Green Science Alliance makes bio-based biodegradable lubricant from waste cooking oil and plant-based ingredients
Environmental problems such as climate change, global warming, deforestation, extinction of species, water shortage, etc., due to the explosion of human population are becoming increasingly severe worldwide. The increasing amount of CO2 and plastic pollution is also a severe environmental problem that is causing adverse effects.
One of the goals for Green Science Alliance Co. Ltd. is to replace all petroleum-based chemicals with plant biomass-based alternatives. For example, it has developed plant biomass-based tableware, bottles, film, film-bags, nail cosmetics, nail tips, cosmetic containers, 3D printed furniture, coating materials, paint, glue, toothbrushes, ball point pens, cellulose fibers, plasticizer, etc.
Green Science Alliance has developed a lubricant from plant-based ingredients and waste cooking oils.
Schematic image of the manufacture of waste cooking oil and plant ingredients-based lubricants.
Industrial lubricant is an important material to reduce friction between object surfaces in mutual contact so that heat generation can be suppressed when surface movement causes friction. It also has the function to transmit forces, eliminate contaminants and debris from the surfaces, protect against wearing, serve as anti-tack coating, prevent corrosion and rusting, and gas sealing etc.
In general, lubricants are made of a majority of base oil and a variety of additives to provide necessary characteristics such as anti-forming, optimized viscosity, anti-oxidant, detergent to keep cleanliness, anti-corrosion, anti-wear, pour point depressants, anti-scuffing effect to provide protective films on sliding metal parts, and friction modifiers in order to reduce friction and wear.
Types of lubricants include mineral oil, synthetic oil, solid lubricants, water-based lubricants, bio-based lubricants and greases.
Under these circumstances, Green Science Alliance made lubricant from waste cooking oil and plant-based ingredients. This environmentally friendly lubricant can be applied as metal cutting fluids, metal rolling process oil, gear oil, sliding surface lubricant, anti-rust oil, engine flushing oil, hydraulic oil for combine harvester, oil for chain saw and bar, among others.
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