A Comprehensive Review on Palm Oil and the Challenges using Vegetable Oil as Lubricant Base-Stock

Muhammad Arif Dandan; Wan Mohamad Aiman Wan Yahaya; Syahrullail Samion; Mohamad Nor Musa

Authors

Muhammad Arif Dandan School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Wan Mohamad Aiman Wan Yahaya School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Syahrullail Samion School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Mohamad Nor Musa School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

Keywords:

Vegetable oil, Palm oil, Renewable Energy

Abstract

Many researchers have discovered that palm oil and most of the vegetable oils have a potential to be the main sources for environmentally favourable lubricant, due to its properties that showed excellent lubrication performance, biodegradability and also renewability. Poor low-temperature behaviour, low oxidation and thermal stability, and narrow range of available stabilities will create a boundaries of bio-lubricant to be apply as a good lubricant. Bio -lubricant can be used in many types of applicationssuch as automotive transmission fluids, metal working fluids, cold rolling oils, fire resistant hydraulic fluids, industrial gear oils, neat cutting oils and automotive gear lubricants. This review will address the challenge of using vegetable oil as a lubricant base-stock and also the palm oil as a potential lubricant. There are many advantages and disadvantages using vegetable oil as a lubricant that will be discussed in this paper. The aim of this paper also to study the past, current and future of vegetable oil and the use of palm oil as a lubricant.