Wear characteristic of RBD palm olein using four-ball tribotester

• Main Authors: Samion, Syahrullail, Yahya, Wira Jazair, Abdul Hamid, Mohd. Kameil, W. N., Fawwaz
• Format: Book Section
• Published: American Institute of Physics 2012
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/19939/; http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4704313
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Palm oil shows a great potential to be used as a lubricant. It is a vegetable oil which is environmentally friendly and has a high biodegradability in comparison to mineral oil. However, the research of the properties of palm oil based lubricant from the industrial point of view has never been widel...