Trimethylolpropane trioleate as eco-friendly lubricant additive

• Main Authors: Lee, Chiew Tin, Lee, Mei Bao, Siti Hartini, Hamdan, William Chong, Woei Fong, Chong, Cheng Tung, Hedong, Zhang, Allan Chen, Woei Loon
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2022
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/45554/1/Trimethylolpropane%20trioleate%20-%20Copy.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/45554/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221509862100197X; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jestch.2021.09.014
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Approximately 17.9% of fuel energy is used to overcome engine friction in passenger cars with engine frictional losses further broken down into losses along hydrodynamic (40%), elastohydrodynamic – due to pure sliding motion (40%), mixed (10%) and boundary (10%) lubrication regimes. Therefore, to as...