subpar to industrial lubricants. This is one major drawback that limits the usage of otherwise abundant vegetable oil. Though vegetable oils show excellent biodegradability, their cold flow properties are poor compared to functional lubricants. In this present study, three vegetable oils have been synthesized to obtain their estolides, they are coconut, sunflower and karanja oils, to analyze the variations. SPARTAN molecular dynamics software is utilized in parallel to understand the molecular structure of products.
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Maneesh Kumar, P.V., Jagadeesha, T. (2023). Synthesis of Estolides from Coconut, Sunflower and Karanja Oils. In: Bindhu, V., Tavares, J.M.R.S., Talu, S. (eds) Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Inventive Material Science Applications. ICIMA 2023. Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4189-6_5
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