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Enhancing Lubrication Characteristics of Soybean-based Oils as a Multifunctional Biobased Lubricant (Funding Agency: North Dakota Soybean Council, Research Collaborator: Agricultural Research Service Laboratory, USDA, PA, USA)

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Mineral oil-based lubricants have been used conventionally for long time even though their by-products are significantly harmful to the environment. Bio-based lubricants are necessary for promoting and keeping secure environmental and health conditions while carrying out essential lubrication operations. Vegetable oils are non-toxic, environment-friendly, renewable, and biodegradable resources that can be an alternative to mineral oils, as mineral oils are non-renewable, limited, and non-biodegradable. Vegetable oils have the potential to be used as the base stock for these lubricants when blended with proper additives. Consequently, environment-friendly lubricants are gaining interest world-wide. Our research aims to formulate lubricating oil from regular and high oleic soybean oil for automotive, aerospace, and UAV applications.

Research Products:

Conference presentation:

  • Investigating the influence of novel chemical modification process on enhancing the tribological behavior of high oleic soybean oil, 2023, STLE Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, USA.

  • Exploring the Additive Compatibility and Tribological Behavior of Regular and High Oleic Soybean Oil, 2024, STLE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Journal article:

  • Investigating the impact of a newly developed chemical modification technique on improving the tribological properties of high oleic soybean oil, 2024, Sustainable Energy Fuels, 8, 1314-1328, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SE01526B

  • Exploring the Additive Compatibility and Tribological Behavior of Regular and High Oleic Soybean Oil, 2024, Frontiers (under review)

  • Analyzing the Effect of Isopropylation on Regular and High Oleic Soybean Oils: A Lubrication Behavior Perspective, 2024, Green Chemistry (under review)

Research Leads: Piash Bhowmik
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