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Evaluation of Vegetable Oil-Sourced Lubricants for Transition to Green Alternative at Sustainable Energy Solutions for Automotive Industry

Windsor, Ontario

In recent decades, the rising energy needs has concluded in much more lubricant usage. Lubricants play a significant part in decreasing the friction and wear among bustling superficies. They are among the greatest drivers of oil need. The ecological affects arising from the direct petroleum-based lubricants’ entry requires the implementation of bio-sourced lubricants as a perfect option to petroleum-derived lubricants. The bio-sourced lubricants’ primary resources are oils derived from plants. There are numerous compatibilities between petroleum-based lubricants and triglycerides from the view point of physical and chemical features. Because of their non-food competition, less expense, and simple usability, vegetable-sourced oils are a potential option to fossil-sourced lubricants for the fabrication of wide-ranging sector implementations. Thus, the implementation of nonedible oils as a maintainable biobased lubricant source plays an important part in lubricant sectors. In this study, the physicochemical features, molecular structures, and other important lubrication efficiency parameters were researched which is necessary for vegetable oil-sourced lubricant choice. Within the industry standards, this study aims to found the most appropriate vegetable-sourced lubricant base on diverse characteristics present. A table of characteristics is evaluated. Finally, the criterion weighting methodology implemented to the emerging scheme. The implementation of the results from this study provides an opinion of how the criterion weighting modeling can be applied in vegetable oil-sourced lubricants.